By Anadolu Agency President Joe Biden said Thursday evening that the US would come to Taiwan’s defense should China attack the island nation, Asked about coming to Taipei’s defense during a CNN town hall, Biden said “Yes, we have a commitment to do that.” He was likely referring to the Taiwan Relations Act, a 1979

Macmillan said ‘patients are entering a system that was on its knees even before the pandemic’. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Media The Guardian By Andrew Gregory Progress in clearing the NHS cancer treatment backlog in England has gone into reverse amid high Covid cases and staff shortages, analysis suggests. With rising coronavirus hospitalisations also now piling

File Photo/Somali Times Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble reached agreements Thursday on most matters that had driven a wedge between them, According to Anadolu Agency reported. “The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo, and the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed

Credit: The Sun Newspaper By Reuters British police on Thursday charged a 25-year-old Londoner of Somali heritage with stabbing a lawmaker to death in a church, a case that has raised fears about the safety of elected politicians. Prosecutor James Cable told the court that Ali Harbi Ali, the son of an ex-media adviser to

Standard Gauge Railway trains at the Port of Mombasa. By Business Daily Africa China-funded infrastructure projects in Kenya worth nearly Sh394.27 billion have been dogged by claims of graft and financial impropriety, the third highest value of tainted ventures being implemented globally under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). A study by a top US

File – In this Friday, June 7, 2019 file photo, Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor walks to the podium to be sentenced at Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis. Noor, a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home will

By Anadolu Agency The Turkish president on Wednesday said Turkey is determined to further its cooperation with Nigeria in every field. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “We are strengthening our cooperation in military defense and security issues with Nigeria, which

By Anadolu Agency North Korea on Wednesday confirmed that it fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) a day earlier, the country’s first underwater test-launch since 2019. The successful test bolsters North Korea’s defense technology and enhances the underwater operational capability of its navy, state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported, along with a series

A currency exchange office worker counts Turkish lira banknotes at an exchange office in Istanbul as Turkey’s lira set a new record low against the dollar (AFP) By Middle East Eye Financial Action Task Force to place Turkey in a grey list of countries which failed to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, according to

Activists take part in a rally after 91 people were shot dead this week in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s ruthless war on drugs in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Dondi Tawatao/File Photo By Reuters The Philippines justice ministry will review thousands of killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs,