Somali NHS scientist wins race claim over ‘paininarse’ tag

A busy hospital ward in the UK. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA The Guardian By Jamie Grierson A senior NHS scientist has won a race claim after her colleague recorded her name as “Paininarse” on a work spreadsheet. Ubah Jama, a biochemist of Somali origin, claimed that she was a victim of numerous acts of racial discrimination

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NATO chief welcomes Sweden’s new terrorist legislation that includes PKK

By Anadolu Agency NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday welcomed Sweden’s new anti-terror legislation which includes the PKK, describing it as a step up in the country’s fight against terrorism. “Turkey has legitimate security concerns and I welcome that Sweden has stepped up in the fight against terrorism, including the PKK, by introducing new

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Israel eyes normalization with Mauritania, Indonesia, Somalia to expand Abraham Accords

File Photo/Somali Times Al-Monitor By Rina Bassist Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is working to normalize ties with Mauritania, Somalia, Niger and Indonesia, in an effort to expand the Abraham Accords that saw Israel’s ties normalized between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco in 2020. A report published Tuesday by Israel Hayom said Cohen

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Somalia’s Al-Shabab recaptures base it lost to military offensive

By Reuters Fighters from Somalia’s Al-Shabab Islamist group on Tuesday overran a military base in the southern Jubaland region that they had lost to the army in January, a Somali officer and a local resident said. Al Shabab, an affiliate of Al-Qaeda, has come under intense pressure from the military and allied clan-based militias, who

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Russian diplomat claims West actively recruits hackers to carry out operations against Moscow

By Anadolu Agency A Russian diplomat has claimed that the West is actively recruiting hackers to carry out operations against Moscow to allegedly cover its own actions against the country. “We believe that it is no longer a secret to anyone what dictated the methodical attempts of the US and its allies to promote the

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Somali President says he is ready to talk with Al-Shabab

File Photo/Somali Times The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, who gave an interview to Al Jazeera International Television, said that he is ready to enter into dialogue with Al-Shabab terrorist group. President Hassan Sheikh has set conditions for reconciliation with Al-Shabab, the conditions that the president did not mention the Al-Jazeera interview he gave.

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Inquest Highlights Abuses in Canada’s Immigration Detention

Central East Correctional Centre in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, February 10, 2021. Kawartha 411 By Human Rights Watch A coroner’s inquest into the 2015 death of Abdurahman Hassan, a refugee from Somalia, has brought to light shocking details about Canada’s immigration detention system and abusive conditions in provincial jails. In response, 40 organizations have renewed their

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Billionaire Issa brothers’ EG Group sells $1.5 billion in property in bid to slash debt burden

Zuber and Mohsin Issa / PA Evening Standard By Simon Hunt EG Group, which runs hundreds of petrol stations in the UK as well as the Leon fast food brand, said it had sold 415 store assets in the US to property company Realty Income, in a deal which will see it lease the assets

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Saudi Arabia deposits $5 bln in Turkey’s central bank – statement

Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan/Reuters By Reuters Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement with Turkey to deposit $5 billion in the country’s central bank through the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), the fund said on Monday. Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan announced his country’s intention to make the deposit

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Illegal fishing by foreign ships in Somalia

File Photo/Somali Times The Ministry of Fisheries of Somalia said that evidence received from the fisheries monitoring center shows that many fishing vessels from foreign countries are fishing illegally in Somali waters. The ministry said the evidence indicates that the vessels have been operating in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) since January 2023. “This represents

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