UK house prices remain stable apart from London, says Nationwide

UK house prices climbed slowly in September as properties in London continued to see their value decline, according to data released on Tuesday by mortgage lender Nationwide. The building society’s house price index showed 2% year-on-year growth for houses across Britain, roughly unchanged from August’s rate of annual increase and matching the slowest pace of

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Somali Health Minister says it is illegal to trade TB medicines

The Minister of Health of the Federal Government of Somalia, Fowsia Abiikar Nur has a signed letter that prohibits traffickers from selling TB medicines and cannot bring them home. Fowsia said that TB medicines are free and accessible to Somali health facilities and it is illegal to trade. On the other hand, the government hospitals

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Oil prices reach four-year high on Iran sanctions and NAFTA deal

Wall Street kicked off the fourth quarter on a positive note on Monday, as a last-minute deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact helped ease trade concerns. Canada and Mexico accepted more restrictive commerce in the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which will make it harder for global automakers to build cars cheaply in

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Three die after Somalia car bomb strikes EU convoy: police

Three people were killed in a suicide car bombing by Islamist group al Shabaab which hit a European Union armored convoy in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, police and an emergency service worker said. The blast struck the convoy around 12:10 PM local time on Industrial Road, a major thoroughfare in the heart of the

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Somalia car bomb strikes EU convoy, no casualties – police

Mogadishu-A suicide car bombing by Islamist group al Shabaab hit a European Union armoured convoy in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, damaging one vehicle but causing no casualties, police and the Islamists said. A Reuters witness saw men towing their damaged vehicle after the explosion hit its rear end. The armoured vehicles had Italian and

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Saudi Crown Prince arrives in Kuwait for talks

KUWAIT (Reuters) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Kuwait on Sunday, state media reported, amid expectation that he will discuss oil supplies and a Kuwaiti mediation effort to resolve Saudi Arabia’s conflict with Qatar. Prince Mohammed will hold talks with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, state news agency KUNA reported.

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Somali government says it is committed to improving the tourism sector

Mogadishu – Warsheikh District in the Middle Shabelle region in the Somali capital, the Somali Federal Government prepares a tourist destination for the country. The director of the Ministry of Information Ministry of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mr Abdirizaq Abdi Abdullahi, who was part of the federal government who arrived in Warsheikh, said the

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Dubai airport operating as normal after Houthi attack

The Dubai International Airport is operating as normal following an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday. “Air traffic in the UAE is ongoing normally and naturally,” the Civil Aviation Authority said on Twitter. Earlier Sunday, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television said a Sammad-3 drone had carried

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Financial deals herald Somalia’s epic rise from the ashes of war

Somalia’s economy and society are rising, like the proverbial Sphinx, from the ashes of civil war. Mogadishu’s post-conflict economic recovery reflects a savoury mélange of government reforms, investments by Somalia’s new business elite, remittances by the diaspora and new groundswells of international goodwill and financial flows. A new deal for Somalia is in the offing.

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More than 800 dead in Indonesia earthquake

At least 832 people have been killed in an earthquake and a tsunami struck by the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, according to the State Department’s Disaster Management Agency. Many are said to be stranded in collapsed buildings, while the blast is nearing a thousand. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, arrived today on the island of Sulawesi,

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