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A view of pipelines and a loading berth of the Marsa al Hariga oil port in the city of Tobruk, east of Tripoli, Libya, August 20, 2013. (Reuters Photo)  AFrench navy frigate blocked a tanker belonging to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to the violation of a weapons embargo on Libya, while the tanker […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia Nine health care workers were killed and their bodies dumped along a highway, officials said Thursday. “[Nine] health workers in Gololeey vicinity health clinic were abducted last night by unknown forces. Their bodies have been dumped on the highway near Gololeey. They have been slaughtered all. They were working for Zamzam Humanitarian agency! […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks following a weekly cabinet meeting, May 28, 2020. (AA Photo)  Turkey will lift restrictions on intercity travel and allow restaurants, cafes, parks and sports facilities to reopen from June 1 as it eases restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus outbreak, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday. Speaking after the weekly […]

Military vehicles transport missiles to the site of the THAAD base in the town of Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province.New interceptor missiles were delivered to a US military base in South Korea on Friday to replace worn-out equipment, amid lingering opposition by local residents. The Defense Ministry said it has supported the ground transportation of the […]

Protesters yell at sheriff’s deputies as they block the steps of the Hennepin County Government Center on Thursday night in Minneapolis. Organizers worked to keep protesters from touching the deputies. MINNEAPOLIS — Protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death boiled over Thursday night as protesters gained access to the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct building, […]

Mexican Red Cross’ paramedics rush a patient suspected of being infected with the novel COVID-19 coronavirus into Venados General Hospital, in Mexico City PEDRO PARDO AFP The death toll from the coronavirus spiked again in the United States, and Latin America’s pandemic crisis deepened, as Europe’s re-opening from lockdown grew bolder by the day. Grim figures […]

George Floy pressure is mounting in the US state of Minnesota for prosecutors to bring charges against four Minneapolis police officers over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man. “What we saw was a public lynching without a rope,” said Leslie Redmond, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement […]

Photo courtesy of FBI<p>{/p}<p>{/p} ALEXANDRIA, Va — An Alexandria man was indicted Tuesday on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization in Somalia known as al-Shabaab. Liban Haji Mohamed, 34, was born in Somalia and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. The FBI says Mohamed left the United States in […]

President Donald Trump speaks during a Memorial Day ceremony at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Monday, May 25, 2020, in Baltimore. (AP Photo)  U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a law that has long protected Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet’s Google from being responsible for the material posted by […]

Children wait in lines to receive a meal at a crèche near Cape Town in South Africa, on May 14, 2020. © Rodger Bosch, AFP The economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic could push as many as 86 million more children into poverty by the end of 2020, a joint study by Save the Children and […]