Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

  Scenes of hysteria swept Hong Kong Island on Sunday when a man impersonating the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte paid the city an unexpected visit. Dressed in a crisp, white traditional barong tagalog shirt with black trousers and sporting the Presidents’ trademark utilitarian haircut, the 57-year-old drew excited crowds as he greeted the public, which […]

AFP Photo Eight European nations joined the United States in recognising opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president on Monday, heightening the global showdown over Nicolas Maduro’s socialist rule. Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Germany’s coordinated move came after the expiry of an eight-day deadline set last weekend for Maduro to […]

(Reuters) – Tens of millions of Americans braved Arctic-like temperatures on Thursday as low as minus 56 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 49 Celsius) that paralyzed the U.S. Midwest and were blamed for at least 21 deaths. Warmer-than-normal weather was on the way, but that offered little comfort to vulnerable populations such as the homeless and elderly […]

Somali firemen try to extinguish burning cars at the scene of a car bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia Jan. 29, 2019. In Somalia’s northeastern mountains, al-Shabab and Islamic State are at war.  The al-Shabab militant group has scaled up its attacks against pro-Islamic State fighters in the northeastern mountainous Somali region of Bari, experts say. Intelligence […]

John Thys / AFP (file photo) | High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini gives a joint press conference with Iran’s foreign minister after their meeting in Brussels on February 15, 2016. Britain, France and Germany on Thursday launched a trade mechanism to bypass US sanctions on Iran, drawing praise from Tehran […]

“I think Nancy Pelosi is hurting our country very badly by doing what’s she doing and, ultimately, I think I’ve set the table very nicely,” the president said. | Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images   The group of congressional lawmakers tasked with coming up with a bipartisan immigration spending deal has met only once, but President Donald […]

AFP Photo A Chinese engineer was charged with stealing secrets from a stealth self-driving vehicle project at Apple, a freshly unsealed criminal complaint revealed. Jizhong Chen was arrested in January, a day before he was booked on a flight to China where he had applied for a job with an autonomous car company, according to […]

Members of IOM’s Obock team rush to site of Red Sea tragedy to assist Djibouti authorities in search for survivors and victims of Tuesday’s drownings.  Photo. IOM Djibouti—International Organization for Migration (IOM) staff based in Obock, on Djibouti’s Red Sea coast, are reporting Wednesday that a total of 16 survivors have been recovered from Tuesday’s sea […]

EU’s Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif photographed during the nuclear talks [File: Ronald Zak/AP] The European Union will set up a payment mechanism to secure trade with Iran and defy USsanctions after Washington pulled out of the landmark nuclear deal. The proposal of a financial instrument has been a key element in the EU’s strategy to keep […]

IHA Photo Istanbul police Thursday seized some 1,350 kilograms (2,976 pounds) of illegal drugs including heroin and extra-strong skunk cannabis in separate operations across the city. Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya said on Twitter that at least five people were arrested during the large-scale bust. The anti-drug police squad confiscated a total of 850 kg (1,873.92 […]