May Sarah Cardinal sits for a portrait outside the Law Courts building in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Cardinal said she was pressured into having her tubes tied when she was 20. (AP Photo/Amber Bracken) By The Associated Press Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists,

Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, attends a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2021. Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina By Reuters Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said on Wednesday that he

By Anadolu Agency China on Wednesday rejected the NATO summit declaration that accused relations between Beijing and Moscow of threatening the “rule-based international order.” In response to NATO’s accusation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that the relations between China and Russia are based on the principles of “non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third

By The Associated Press Concerns are growing that Russia will not extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger, with ships no longer heading to the war-torn country’s Black Sea ports and food exports dwindling. Turkey and the U.N. negotiated the breakthrough accord

By Reuters Police deployed heavily in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Wednesday ahead of expected countrywide protests called for by the main opposition leader against a raft of tax hikes. At least two people were killed last Friday during a first round of demonstrations against the taxes, which are contained in a finance bill signed into

The Halla airline passenger plane change direction suddenly off the runway at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday. Reports indicate that a female passenger suffered a broken neck, while authorities are still uncertain about the cause of the plane’s deviation from the runway. Read: Why is Somalia an unfortunate country? Read: Somalia’s president

File Photo/Somali Times After Saturday’s meeting of the Federal Parliament of Somalia, which was filled with noise, there is increasing noise among the members of the Assembly that there is a ‘serious motion’ against the government. Reports say that members of the People’s Assembly are now carrying out strong activities in the cities of Mogadishu

By The East African The European Union’s battle for influence in East Africa is taking shape with increasing private investment and funding across the region. This follows a €150 billion ($170 billion) pledge for investment pledge made in February last year at the EU-Africa Summit in Brussels, Belgium. While Europe maintains that it is not

By Anadolu Agency Turkish President Erdogan on Monday said he will urge the NATO summit to open a path for Ankara’s EU membership so Turkey paves the way for Sweden’s NATO membership. “Almost all of the NATO member countries are now members of the EU. I am calling out to these countries that have kept

A Russian military instructor training local forces in Central African Republic (Source: COSI Telegram) By The African Exponent For over half a decade, a multi-dimensional organized crime syndicate called Wagner Group has been strategically establishing Russia’s foothold in Africa. Wagner’s operations in Africa range from the legal to the seemingly legal but illegal to the