Erdogan, Trump meet over dinner in French capital

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump chatted for a while on Saturday during a dinner hosted by the French leader. Erdogan arrived in Paris on Saturday at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron to attend the Armistice Day commemorations. The dinner was given by Macron in the honor of

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Eritrea, Ethiopia pledge to respect Somalia’s sovereignty

The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea have pledged to respect the ‘sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence’ of Somalia, following a second tripartite meeting, held in the Ethiopian city of Bahir Dar. In a joint statement issued after the meeting of Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed, Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki and Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo agreed to consolidate

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Jo Johnson says colleagues are considering their position over Brexit

LONDON (Reuters) – Former minister Jo Johnson said some colleagues were “reflecting hard” on whether to quit over Theresa May’s Brexit plan after his dramatic resignation threw the British prime minister’s deal into jeopardy. The junior transport minister, who is the younger brother of former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, issued a searing critique of May’s

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Turkey shared recordings of Khashoggi’s murder with Saudi, US, Germany, France, Britain: Erdoğan

Turkey has given recordings on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday. Turkish sources have said previously that authorities have an audio recording purportedly documenting the murder. “We gave the recordings, we gave them to Saudi Arabia, we

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joint satament of Bahr Dar meeting Between the Leaders of Eithopia, Somalia and Eritrea

The leaders of Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, and President Isaias Afwerki held a series of consultation in Bahr Dar,Ethiopia on November 9-10,2018. The three sides stressed that this their second meeting in as many months, Highlights the historic transformation towards peace and integration in the horn of

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Saudi scholar urges US to review ties with Saudi Arabia

A Saudi scholar urged the U.S. to reconsider its support for Saudi Arabia after the murder of a Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. In an article titled “Why the U.S. Can’t Control MBS [Mohammad bin Salman]” for the Foreign Affair Magazine, Madawi Al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at the Middle East Centre of the London School

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Chinese envoy promises cooperation during meeting with Somalia’s minister of fisheries

Somalia’s Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Resources Abdullahi Bidhan Warsame recently met with Chinese Ambassador Qin Jian to discuss deepening the two countries’ fisheries connections. Warsame said he would be interested receiving Chinese fisheries training and investments in infrastructure such as cold-chain, fish ports, processing facilities, and preparing products for export in exchange for allowing

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Suicide car bombers kill at least 17 near hotel in Somali capital city

Suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of Somalia’s Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 17 people, police said.Guards at Hotel Sahafi and CID officers opened fire after the blasts, police added. Then, about 20 minutes later, a third explosion hit the busy street, witnesses

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Space Force Considered as Ethiopia Overhauls Defense Capabilities

Landlocked nation in talks with nations to build naval base ,Ethiopia to rewrite part of foreign, national security policy, Ethiopia is considering adding a space force to its defense capabilities in a process to modernize the country’s military. The changes are part of broader political and economic reforms Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed began implementing after

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‘Terrorist’ on stabbing rampage shot dead in Melbourne

A Somali man went on a stabbing rampage in the city of Melbourne on Friday after driving a car laden with gas cylinders up on a footpath, where it caught fire, and police said they are treating the attack as terrorism. The man stabbed three people, one fatally, before he was shot by police. He

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