Manila-bound Philippine Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Los Angeles

Photo/Reuters A Philippine Airlines flight bound for Manila suffered an apparent engine failure on Thursday shortly after takeoff from Los Angeles and made an emergency landing, authorities said. All 347 passengers and 18 crew aboard Flight 113, a Boeing Co 777 widebody, are safe, an airline spokeswoman said. Pilots of flight 113 declared an emergency

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Tesla edges into pickup truck market with electric model

Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Cybertruck at Tesla’s design studio Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. Musk is taking on the workhorse heavy pickup truck market with his latest electric vehicle. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) Tesla CEO Elon Musk is taking on the workhorse heavy pickup truck market with his latest electric vehicle.

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UAE in weapons making push as allies restrict sales

Models of guided munitions at the Edge display during the fifth day of Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Christopher Pike/File Photo The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making a push to develop high-tech military hardware that would give it control over critical defense capabilities and lessen reliance on imports.

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Political consensus critical ahead of Somalia election: UN mission chief

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas James Swan, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in Somalia. November 21, 2019 With Somalia scheduled to hold “one-person, one-vote” elections next year, leaders must act now to break the “stalemate” between the central government

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Israel’s Netanyahu charged in corruption cases

In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem. Israel’s Justice Ministry says the attorney general will deliver his long-awaited decision on whether to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of corruption cases.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty, pool, File)

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Saudi coalition shelling kills African migrants in Yemen

Artillery fired by the Saudi-led coalition forces yesterday evening hit a gathering of Somali and Ethiopian migrants in the border district of Monabeh in the Houthi-stronghold province of Saada, resulting in ten deaths and 35 injuries. Yemen Press Agency published preliminary images documenting the scenes of the attack against the African migrants in Al-Raqu market

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Somali Foreign Minister receives a copy of the credentials of Japan Ambassador to Somalia

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, His Excellency Amb. Ahmed Isse Awad, received today at his office in the Ministry in the capital Mogadishu, a copy of the credentials of the new Ambassador of Japan to the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mr. Ryoichi Horie. Amb. The Minister of Foreign Affairs

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Kenya: Pension crisis as 50,000 government staff retire

The retirement of about 50,000 civil servants is burdening taxpayers after the pension bill jumped by 63.03 percent or Sh10 billion in the first four months to October as the Treasury raised the red flag over the rising expense. Treasury data shows that public pension expenses stood at Sh27.8 billion in the four months to

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Trump administration prepares to send asylum seekers to Guatemala

Central American migrants are seen outside their tents in an encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, at the end of the Gateway International Bridge, where migrants sent back under the “Remain in Mexico” program, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), await their U.S. asylum hearings, September 14, 2019. Picture taken September 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo

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Ex-Somali diplomat Almas Elman shot dead in Halane African Union, United Nation base

Mogadishu, Almaas Elman the sister of the renowned human rights activist Ilwad Elman was Wednesday afternoon shot dead in the Halane compound in Mogadishu. The circumstances under which the Almaas was killed remained unclear, but sources said a bullet ripped through a vehicle she was. Sources said . Reports said Almaas Elman was pregnant at

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