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[PHOTO: COURTESY] Eight Iranian girls who disguised themselves as boys to attend a football match despite an official ban were prevented from entering the stadium, an official was quoted as saying Tuesday Iran argues that its ban on women attending football matches in the same stadiums as men is necessary to protect them from lewd […]

Seoul – The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been assassinated in Malaysia, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday. The agency quoted a Seoul government source as saying Kim Jong-Nam was killed on Monday. The source gave no further details. Officials in Seoul were not immediately available for comment. The 45-year-old […]

ISLAMABAD – Seasoned diplomat Tehmina Janjua on Monday became the first woman foreign secretary of Pakistan as Islamabad aims to improve ties with the United States and defuse tensions with India. Incumbent foreign secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry is set to fly to Washington to replace Jalil Abbas Jilani as ambassador. “The prime minister has been […]

  IN SUMMARY According to Mohammed Dubo, the publisher of Somalia Investor, Mr Farmajo won because he enjoyed popular support among Somalis due to his performance when he served as prime minister from 2010–2011. Other progressive measures that made President Farmajo, 55, popular included fighting corruption at the Treasury, and curbing wastage by Cabinet ministers […]

A court in Russia’s Leningrad region dismissed the case against Choi Myung-bok, a North Korean defector set to be deported for violating migration laws, the Memorial human rights group reported Monday. Choi no longer faces deportation to North Korea, where he would most likely be executed for fleeing the labor camp he was sent to, […]

  Angela Merkel. Photo: DPA Up until recently it seemed a very safe bet that Angela Merkel would win another term as Chancellor in September’s election. But more and more polling suggests otherwise.  The most recent poll by YouGov published on Monday showed that 64 percent of Germans are in favour of having a new […]

Mogadishu, 14 February 2017 – A new battle group from Burundi has arrived in Mogadishu to replace soldiers of the 34th battalion who are rotating out after completing one-year tour of duty in Somalia. The soldiers from the 40th battalion of the Burundi National Defence Force (BNDF), who will serve under the African Union Mission […]

Ahmadreza Djalali is a researcher at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute. Photo: Tomas Oneborg/SvD/TT The Italian government has expressed alarm about the fate of a Stockholm-based academic detained in Tehran for nearly a year and reportedly sentenced to death for espionage. Ahmadreza Djalali is resident in Sweden where he conducts research in disaster medicine at the Karolinska […]

Guterres needs the unanimous support of all 15 Security Council members for appointments of special representatives to conflict areas [Denis Balibouse/Reuters] UN chief says former Palestinian PM Fayyad was ‘the right person for the right job at the right moment’.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has defended his choice to appoint former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad […]

  After nearly six years of operations in Ethiopia, Else Addis Industrial PLC, a Turkish textile company has terminated its operations. Officials confirmed that the factory has been closed in relations with unpaid electric power supply bills that were long-overdue. Sileshi Lema, director general of the Textile Industry Development Institute (TIDI), a state parastatal that […]