Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Bejiing, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. Shares are mostly higher in Asia with many world markets closed for Christmas holidays. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Global markets edged higher on Thursday though trading was subdued after the Christmas holidays. Chinese markets surged after the government announced a relaxation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office December 15, 2019. Gali Tibbon/Pool via REUTERS Israel’s embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a fresh challenge to his power on Thursday as his Likud party held leadership primaries in the run-up to a national election, the

Photo/ Somali Times Kenya and Somalia are expected to hold a cross-border meeting following the increased terror attacks in Wajir County in the past three months. According to Wajir County Commissioner Jacob Narengo, the county security team will revive joint cross-border meetings between the communities living in Kenya and the bordering Somalia in a scheme

Mohamed Sheikh Zayed The families of opposition politicians in the United Arab Emirates are at risk of losing citizenship and state-provided services after the government withdrew from the family of two insurgents living abroad. Human Rights Watch says the government of the United Arab Emirates has revoked the rules of 19 relatives of two men

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Tunisian President Kais Saied, right, inspect a military honour guard at the airport, in Tunis, Tunisia, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. Erdogan with top Turkish officials is on an unannounced visit to Tunisia to meet Saied. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool) Turkey’s president has met with Tunisia’s president in a

Turkey has been following a new geopolitical strategy by building a defence line from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, and from Libya to Somalia, wrote foreign policy analyst Mehmet A. Kancı for the state-run Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. The new strategy follows the orders Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, he

Bundles of khat (photo credit: SS BY-SA 3.0, by Abalg, Wikimedia Commons) Criminals pay travelers to take suitcases full of leaves abroad, but European countries have increasingly been punishing those they catch Israeli organized crime groups are paying travelers to smuggle khat leaves to European countries, leading to dozens of Israelis being arrested, and some

Senators condemn ‘sham’ trial of Saudi Kingdom, criticize handling of Khashoggi murder case Several U.S. lawmakers have condemned the “sham” Saudi trial and court verdicts over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year in Istanbul. Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a U.S. resident, was murdered after entering the Saudi Consulate in

Credit: Reuters Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media his Mar-a-Lago resort. U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday brushed off North Korea’s warning of a “Christmas gift”, saying the United States would “deal with it very successfully,” amid U.S. concerns that Pyongyang might be preparing a long-range missile test. “We’ll

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, shakes hands wth Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting in Chengdu, China, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. (Lee Jin-wook/Yonhap via AP) Leaders from China, Japan and South Korea reiterated their commitment to ending North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs at a trilateral summit Tuesday that comes against the