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Thousands of red-hatted protesters filled Washington streets Saturday to support Donald Trump‘s baseless claims of election fraud, undeterred by the US Supreme Court‘s rejection of what may have been his last chance to overturn the results. Protesters gather in Washington in support of President Donald Trump on December 12, 2020; they insisted, without evidence, that he had lost the […]

Christmas shoppers have been out in force across the country as Covid infections rise (Pictures: PA/North News and Pictures) High streets have been flooded with shoppers today as people headed out to buy Christmas presents despite fears about rising coronavirus infection rates. With just two weekends left between now and Christmas Day, there were crowds […]

Xi Jinping(China)and  Lien Chan. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday met here a delegation of people from various sectors in Taiwan, led by former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) party Lien Chan. The pursuit of a just cause and people’s common aspirations is unstoppable, said Xi during […]

Jibril Ibrahim is president of the Somali Canadian Cultural Society. (Jibril Ibrahim) nity are calling on Premier Jason Kenney and Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson to more forcefully condemn the hate-motivated attack on two women, wearing hijabs, in a south Edmonton mall parking lot earlier this week. Both Kenney and Iveson condemned the attack on Twitter but Jibril […]

Communications Director Fahrettin Altun (AA Photo)  Ankara has condemned the aggressive stance of Iran toward President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey over the recitation of a poem during a ceremony in Azerbaijan, a statement released Saturday by Communications Director Fahrettin Altun read, stressing that the meaning of the poem has been taken out of context. […]

Essentially, the Ethiopian political crises stems from its old and shifting power structures, which has seen each new power centre imposing its will on others. Ironically, the majority Oromo never came to power until April 2, 2018 when incumbent Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali assumed office Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia Ethiopia is […]

The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC © Andrew Kelly, Reuters The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court and subvert the will of voters. The high […]

People queue at passport control at an airport in Khartoum, Sudan on 14 May 2012 [ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/GettyImages] Sudan on Wednesday withdrew citizenship from 3,548 foreigners granted the nationality by the former regime of ousted President Omar Al-Bashir, the Sudanese Ministry of Interior said in a statement In May 2019, the Sudanese Ministry of Interior announced forming a technical […]

U.S. Africa Command has released airstrike video highlighting the impact of the airstrikes conducted on Dec. 10 that killed eight (8) al-Shabaab explosives experts in the vicinity of Jilib, Somalia. “Al-Shabaab’s continuous attacks demonstrate its willingness to accept high numbers of civilian casualties while advancing operations aimed at undermining security across Somalia,” said U.S. Air […]

SEOUL – The outgoing U.S. point man on North Korea admitted Thursday that the Trump administration had not achieved what it sought with Kim Jong Un, but blamed Pyongyang for squandering the opportunity for progress. Talks over the North’s nuclear arsenal have been stalled since early last year when a summit in Hanoi between President […]