Photo: Credit Reuters By Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) – Does a cancelled gym membership spell financial disaster? That is the type of question British banks are asking as they try to work out whether borrowers owing some 75 billion pounds ($96 billion) in home loans will be good for it when a payment holiday, introduced

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, left, faces murder and manslaughter charges in connection with the death of George Floyd. (Associated Press) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail Wednesday and was released from jail, leading Minnesota’s governor to activate the National Guard

Photo: Credit Facebook Abdirahman Abdishakur said, ‘The independence of Somalia is in question for one reason.’ Wadajir Party leader Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame, an opposition politician, said in an interview with outlet media that Somalia’s independence was in question. Abdirahman Abdishakur based it on presence in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which controls key

Normalising relations with Israel will not leave Sudan exempt from paying off its external debts, a leader in the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) said on Monday. Speaking to the Sudan Tribune, member of the economic committee in the country’s protest movement, Tijani Hussein, said: “Normalising relations with Israel will not exempt Sudan from

The al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab has released two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya and held for a year and a half in neighboring Somalia, officials say. A senior Somali intelligence official told The Associated Press that the doctors were released over the weekend after months of negotiations with their captors. He declined to

Rep. Ilhan Omar By Teresa Gutierrez Before being admitted to the hospital for coronavirus infection, Donald Trump spent the last two weeks on yet another vile anti-immigrant tirade. Both in a policy statement to Congress and on a campaign stop in Minnesota, Trump veered to his campaign cornerstone to send yet another message to his

The French president’s recent claims about Islam amount to a dangerous provocation, Turkey’s president said on Tuesday. “[Emmanuel] Macron’s statement on ‘Islam is in crisis’ in a city where Muslims are the majority go beyond disrespect and are a clear provocation,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a gathering of mosque and religious workers in the Turkish

Kenya’s coffee risks losing its top spot in the world market following its rejection in Japan and South Korea due to high levels of chemical contamination. The chemical levels of Ochratoxin have exceeded the allowable minimum, resulting in rejection at the two countries’ border points. The coffee, which is highly sought after by roasters for

The new Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, center, performs the constitutional oath at the Kuwaiti National Assembly in Kuwait, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Kuwait’s Sheikh Nawaf was sworn in Wednesday as the ruling emir of the tiny oil-rich country, propelled to power by the death of his half-brother after a long

The deputy commissioner of Gedo region, Osman Nur Haji spoke to the Somali Times reports strongly criticized the Kenyan forces in the region, Osman said the Kenya’s crisis in Gedo it had been committing such atrocities for many years. The deputy governor of Gedo region spoke about the kidnapping of Somali civilians by Kenyan forces,