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Warnings of a large air attack threat on the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday come a day after Ukraine used US-supplied ATACMS to strike Russian territory. Copyright AP Photo The US embassy in Kyiv has temporarily shuttered fearing an imminent “significant air attack” in the Ukrainian capital, according to a statement published on its website. “Out […]

The Somaliland electoral commission announced Tuesday that opposition leader Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi “Irro” defeated incumbent Muse Bihi Abdi for the presidency of the breakaway region located on the Horn of Africa. FILE – Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, center, casts his vote inside a polling station during the presidential election in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Wednesday, Nov. 13,2024.t Independent […]

Israeli airstrikes hit a central neighborhood in Beirut early Tuesday, near the Parliament, several embassies and the United Nations headquarters, killing at least five and injuring 31, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry and the National News Agency. Women walk past a damaged building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Zuqaq al-Blat area, […]

The weapons are expected to be used in response to North Korea’s decision to send thousands of troops to Russia in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to one of the sources. Copyright Screenshot from AP video 4534131   By Euronews with AP Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoken after a long-awaited decision came from Washington […]

As a bomb descended on a multi-story apartment building in Beirut’s Tayouneh area Friday, hundreds of onlookers gathered in the street at a traffic roundabout several hundred meters (yards) away. Smoke and flames erupt from a building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Tayouneh, Beirut, Lebanon, November 15, 2024. Hassan Ammar/AP Among them was an […]

Two Somali pirate leaders have been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for their role in kidnapping and holding an American journalist for ransom. File imagePublished Nov 14, 2024 3:05 PM by The Maritime Executive Abdi Yusef Hassan, 56, and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed, 43, were arrested in the U.S. in 2018-19. Federal prosecutors charged them […]

Tel Aviv is using starvation as a method of war in Gaza, U.N. says Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special U.N. committee said Thursday, accusing the country of “using starvation as a method of war.” Palestinians inspect the damage following Israeli shelling at a camp housing internally displaced […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield, and the country’s army chief warned that his troops are facing “one of the most powerful offensives” by Moscow since the all-out war started more than two years […]

washington — Polls have closed across Somaliland after presidential elections, and it appears Wednesday’s voting across the breakaway region has gone smoothly. People queue to cast their votes during the 2024 Somaliland presidential election at a polling station in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Nov. 13, 2024. The Somaliland National Electoral Commission (NEC) said polls closed across the […]