Vice President of Sinn Fein Michelle O’Neill arrives to vote at a polling station during local elections in Coalisland, Northern Ireland, May 18, 2023. Photographer Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo By Reuters Michelle O’Neill will become the new leader of Northern Ireland’s regional government on Saturday, the most significant milestone yet in the shift to a new

A satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. A satellite image taken Monday of the Jordanian base targeted by a bomb-carrying drone that killed three U.S. soldiers appears to show damage at the site. The damage can be seen in

Cabinet Secretary for Defence Aden Duale speaks at the Defence Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya on September 26, 2023. Photo/AFP By Xinhua News Agency Kenya on Thursday launched a national peace support operations fund whose goal is to ensure that troops deployed to regional and global hotspots are adequately resourced and equipped. Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden

By Anadolu Agency The Italian Coast Guard rescued 49 migrants attempting to travel from North Africa to Europe after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Lampedusa Island on Thursday. A patrol boat belonging to the Coast Guard intervened and rescued the migrants, which were said to be from Ivory Coast,

By Xinhua News Agency China has remained Africa’s largest trading partner for 15 consecutive years, with bilateral trade reaching a record 282.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2023, a Ministry of Commerce official said on Wednesday. “Economic and trade cooperation is the ballast and propeller of China-Africa relations,” said Ministry of Commerce official Jiang Wei said

File Photo Somali Times/ Somalia corrupt president Hassan Sheikh Transparency International has released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) report, the agency examined 180 countries, each of which was rated out of 100 points. The authors of this report point out that the problem of corruption has not changed much around the world. Read: Why

In this photo released by the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays at the grave of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) By The Associated Press Iran threatened Wednesday to “decisively respond” to

By Xinhua News Agency The African Union Mission in Somalia (Atmis) said it has handed over nine military bases to the Somali government, marking the completion of the second phase of the troop withdrawal from the country. Seven of the nine military bases were handed over Monday at a ceremony held in Mogadishu, the capital

By Anadolu Agency A US F-16 fighter jet crashed in waters off South Korea’s west coast, local media reported on Wednesday. The pilot was rescued after ejecting from the aircraft and he is in stable condition, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. “The jet assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing in Kunsan Air Base, about 180 kilometres

A person walks past the Bank of England in London’s financial district, as Britain struggles with the highest inflation rate among the world’s big rich economies, London, Britain, 17 July 2023. Photographer Rachel Adams/File Photo By Reuters Britain’s government should refrain from making further tax cuts given the long-term strains on the country’s public finances,