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MOGADISHU, Somalia –  A court in Somalia’s breakaway northern territory of Somaliland has sentenced a journalist to two years in prison after he was arrested for meeting Somalia’s new president. Abdimalik Muse Oldon was charged with engaging in anti-national activities, spreading “false” news and disturbing public order. Oldon, an online journalist, was arrested upon his […]

MAR-A-LAGO, United States, April 7 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, pledged on Friday to expand mutually beneficial cooperation and manage differences on the basis of mutual respect. Xi made the two-day trip to the southeastern U.S. coastal town of Palm Beach for the first meeting with Trump, in […]

The body of a plane burned as a result of the US missile attack on an air base in Syria. © Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Sputnik 2.2K The US bombardment of the Syrian airbase only serves to encourage Islamic State terrorists as the base was actively involved in the anti-terrorist campaign, including in Palmyra and Raqqa, […]

MOGADISHU, 7 April 2017 – The Ugandan contingent serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has deployed a new battle group to support ongoing peace and security operations in the country. The newly deployed troops under Battle Group XXI, replaces Battle Group XVIII which has completed the mandatory one-year tour of duty. The […]

Democrats join Republicans in backing military action, but many demand the president spell out a broader strategy. Senator Tim Kaine said Trump’s failure to seek congressional approval violates US law [Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters] Members of the US Congress from both parties have backed President Donald Trump’s cruise missile strikes on Syria, but demanded he develop […]

The international community has strongly condemned the chemical weapons attack. UN is awaiting a detailed report on a chemical weapons attack earlier this week in Syria that killed at least 70 people and injured more than 200 others, media reports said. “We are still receiving information. Full details are still not known,” Under Secretary-General and […]

Capitals, SANA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stressed that the US aggressive attack on Syria would strengthen terrorism and extremism in the region and intensify chaos and disorder in the world. Rouhani, on his Twitter account, called on countries of the world to “oppose such policies which bear destructive and dangerous consequences for the region and the world.” In […]

KARACHI: Seven armed men robbed Somalia’s honorary consulate in Block 5 Clifton in Karachi early Saturday morning. They took two security guards and two staff members, hostage after entering the premises at 3 AM on Saturday, officials told the media. The robbers remained in the consulate for three hours and robbed off four laptops, four […]

Large parts of Drottninggatan remain cordoned off, with traces of the attack still visible early on Saturday morning. Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT A man who was arrested on Friday is thought to be the driver of the truck that crashed into the Åhléns department store, killing four people. He is held by the police suspected of […]

Damascus, SANA – The General Command of the Army and the Armed Forces announced that the US attacked an air base in Syria’s Central Region with a number of missiles. “At 3:42 am today, the United States of America committed a blatant act of aggression targeting one of our air bases in the Central Region […]