Maldivian police officers secure the area following a blast in Male, Maldives, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Maldives’ first democratically elected president and current Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed has been injured in a blast Thursday near his home and was being treated in a hospital in the capital, police said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sharuhaan) The Maldives president

File Photo/Somali Times The Federal Government of Somalia has announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with Kenya. Somali Deputy Minister of Information Abdirahman Yusuf Sheikh Al-Adala recently addressed the media and read out a statement from the Somali government. ”Joint communiqué on the resumption of diplomatic relations between Somalia and Kenya.” The Federal Government of

A view over the City of London looking at the Bank of England, right, from the 59th floor of 22 Bishopsgate in London, Thursday, April 1, 2021. When the pandemic struck, about 540,000 workers vanished from London’s financial hub almost overnight. The area known as “the City” became a ghost town as many people began

( Royal British Navy / Handout – Anadolu Agency ) France has accused UK of using new rules to restrict French fishing around Jersey Island in breach of Brexit agreement Britain is sending two Royal Navy ships to Jersey following threats of a French blockade of the island’s main port, Downing Street said Wednesday. A

Photo/Somali Times Under agreement reached late Wednesday, Somali national police set to take charge of security in capital Somalia’s prime minister has welcomed an agreement to remove opposition and security forces from the capital Mogadishu after recent clashes between government forces and soldiers loyal to opposition groups. According to Anadolu Agency report. Under the agreement

Photo/Somali Times Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble and representatives of the international community are meeting in the Afisyoni tent in Mogadishu to discuss the political situation in the country. In particular, the meeting will focus on the political situation in the country, elections and the facilitation of the tasks ahead of the Prime Minister’s

Bobby Edwards (left) beat and tortured Chris Smith into working for him for 5 years. — Left Photo: J. Reuben Long Detention Center | Right Screenshot via WPDE By FRANCIS AKHALBEY The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ordered a White South Carolina restaurant manager to pay $546,000 as restitution to

European Commission Vice Presidents Margrethe Vestager, center, Valdis Dombrovskis, left, and EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton participate in a media conference on the proposal for a Regulation to address distortions caused by foreign subsidies in the Single Market and on the European Industrial Strategy Update at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, May 5,

Women pick tea leaves at a farm. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) overtook the United Kingdom (UK) as the third-largest buyer of Kenyan tea in February, underling the Covid-related upheavals of key target markets. The Tea Directorate data shows that buyers in the UAE snapped up 4.22 million kilogrammes of Kenyan tea in February, toppling

Freedom of press in Egypt – Cartoon [Latuff/Middle East Monitor] Egyptian journalists have criticised the conditions of their imprisonment without trial or investigation in political cases during the era of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Journalist and former head of the Constitution Party, Khaled Dawoud, said he never imagined that expressing his opinion would land him