Car rams into police at Capitol barricade; officer killed

Police officers gather near a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S.

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Somalia borrows more loans from the IMF

Photo/Somali Times Acting Somali Minister of Finance Abdirahman Duale Beyle attended the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, which took place on a long-distance basis. The week-long conference was also attended by all Arab finance ministers, according to a statement from the opening of the conference. After the meeting, Beyle had a

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International community wins arranging Somalia’s 2021 election conference

Photo/Somali Times After recent efforts by representatives of the international community in Somalia, a preliminary meeting will be held tomorrow to discuss the issues surrounding the election of the leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia, regional governments and the Benadir region. Meanwhile, in a statement said from the Somali presidency last night that President

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Train derails in eastern Taiwan, killing 48, injuring dozens

In this image made from a video released by hsnews.com.tw, passengers are helped to climb out of a derailed train in Hualien County in eastern Taiwan Friday, April 2, 2021. The train partially derailed along Taiwan’s east coast Friday, injuring an unknown number of passengers and causing potential fatalities. (hsnews.com.tw via AP) By RALPH JENNINGS

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Farmajo and Fahad Yasin deploys Gorgor troops to Puntland and Galmudug

Photo/Somali Times Somali officials from the Somali Special Forces in Gorgor told Somali Times that hundreds of troops will be deployed in parts of the Mudug region in the coming days. The troops and their vehicles are scheduled to be deployed near Goldogob in the Mudug region. The areas where the troops will be deployed

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SOMALIA’S ELECTORAL CRISIS IN EXTREMIS

Photo/Somali Times By Peter Kirechu Somalia’s federal government careened into deeper political crisis after its mandate expired on Feb. 8 without an agreement to hold long-delayed presidential and parliamentary elections. Days before his term expired, incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, commonly known as Farmajo, launched a failing effort to dislodge a months-long stand-off with federal

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Boris Johnson says vaccine passports will ‘definitely’ be used when international travel resumes

Vaccine passports could play a role in international travel this summer / PA By Luke O’Reilly Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given his clearest hint yet that vaccine passports are likely to be required for international travel – while suggesting they will have a role to play at home as well. His comments came after

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At 1st Cabinet meeting, Biden says team ‘looks like America’

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin listen as President Joe Biden speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s first Cabinet meeting looked

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Met Police investigating claims officer raped two female colleagues but escaped suspension

Police outside New Scotland Yard in London at the beginning of March as people gathered to protest over women’s safety in the capital CREDIT: Yui Mok/PA By Gareth Davies, The male officer was not charged or suspended, but is to face a misconduct hearing, more than three years after the claims were made The Metropolitan

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Pimlico Academy: Headteacher backs down over school’s ‘racist’ uniform policy after student protests

Police attended the protest on Wednesday / PA By Tom Ambrose The school’s principal Daniel Smith also told parents the school would stop flying the Union flag, subject to a review The headteacher at the centre of a row over his school’s “discriminatory” uniform policies has backed down following chaotic student protests. Daniel Smith, the

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