Reading terror attack: Libyan suspect sought to travel abroad to join Islamist group, security sources say

© Provided by The Independent The Libyan man arrested in connection with the multiple stabbings in Reading, which left three people dead, had sought to travel abroad to take part in jihad, according to security sources. The suspect, a 25-year-old Libyan asylum seeker called Khairi Saadallah, came to the attention of the security and intelligence

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UK: Police launch murder probe into Reading deaths

Knife-wielding man kills 3, seriously injures 3 others in Forbury Gardens attack, police confirm British police said on Sunday that a murder investigation has been launched into the killings of three people in Reading, England. Confirming in a statement that three others had been seriously injured in the incident that occurred on Saturday, police said

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Blasts kill 7 people in southern and central Somalia

Photo/Somali Times At least seven people have died in two separate bomb attacks in southern and central Somalia in the last 24 hours, police and military officers said on Sunday. In the first incident, two bombs planted in front of the house of a military official in Wanlaweyn town, 90 km northwest of the capital

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‘Our country’: Donald Trump renews racist attacks on Ilhan Omar

Omar hit back at Trump, saying that he – not immigrants – is responsible for the mounting coronavirus death toll in America (MEE/File photo) US President Donald Trump has renewed his racist attacks against Muslim-American Representative Ilhan Omar, telling a crowd of supporters that the congresswoman wants to turn “our country” into her native Somalia.

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How a Somali community took on a Minnesota meatpacking plant to contain a Covid-19 outbreak

Workers at meat processing plants across the US have been particularly vulnerable to Covid-19 By Chidinma Irene Nwoye Six years ago, then 27-year-old Nimo Ibrahim started her new job deboning chickens at Pilgrim’s Pride in Cold Spring, Minnesota. For the young Somali refugee and single mother of three, the job was a lifeline as she

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Somalia health sector under Covid-19 threat

Despite three decades of armed conflict and natural disasters, Somalia healthcare system had been showing signs of recovery courtesy of the private sector and diaspora support. Then Covid-19 struck, infecting some 2,000 people and killing over 70 others. A study by the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies titled Somalia’s Healthcare System: Baseline Study and Human

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Saudi Arabia: Pro-Israel journalist stripped of citizenship for possessing false documents

journalist Hamid Al-Ghabin [Twitter] The Saudi Ministry of Interior has confirmed that journalist Hamid Al-Ghabin was stripped of his citizenship not due to his support of Israel, but for possessing false documents relating to his citizenship. “The person who claimed he is a Saudi citizen who was stripped of his citizenship is Hamid Al-Ghabin,” the

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Aden Duale’s woes deepen as Jubilee Party convenes meeting to discuss his fate

National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale is still a marked man despite surviving a series of Jubilee Party’s purge on errant and disloyal members. Ahead of a parliamentary group meeting scheduled for next week, Duale’s critics in the party have hinted at his imminent removal from the powerful position he has been holding since 2013.

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Kenya plans to reopen border with Somalia

Large-scale fishermen in Lamu County and traders in goods to and from Somalia will soon resume trade after the national government revealed plans to reopen the Lamu section of the Kenya-Somalia border. In June last year, the government closed the border with Somalia, including the Kiunga cross-border point in Lamu to block routes used by

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Trump embraces immigration court fight as election boost

In this June 11, 2020 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion about “Transition to Greatness: Restoring, Rebuilding, and Renewing,” at Gateway Church Dallas in Dallas. Trump says that mail-in voting presents the greatest threat to his reelection hopes and he suggested that legal efforts in several states launched by his allies might

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