Farmajo withdrew two-year extension and calls on election September 17 2020 agreement

File Photo/Somali Times The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia Mohamed Hussein Roble issued a statement on the situation in the country. Galmudug and HirShabelle, two of three Federal Member States that have supported President Mohamed Farmajo, have announced that they support the September 17 agreement and urged leaders to return to electoral

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Somali Prime Minister Roble announces ceasefire and talks

Photo/Somali Times Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has called on the opposition in Mogadishu to ceasefire and move for urgent talks. “I call for an urgent meeting to find a solution to the current crisis in Mogadishu. I command the role of civil society in finding a solution to this situation. I call on

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Iran, US warships in first tense Mideast encounter in a year

In an April 2, 2021, photo released by the U.S. Navy, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel cut in front of the U.S. Coast Guard ship USCGC Monomoy in the Persian Gulf. American and Iranian warships had a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf earlier this month, the first such incident in about a year amid

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Tesla posts $438M 1Q profit on strong electric vehicle sales

File – In this Monday, April 5, 2021 file photo, a Tesla electric vehicle charges at a station in Topeka, Kan. With strong sales of its electric cars and SUVs, Tesla on Monday, April 26, 2021 posted its seventh-straight profitable quarter. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) By TOM KRISHER DETROIT (AP) — Charged up by strong sales

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Asian shares wobble ahead of Fed outcome and earnings

A man walks past a stock quotation board at a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Stanley White Asian shares fell and U.S. stock futures were steady on Tuesday as caution ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting and a slew of corporate earnings offset growing optimism about the global economic

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Turkish leader blasts Biden’s ‘unfounded’ remarks on 1915 events

Turkey’s president on Monday denounced US President Joe Biden’s “unfounded” statement on the events of 1915, saying it is “contrary to the facts. Addressing a news conference following a three-hour Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said “US President Biden made a statement that is unfounded, unjust and contrary to the facts

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Iran sentences British-Iranian aid worker to another year in jail

A British-Iranian aid worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, poses for a photo after she was released from house arrest in Tehran, Iran March 7, 2021. She appeared in court on Sunday on a new charge. Zaghari family/WANA/Handout via REUTERS An Iranian court sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in jail, just weeks after she

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Somali special forces clash with militia in Mogadishu

Photo/Somali Times Supporters of Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and those opposed to the extension of his four-year term clashed on Sunday on the streets of the capital, residents said. According to Reuters report. The president signed a law in mid-April extending his mandate for two years, stoking opposition inside Somalia and putting him on

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Iraq Interior Ministry: 82 killed in Baghdad hospital fire

In this image made from video, first responders work the scene of a fire at a hospital in Baghdad on Saturday, April 24, 2021. The fire broke out in the Baghdad hospital that cares for coronavirus patients after oxygen cylinders reportedly exploded late Saturday, officials said. (AP Photo) By SAMYA KULLAB BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s

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Fire extinguished on oil tanker off Syria after suspected drone attack

Smoke rises from a tanker off the coastal city of Baniyas, Syria, in this handout picture released on April 24, 2021. SANA/Handout via REUTERS Syria’s oil ministry said firefighters on Saturday put out a fire on an oil tanker off the Baniyas refinery after a suspected attack by a drone coming from the direction of

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