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An armed member of the militant group al-Shabab attends a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP Photo, File) more > The Pentagon’s war against terror in Somalia was supposed to begin winding down next year, but the number of American airstrikes against al-Shabab targets keeps increasing and the Trump administration’s exit plan seems to […]

E. Jean Carroll talks to reporters outside a courthouse in New York on March 4, 2020. | AP Photo/Seth Wenig  The Justice Department is taking over the legal defense of President Donald Trump in a defamation suit brought by a New York writer who claims Trump raped her in a department store dressing room 25 […]

Testing of one of the world’s leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates has been interrupted after safety concerns have put the latest clinical trial phase on hold. The test vaccine, jointly developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and scientists at the University of Oxford, was considered a frontrunner in the global race to find a safe, effective immunisation that protects […]

Men carry a blast victim after a roadside attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 9, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  At least 10 people were killed and 15 others wounded in an explosion targeting the convoy of Afghanistan’s Vice President Amrullah Saleh in central Kabul early Wednesday, officials said. Saleh, who is the senior of Afghanistan’s two vice […]

Meeting in groups of six will become illegal in England from Monday (Picture: Getty Images) Meeting in groups of more than six people will become illegal in England from Monday as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the UK. The change in law will affect anyone meeting others outside their household in homes, parks, pubs […]

China said the incursion occurred on Monday along the southern coast of Pangong Lake in the area known in Chinese as Shenpaoshan [File: Manish Swarup/AP Photo] China and India have accused each other of firing shots on their flashpoint Himalayan border in a further escalation of military tension between the nuclear-armed Asian rivals. The relationship […]

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced his office would mail absentee ballot applications to every active voter in the state. | AP Photo  Georgia’s top election official said Tuesday that the state has identified as many as 1,000 instances of double voting in this summer’s primary and run-off elections, which saw an influx of […]

The Ras Lanuf Oil and Gas Company in Ras Lanuf, Libya, Aug. 18, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  Libya’s cumulative losses as a result of the oil blockade and the closure of oil wells by putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s militias in the past 234 days have neared $9.5 billion, according to information released by the National Oil […]

MFILE – A picture of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi, is displayed during a ceremony near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, marking one year since his death.   –   Copyright  Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo Five individuals, who were not named, will receive maximum sentences of 20 years in prison. Another received a 10-year sentence and two others were given seven […]

Bolton and Manchester have been put on ‘red alert’ for monitoring in case of local lockdown as infections continue to rise (Picture: SWNS) Manchester, Bolton, Oldham, Salford and Tameside are on high alert after infection rates went above the government’s local lockdown threshold of 50 cases per 100,000 people. Rochdale, which saw a rate of […]