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Rescuers carry away a man who was wounded in a car bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, March 13, 2017. A suicide car bomber detonated near a hotel in Somalia’s capital Monday morning, killing at least six people and injuring four others, police said. The bomber detonated near the Weheliye hotel on the busy Maka Almukarramah […]

The UN is urging the international community to take action to save people in East Africa from “starving to death” Internally displaced Somali people near Mogadishu, March 11, 2017 — REUTERS The al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab is taking advantage of Somalia’s hunger crisis to improve its image and bolster support, even as it has been blamed for destabilizing the African […]

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern. Photo: John Thys/AFP Turkish politicians should be banned from political campaigning across the European Union, Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said Sunday. “A collective EU response to prevent such campaign events would make sense so that individual countries like Germany where appearances are forbidden don’t end up being pressured by Turkey,” Kern […]

King Salman, centre, arrives at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. The Saudi king is on a month-long Asian tour to advance Riyadh’s economic and business interests. Shizuo Kambayashi / AP Photo TOKYO // King Salman and hundreds of business leaders from Saudi Arabia are in Japan for talks on Monday mainly expected to focus on […]

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State fighters remaining in Mosul after U.S. coalition-backed Iraqi forces besieged the city will face death, according to a senior envoy for the international coalition fighting the extremist group in Iraq and Syria. “ISIS is trapped. … Any of the fighters left in Mosul, they’re going to die there,” Brett McGurk said […]

Prime minister Mark Rutte on WNL on Sunday. Photo: WNL screen shot Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte on Sunday described actions of the Turkish government in sending a minister to Rotterdam despite being told she was not welcome as ‘extraordinary’. Minister for the family Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya was stopped from entering the consulate in […]

Japan provided Malaysia with fingerprint data for Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, needed for the investigation into his murder last month at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, sources close to the matter said Sunday. The data was obtained when the Japanese immigration officials detained him in 2001 at […]

File Photo: Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi addresses the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on 23 April (Photo: Reuters) Egypt’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has rejected unanimously a draft bill that would grant the president of the state the right to appoint the heads of the country’s judiciary committees. The opinion of the seven-member council, which […]

Ethiopian police officers surround the site of a landslide at rubbish dump in Addis Ababa as excavators aid rescue efforts on March 12, 2017. Elias Meseret / AP Photo ADDIS ABABA // At least 46 people were killed when a mountain of rubbish gave way at a massive dumping site on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s […]

(Phocalmedia.com) Police had tracked down the suspects and monitored their movements after being notified that they dealt drugs.  Two men suspected of smuggling a huge amount of drugs including Captagon and hashish into the UAE and trying to promote them locally have been detained. The Anti-Narcotic Department at Abu Dhabi Police said it arrested the […]