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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 […]

Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. Copyright Abdel Kareem Hana/Copyright 2024, The AP. All rights reserved Israeli authorities have facilitated a deliberate campaign of forced displacement […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Voting was underway Wednesday in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in a key presidential election that was delayed for two years. Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi, center, casts his vote inside a polling station during the presidential election in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Wednesday, Nov. 13,2024. (AP Photo/Abdirahman Aleeli) more > Local media showed voters waiting in line to […]

Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 31 people in Gaza in the past 24 hours, including 11 casualties at a makeshift cafeteria within an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, medics said. Palestinians mourn by the body of a relative killed in overnight Israeli strikes on the al-Mawasi cafeteria at Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Nov. […]

Russian troops have intensified attacks in multiple sectors of the eastern front, trying to break through Ukraine’s defences in the Donetsk region toward the towns of Kurakhove and Pokrovsk. Copyright Evgeniy Maloletka/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved Russian forces are pushing to break through Ukraine’s defences in the Donetsk region towards the towns of […]

According to the Somaliland National Electoral Commission, more than 1 million registered and eligible voters head to the polls Wednesday to elect their president for the next five years. The flag of Somaliland is seen during a campaign rally in Hargeisa on Nov. 8, 2024, ahead of the 2024 Somaliland presidential election. Three candidates, including […]

Israel launched at least 10 air strikes on south Beirut Tuesday morning, Lebanese state media said, shortly after Israel’s army urged residents of several neighborhoods to evacuate the Hezbollah bastion. Smoke billows over Beirut’s southern suburbs, after an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, on […]