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U.S. Sen Brian Schatz said both the error that caused the false alarm of a missile attack on Hawaii and the response to that error were “absolutely unacceptable,” and lawmakers said today both the state House and Senate will hold hearings to get to the bottom of what went wrong. Tweets from Honolulu Mayor Kirk […]

There is no question that Kenya and Somalia are two countries that are deeply linked economically, socially and culturally. Residents walk at the scene of a blast on October 29, 2017, a day after two car bombs exploded in Mogadishu, Somalia. PHOTO | MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB | AFP Both countries would stand to benefit immensely from enduring peace and […]

15 people from the neo-Nazi organisation Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen, NMR) as well as two counter-demonstrators have been taken in by police in Gothenburg. A file photo from September 2017 showing police and NMR demonstrators clashing in Gothenburg. Photo: Adam Ihse/TT One counter-protestor was injured at the demonstration, for which police permission had not […]

China is reportedly planning to boost its military presence overseas with its second foreign naval base in Pakistan. The news comes amid a row between the US and Pakistan, with Washington freezing security funding for Islamabad. FILE PHOTO: Chinese Navy warships © Guang Niu / Reuters After setting up its first foreign naval facility in […]

Austria’s new interior ministry on Wednesday refused to allow a suspected Islamic State group fighter to travel from Georgia to Vienna for emergency surgery, saying it would pose a “major” security risk. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen (R) hands over the letter of appointment to Interior Minister Herbert Kickl during the inauguration ceremony of […]

An emergency session by the African Union mission to the UN was held in New York The African group of ambassadors to the United Nations has demanded an apology from Donald Trump, after the US president reportedly aimed a racist remark at some Caribbean nations and Africa. Trump criticised immigration to his country from El Salvador, Haiti and the African […]

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a crowd in Iran’s western city of Kermanshah on Friday, killing at least four women. In the shooting incident that occurred at 9:53 on Friday morning (local time), the gunmen aboard a car shot the four women to death and escaped away, Tasnim News Agency reported. Judicial authorities in Kermanshah […]

JOHANNESBURG/LUSAKA (Reuters) – African politicians and diplomats labeled U.S. President Donald Trump a racist on Friday after he was reported to have described some immigrants from Africa and Haiti as coming from “shithole” countries. Trump reportedly made the remarks at a White House meeting on immigration on Thursday and a U.S. senator who attended the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In bluntly vulgar language, President Donald Trump questioned Thursday why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” in Africa rather than places like Norway, as he rejected a bipartisan immigration deal, according to people briefed on the extraordinary Oval Office conversation. Trump’s contemptuous description of an entire continent […]

Austria’s new far-right interior minister sparked an outcry Thursday by saying that his government wants to “concentrate” asylum-seekers, employing a word widely associated with Nazi camps. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen (R) hands over the letter of appointment to Interior Minister Herbert Kickl during the inauguration ceremony of the new government in December . […]