By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Friday said President Donald Trump should not be forced to defend against a defamation lawsuit by the author E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her a quarter-century ago, and that it should be substituted as the defendant. In a filing with the

Credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon/President Donald Trump Hundreds of Somalis have been deported to Somalia since President Donald Trump took office, and a number more were repatriated yesterday. A total of 70 Somalis were flown out of the US state of Minnesota yesterday, the largest repatriation by the United States this month. Mohamoud Muse Hassan, a

Uganda’s leading opposition challenger Bobi Wine walks back to his residence after giving a press conference outside Kampala, Uganda, Friday,Jan. 15, 2021, one day after Ugandans went to the polls. Uganda’s electoral commission says President Yoweri Museveni leads in Thursday’s election with results in from 29% of polling stations. He has 63% of ballots while

File Photo/Somali Times Somali Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Abdirizak Abubakar has accused the Puntland and Jubaland regional governments of not agreeing to hold elections in the country. He ruled out that the government plans to hold a unilateral election, saying that all parties have already agreed on the election and that the government is still

This photo provided by the North Korean government shows missiles during a military parade marking the ruling party congress, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of

Biden has expressed an intention to pursue a foreign policy based on human rights, and has previously criticised both Saudi Arabia and Egypt (AFP) By Middle East Eye Axios reports that Israel plans to lobby the incoming Biden administration against confronting the Gulf countries and Egypt over human rights issues and war in Yemen Israel

Photo/Somali Times Somali police spokesman Sadiq Aden Ali gave more details about the clashes that took place today in the Jazeera beach on the outskirts of Mogadishu between Somali government forces and a militia group he described as bandits. The spokesman said residents had been informed that there was a gang of thugs who were

32 Libyan civil societies have lambasted the “poor performance” of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) following the death of a Somali refugee in Tripoli. The NGOs said in a joint statement that 19-year-old Shuaib Ibrahim had died because of the violations by human trafficking gangs in Bani Walid town and the neglect

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s top court upheld on Thursday a 20-year prison sentence for former President Park Geun-hye on graft charges that led to her downfall, bringing an end to the legal process and for the first time raising the possibility of a pardon. Park became South Korea’s first democratically elected

Emirates airline has suspended a Tunisian pilot for refusing to fly to Israel. Moneem Saheb Tabaa confirmed the suspension on his Facebook page, which he has since closed. “God is [the] only [one] who takes care of me…” said Tabaa. “I do not regret it.” The pilot is suspended pending a formal hearing. As news