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Juan Barreto, AFP | Security forces at the site of an apparent car bomb attack on a police cadet training school in Bogota on January 17. Colombia’s government declared three days of mourning Thursday after at least 21 people died in a car bomb at a Bogota police cadet training academy, and 68 were wounded—the […]

Ms Violet Kemunto. She is reported to be the wife of Ali Gichunge, one of the suspects behind the DusitD2 complex attack in Nairobi on January 15, 2019. PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP One of the terrorists in the attack on a Nairobi business complex was a son of a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier. […]

FILE PHOTO ©  Reuters / Jonathan Ernst ‘ A senior North Korean official, Kim Yong-chol, touched down in Washington DC where he was welcomed by a US envoy, Yonhap reported. He is reportedly in the US to thrash out the details of a new bilateral summit. Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the North Korean Workers’ Party Central […]

Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven (front R) sits next to Green Party co-leader Isabella Lovin after being voted back as prime minister, in Stockholm, Sweden January 18, 2019. (TT News Agency/Jessica Gow/via Reuters) A center-left minority government led by the current caretaker prime minister, Stefan Lofven, was approved Friday by Swedish lawmakers, ending a four-month […]

Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to block the Trump administration from lifting sanctions on a Russian oligarch with deep ties to Vladimir Putin. The effort, a joint resolution of disapproval, would overturn the Treasury Department’s December decision to ease sanctions on companies tied to Oleg Deripaska, who was sanctioned […]

Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed. ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian troops have launched operations against members of a rebel group that signed an agreement to end hostilities with the government last year, an official said on Wednesday. Since the 1970s, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has fought an insurgency for self-determination for ethnic Oromos, the Horn of Africa country’s […]

London’s Heathrow Airport briefly halted flights on January 8 after a reported drone sighting just three weeks after drone sightings caused chaos at Gatwick Airport.Image Credit: AP Dubai: UK airports have asked Dubai for help in tackling its drone problem after runways at London’s Gatwick and Heathrow were both closed in recent weeks due to […]

Jacques Demarthon, AFP | France’s Prime Minister Édouard Philippe (C) and cabinet ministers attend a meeting on the preparation of France for Brexit, Paris, January 17, 2019. France has put in motion a contingency plan to deal with a possible “hard Brexit”, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said on Thursday. This includes €50 million of investments […]

AP Photo Louisville International Airport in Kentucky has been renamed after the city’s legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, where he was born and raised. The Louisville Regional Airport Authority’s board voted Wednesday to change the name to Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The three-time world heavyweight champion died on June 4, 2016 at the age of […]

Fire and smoke rise from the scene of an explosion in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019.An upscale hotel complex in Kenya’s capital came under attack on Tuesday, with a blast and heavy gunfire.AP Photo/Khalil Senosi 21 people were killed in the attack that al-Shabaab say was a revenge for Trump’s policy move The Somali-based […]