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A gunman stormed a Jehovah’s Witness centre in Hamburg, shooting dead seven people before killing himself. Here’s what we know so far. What happened on Thursday night?   Investigators stand in front of a Jehovah’s Witness building in Hamburg. Several people were killed and some injured in shots fired at an event on Thursday evening. […]

Russia launched a mass missile and drone attack across Ukraine in the early morning hours of March 9, killing at least 6 people and injuring at least 7. Numerous energy infrastructure sites were targeted. Emergency service workers on the site of a Russian missile attack in Zolochiv district in Lviv Oblast. (Photo: Lviv Emergency Services […]

Nearly 200,000 people have fled a city in Somaliland, where fighting has seen more than 150 people killed and a hospital shelled. The battle is over one group’s resistance to a colonial-era border. A Camel Corps patrol on the border of British Somaliland in the 1930s. (Photo: Bettmann via Getty) Doctors Without Borders says “the […]

The owner of Russia’s Wagner Group military contractor claimed that Russian troops have extended their gains in the Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut, on Wednesday. Volunteer soldiers fire towards Russian positions close to Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 8, 2023.   –  Copyright  AP Photo Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose troops have spearheaded the fight in Bakhmut, said they have […]

Thirteen people from the terrorist group al-Shabaab and ISIS/Daesh were executed by firing squad in Somalia’s northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland on Wednesday. The executions ordered by a military court took place around 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT) in the cities of Galkayo, Garowe and the state’s commercial capital of Bosaso, simultaneously. MOGADISHU, Somalia The […]

In the case of establishing control over Bakhmut, Russian troops will have an “open road” to other key cities in eastern Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in an interview with CNN, Ukrinform reports. “This is tactical for us… “We understand that after Bakhmut they could go further. They could go to Kramatorsk, they could go […]

Washington (AFP) – US officials have seen new intelligence that indicates a “pro-Ukrainian group” was responsible for the sabotage last year of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, the New York Times reported Tuesday.   Gas leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022 © Handout / DANISH DEFENCE/AFP/File In a cautious report that did […]

Doha, Qatar – Somalia is working closely to restore peace in its northern breakaway region of Somaliland amid heightening tensions between the region’s authorities and local clan forces, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told Al Jazeera. In August last year, a few months after being re-elected for a second time, President Mohamud declared an ‘all-out war’ against al-Shabab [Feisal […]

Ukraine is attending an EU Defense Ministers meeting on Mar. 7-8 in the Swedish capital, where continuing military aid to Ukraine will be discussed. Photo:Ukraine’s Minister of Defence Oleksiy Reznikov (L) and Sweden’s Minister of Defence Pal Jonson (R) visit the Aleris Rehab Station outside Stockholm, Sweden on March 7, 2023, where Ukrainian soldiers receive […]

The United Nations relief official in Somalia on Friday appealed for unhindered humanitarian access to all those in need as clashes between security forces and clan leaders in Las Anod in northern Somalia intensifies. Magatte Guisse, the humanitarian coordinator for Somalia ad interim, said at least 80 people have been killed in the violence in […]