General says UK can ‘destroy’ enemy infrastructure

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wanted UK to have “leading, full-spectrum cyber power” Britain’s top cyber general said the UK could “degrade, disrupt, and even destroy” its enemies critical infrastructure in a future conflict, the Guardian reported Friday. Gen. Sir Patrick Sanders, the head of UK strategic command, was quoted by the newspaper as

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UK’s first Somali-born female mayor resigns from the Labour Party

Photo: Credit Islington Council By Calum Fraser Outgoing mayor delivered emotional speech before breaking off from Zoom call THE UK’s first Somali-born woman to become mayor has quit the Labour Party claiming “oppression” and “discriminatory behaviour”. Councillor Rakhia Ismail announced this morning that she had “resigned from the Labour Party” after she gave an emotional

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Sadiq Khan has failed our community, says Labour councillor in wake of stab death

Photo: Credit Reuters Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. REPRESENTATIVES of Islington’s close-knit Somali community have criticised Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in the wake of the killing of a teenager in Holloway, claiming people feel that he has “abandoned” them. Kamal Nuur, 18, was stabbed to death in Goodinge Close, off North Road, last week,

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Terror probe opened after 2 wounded in Paris knife attack

French soldiers patrol after four people have been wounded in a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Friday Sept. 25, 2020 in Paris. A police official said officers are “actively hunting” for the perpetrators and have cordoned off the area including the former Charlie Hebdo offices after a suspect package

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Kenya, Chinese space station deal alarms US

Photo: Credit AFP SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. Kenya has been thrust into the centre of a fresh row between the US and China over a multi-billion dollar space programme that Washington says will put

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Ilhan Omar compares Trump to Somali dictators and fears he will not leave office peacefully

Photo: Credit Pinterest President Donald Trump and Rep. Ilhan Omar. By Emma Colton Rep. Ilhan Omar compared President Trump’s administration to Somalian dictatorships she witnessed growing up. “As a little girl, I witnessed what happens when you do not have a peaceful transfer of power,” the Minnesota Democrat tweeted Thursday. “It leads to instability, violence,

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Suspected extremists abduct 3 non-Muslims in Kenya’s north

Officials in Kenya say three non-Muslim bus passengers were abducted by suspected Islamic extremists in Kenya’s northern Mandera county that borders Somalia. Armed gunmen, believed to be Somalia’s al-Shabab rebels, stopped a bus about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Lafey town and ordered everyone out. The attackers picked three passengers from 54 on the bus

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Why expanding the US drone war to Kenya is a dangerous idea

Photo: Credit Pinterest By Priyanka Motaparthy The U.S. military is seeking new authorities to expand its program of lethal drone strikes into Kenya, in order to target al-Shabab fighters in the region, the New York Times reported last week. The request reportedly comes in response to the January 5 al-Shabab attack on the Manda Bay

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Prime Minister Roble issued a statement after meeting with a Wadajir party leader.

Photo/Somali Times The new Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mohamed Hussein Roble, addressed a special meeting with Abdirahman Abdishakur in his office today. Roble said in a statement that he, the leader of the Wadajir party, had discussed a number of issues, including the 2020/2021 elections. “We had an important meeting today

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Matt Hancock says actual coronavirus cases likely to be as high as 10,000 a day

Health Secretary Matt Hancock (Image: PA) By Danya Bazaraa The Health Secretary said almost 10,000 people a day are contracting coronavirus and called on people to download the newly-released NHS tracing app to “make the country a safer place.” Matt Hancock said almost 10,000 people a day are contracting coronavirus admitting the figure is “too

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