Johnson calls for UK talks after Scottish Nationalists win

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to the media after Conservative Party candidate Jill Mortimer won the Hartlepool by-election, at Hartlepool Marina, in Hartlepool, north east England, Friday, May 7, 2021. Britain’s governing Conservative Party made further inroads in the north of England on Friday, winning a by-election in the post-industrial town of Hartlepool for

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Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator pushes to recover from cyberattack

Holding tanks are seen at Colonial Pipeline’s Charlotte Tank Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. an undated photograph. Colonial Pipeline/Handout via REUTERS By Reuters Colonial Pipeline, top U.S. fuel pipeline operator, continued work on Sunday to recover from a ransomware cyberattack that forced it to shut down on Friday and sparked worries of a spike

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China says most rocket debris burned up during reentry

File – In this April 29, 2021, file photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, a Long March 5B rocket carrying a module for a Chinese space station lifts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Wenchang in southern China’s Hainan Province. The central rocket segment that launched the 22.5-ton core of China’s newest

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Somalia will be one of the richest countries in the world

File Photo/Somali Times Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud, who was interviewed on ClubHouse, said Somalia could do without foreign financial support. The answer to the question of whether we need financial support is yes, we can,” he said. He added, ”In order to avoid this, Somalis need to understand that we have a very

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Philippine troops drive away armed rebels from public market

Armored personnel carriers make their way along traffic as they augment security forces in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Saturday May 8, 2021. Dozens of Muslim militants occupied a public market overnight in the southern Philippines before fleeing after a tense standoff with government forces, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Ferdinandh Cabrera) Dozens of

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Turkey warns Germany against headscarf ban after new law

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç speaks at a news conference in Ankara, Turkey. (AA File Photo) Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said Turkey expects Germany to implement the newly-passed regulations regarding public servants’ dress code without negatively affecting the Muslim people living in the country. Bilgiç was referring to the newly passed law in Germany,

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Rio de Janeiro drug shootout death toll rises to 28

Policemen aim their weapons during an operation against drug dealers in Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 6, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/File Photo The death toll from a police raid on a drug gang in a poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood on Thursday has risen to 28, civil police said on Friday, the deadliest

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Why Capitalism Is Bad For Public Health Systems in Africa

Health Health services are increasingly being outsourced to the private sector. Ever since African countries were compelled to accept structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and 90s, governments have been averse to social spending. As the years have progressed, African states have become relentlessly neoliberal in their governance approaches, a phenomenon that has had adverse

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The Somali-Kenyan maritime case has nothing to do with restoring diplomatic relations

File Photo/Somali Times Somalia has said it has nothing to do with the maritime case with Kenya, restoring its diplomatic relationship. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will decide the Somali-Kenyan maritime boundary. The move comes after hours of reports circulating on social media that the two countries were reaching an out-of-court settlement, led by

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India sets new global record of 414,188 daily Covid cases

Covid-19 Care Centre in New Delhi on India ( İmtiyaz Khan – Anadolu Agency ) Country’s confirmed infections reach 21.49 million as it battles one of the world’s worst outbreaks India set another global record for daily coronavirus cases Friday, registering over 414,000 infections in the past 24 hours. It marked the second consecutive day

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