Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi deserves a “dignified burial,” so “please hand over his body,” Daud Abdullah, the director of Middle East Monitor, is pleading Saudi authorities. Abdullah spoke to Anadolu Agency before a memorial event in London to remember Khashoggi, organized by not-for-profit press monitoring organization Middle East Monitor and the Al Sharq Forum, an

The European Union Naval Force says they have blown up an abandoned boat from which pirates had attempted to hijack a Hong Kong-flagged ship on the Indian Ocean. Suspected pirates shot at the bulk carrier earlier this month, but the attack was unsuccessful. The force says the boat was destroyed to deter further attacks. The

Somalia’s cabinet on Monday approved a budget of 340 million U.S. dollars for the 2018/2019 financial year, which is 65 million dollars more than the previous fiscal year. Finance minister Dr Abdirahman Dual Bayle said the cabinet, which is chaired by Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, noted that 55 percent of the budget will be

LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Philip Hammond held out the prospect on Monday of an end to austerity provided the government secures a Brexit deal with the EU, putting pressure on rebels in the ruling Conservative Party to back Prime Minister Theresa May. Delivering his annual budget speech to parliament, Hammond announced a fall

Saudi Arabia and Israel held secret meetings which led to an estimated $250-million deal, including the transfer of Israeli espionage technologies to the kingdom, Israeli media reported on Sunday, citing an exclusive report by the United Arab Emirate news website Al-Khaleej. Some of the spy systems, which are the most sophisticated systems Israel has ever

A new book about the biography of a former influential minister has been criticized for revealing the secrecy surrounding the health state of the former president of the breakaway northern Somalia territory of Somaliland, an issue that has long remained a mystery to the people in the enclave. The book ‘From the Countryside to the

Far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world’s fourth-largest democracy. With 94 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 56 percent of the votes in the run-off election against left-wing hopeful Fernando Haddad of

President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed on Sunday called for the governors of regional states to come to Mogadishu from attending a consultative forum which would focus on solving their complaints. The president asked the governors to accept his call, observing the common interest of the country, in order to

The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, met with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs  Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi. At the outset of the meeting, the Minister conveyed greetings of Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the President and his wishes of further progress and prosperity to the

No one knows people died, Including a tribal elder died during a street battle which involved in mortar shelling in the centre of the town, 500km west of the Somali capital. Security forces said they were pursuing violent elements that attacked the troops. The two sides used mortars and machine guns, residents said, as the