Italian opposition demands investigation after hundreds give fascist salute at Rome rally

People gather during a rally to commemorate the slaying in 1978 of two members of a neo-fascist youth group in an attack later claimed by extreme-left militants, in Rome, Sunday Jan. 7, 2024. Opposition politicians in Italy demanded on Monday that Italy’s government explain how hundreds of demonstrators were able to give a banned fascist

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Kenya fourth-largest borrower of World Bank low-interest loans

Signage of the World Bank. File Photo/Pool By Business Daily Africa Kenya has become the fourth-largest borrower from the International Development Association (IDA), the soft loan affiliate of the World Bank, which helps the world’s poorest countries, with a total borrowing of $2.01 billion (Sh316.78 billion at current exchange rates). Latest data from the World

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Somalia Said Deni become the first president to be re-elected in Puntland

Puntland’s presidential election that started this morning in Garowe has just ended. This election, which was very sensitive, has reached the third round, and there are two candidates, Said Deni and Dr. Guled Salah Barre. Deni, who was re-elected again, received 45 votes, while his rival, Dr. Guled Salah Barre, received 21 votes, according to

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Uproar as Nigerian man, 54, ‘marries’ four-year-old girl to ‘save her from death’

A 54-year-old Nigerian man is said to have married a four-year-old girl o December 26, 2023. By The East African The marriage between a four-year-old ‘bride’ and a 54-year-old man in Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa community is a traditional rite to save the child’s life, the girl’s parents have said. After hearing from the child’s parents,

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Somalia’s parliament tablet motion security agreements between Ethiopia and UAE

File Photo Somali Times/President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh, both houses speakers Members of the People’s Assembly of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Somalia have submitted a serious motion related to security agreements that the government has already entered into with Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of

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NTSB says no passengers seated near Boeing 737 MAX 9 fuselage that failed

People sit on a plane next to a missing window and portion of a side wall of an Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which had been bound for Ontario, California and suffered depressurization soon after departing, in Portland, Oregon, U.S., January 5, 2024 in this picture obtained from social media. Instagram/@strawberrvy via Reuters By Reuters The

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As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in

Anton Koen, a former police officer who now runs a private security firm that specializes in tracking and recovering hijacked and stolen vehicles, prepares to go out on patrol east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Experts have warned that the South African police are losing the battle against crime and that has

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Somalia president signed the law of the two houses annulled the agreement between Ethiopia and Hargeisa administration

Photo Somali Times/President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh, both houses speakers The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, has signed the law of the two houses of Parliament that annulled the agreement between the governments of Ethiopia and Hargeisa administration, which was approved by the members of the two houses of the Federal Parliament of Somalia.

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With Mideast in crisis, US’ Blinken meets Turkish president, foreign minister in Istanbul

By Anadolu Agency Facing a Mideast region in crisis and a number of pressing bilateral issues, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, with issues before them including the ongoing carnage in Gaza, final steps to complete Türkiye’s ratification of Sweden’s NATO

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Britain hit by flooding after heavy rain swells major rivers

An aerial view shows properties surrounded by floodwater, in the aftermath of Storm Henk, on an island in the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames, Britain, January 5, 2024. Photographer Toby Melville By Reuters Major rivers across Britain were flooded on Friday after heavy rain, with the government issuing more than 300 flood warnings, travel operators announcing

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