Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif has warned the United Nations that there will be “consequences” if the US acted against the Iranian oil tankers in the Caribbean. In a letter sent to the UN chief, Antonio Guterres, Zarif said American “piracy” has threatened the “disruption of Iran’s fuel transmission to Venezuela”, adding that the

Tokyo. Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. racked up a loss of 961.6 billion yen ($9 billion) for the fiscal year through March, on red ink related to its Vision Fund investments, including troubled office space-sharing venture WeWork. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. racked up a loss of

Mogadishu: More than 70 business managers who were based in Mogadishu, Al-Shabaab’s calls, sources has said that Al-Shabaab met with owners of various businesses in the capital including clothing, restaurants, hotels, pharmacies, supermarkets, grocery stores and car sales. The meeting took place in Basra Village in Lower Shabelle region, about 30 kilometers north of Mogadishu

Photo/Somali Times The governor of Mudug, a region in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland, was killed with three of his bodyguards in a suicide car bombing on Sunday that was claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab, police said. “A suicide car bomb hit the governor’s car. Governor Ahmed Muse Nur and three of his bodyguards

Du Wei speaks during a news briefing in Kiev, Ukraine August 30, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo JERUSALEM (Reuters) – China’s ambassador to Israel was found dead in his home in a Tel Aviv suburb on Sunday, an Israeli police spokesman said. He did not comment on the cause of death of ambassador Du Wei, who

In this Sunday, May 10, 2020 photo, stockbrokers work at the Tehran Stock Exchange in Iran. The exchange has seen gains of 225% in the last year, with sharp increases even as the country struggled with one of the first serious coronavirus outbreaks outside of China. Encouraged by a government eager to privatize state-owned firms,

Photo/Somali Times The Regional Parliament of Puntland announced that the 46th session of Parliament will open on 15 June, with all members of Parliament informed. The speaker of the Puntland Parliament, Abdirashid Yusuf Jibril, also shared it with MPs on the main agenda of the 46th session, including points similar to that of former Speaker

Army spokesman says Russian-made air defense system, Chinese-made armed drones were destroyed, The Libyan army shot down Sunday another air defense system and a drone of renegade commander Khalifa Haftar southwest of the capital. Libyan military spokesman Col. Mohamed Qanunu said in a statement that airstrikes were carried out against Haftar militias at the Al-Watiya

Saudi activist Loujain Al-Hathloul was arrested by Saudi forces in 2018 [Wikipedia] Marking two years of the detention of prominent female human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia, on Friday, Amnesty International called on King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to release them. In a report published on its website, Amnesty International announced that the female human rights

Photo: Credit UN PARIS (Reuters) – Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 25 years on the run, the French justice ministry said. The 84-year-old, who is Rwanda’s most-wanted man and had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his