United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, at United Nations headquarters in New York. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP) Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at

A photograph appear on the Internet. Dr Abdi Ulusso, the former Somalia Foreign Ministry Director General, said Twitter that he had been fired for submitting the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Kenya in 2009 to the Somali Transitional Federal Parliament. Dr Abdi Ulusso described the memo as a treason. “Sadly, though the same people who

By Anadolu Agency Bloc maintains minimal presence in Kabul to monitor situation, facilitate humanitarian aid EU foreign ministers on Tuesday adopted a document guiding the bloc’s approach toward the Taliban-appointed interim government in Afghanistan. The conclusion officially confirmed the main findings of the EU foreign ministers’ informal meeting hosted by the Slovenian presidency of the

Public Debt Management Office Director General Haron Sirima. By Business Daily Africa Kenya is considering using funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to repay Chinese loans after it dropped an earlier request to defer debt payments. The Treasury says it could use its additional allocation of IMF reserves in Special Drawing Rights (SDR) assets,

French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison hold a news conference as they meet at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Reuters By Colin Packham Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday he will not speak with the French president at the United Nations this week

A man walks past a bank’s electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. Asian shares declined Tuesday, with Tokyo down 2% as worries about heavily indebted Chinese real estate developers weighed on sentiment. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) Associated Press By YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO

A woman walks past a bank’s electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. Shares fell more than 3% in Hong Kong on Monday in holiday-thinned trading in Asia, with both Tokyo and Shanghai closed. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) Associated Press By DAMIAN J.

Credit: Twitter Somalia’s defence team maritime case. The Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, Mahdi Mohamed Guled, has issued a statement announcing the timing of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling in Somalia’s disputed territorial waters. “Praise be to God, I am pleased to share with the Somali people that the International Court of

Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Credit Anadolu Agency. The National Interest By Aykan Erdemir, Varsha Koduvayur Although the extent to which the climate of détente will affect the Horn is not certain, the relative calm offers a unique opportunity for Washington to claim leadership and prevent the kind of violent rivalry that proved disastrous in

A house burns due to lava from the eruption of a volcano in the Cumbre Vieja national park at Los Llanos de Aridane, on the Canary Island of La Palma, September 20, 2021. REUTERS/Borja Suarez Reuters By Borja Suarez The Canary Islands’ first volcanic eruption in 50 years has forced the evacuation of about 5,000