Female bomber in Mogadishu mayor’s office targeted UN envoy

Photo (AP) A rare female suicide bomber used in the deadly al-Shabab attack in the office of Mogadishu’s mayor was aiming for the American who is the new United Nations envoy to Somalia and had left the office just minutes earlier, the extremist group and officials said. The death toll in Wednesday’s attack rose to

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Explainer: Competing claims make northeast Asian sea a flashpoint

FILE PHOTO: A Chinese H-6 bomber flies over East China Sea in this handout picture taken by Japan Air Self-Defence Force and released by the Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan July 23, 2019. Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan/HANDOUT via REUTERS/File Photo The wedge of sea between Japan,

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UN Envoy Condemns Attack on Mogadishu Mayor’s Office

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu – The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, James Swan, strongly condemns the suicide attack that took place in the offices of Mogadishu’s mayor today and which has reportedly led to casualties, with the mayor among them. “I deplore this heinous attack which not only demonstrates a violent disregard for the sanctity

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Deaths as bomber detonates in Mogadishu mayor’s office

Photo (AP) A suicide bomber walked into the office of Mogadishu’s mayor and detonated explosives strapped to his waist, killing six people and badly wounding the mayor minutes after a visit from the new United Nations envoy, Somali officials said Wednesday. The attack claimed by the al-Shabab extremist group occurred after the envoy to Somalia,

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Mayor of Mogadishu, others hurt in Somalia suicide blast: relative

Photo/Somali Times A suicide bomb attack on the local government headquarters injured the mayor of Mogadishu and several other Somali officials on Wednesday, a relative of one of the victims told Reuters. No one immediately claimed responsibility but Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab, which wants to topple the U.N.-backed government, regularly carries out such

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Boris Johnson takes control of Brexit as Britain’s new prime minister

Britain’s new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, delivers a speech outside Downing Street, in London, Britain July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Boris Johnson took office as British prime minister on Wednesday after an audience with Queen Elizabeth, a moment that put an avowed Brexiteer in control of Britain’s exit from the European Union for the first

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China warns of war in case of move toward Taiwan independence

Photo/Reuters China warned on Wednesday that it was ready for war if there was any move toward Taiwan’s independence, accusing the United States of undermining global stability and denouncing its arms sales to the self-ruled island. The Pentagon said this month the U.S. State Department had approved sales of weapons requested by Taiwan, including tanks

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Restructuring Deutsche Bank posts $3.45 billion loss

FILE – In this Monday, July, 8, 2019 file photo, a Deutsche Bank sign is seen on the outside of their building in London. Deutsche Bank releases second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, July 24. (AP Photo/Natasha Livingstone, file) Deutsche Bank says it lost 3.1 billion euros ($3.45 billion) in the second quarter as it booked heavy

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Somali and Qatar governments have good relations and they do not interfere in their internal affairs.

Photo/Somali Times A statement from the office of the government of Qatar has said the report published in the New York Times, the government of Qatar, along with this answer. “The Qatar government has always relied on its foreign policy to create a stable and prosperous environment, and do not interfere with the independence and

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Exclusive: Britain wins early European support for Hormuz naval mission

Photo/Reuters France, Italy and Denmark gave initial support for a British plan for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, proposed after Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker, three senior EU diplomats said on Tuesday. The cautious backing at a meeting of EU envoys in Brussels contrasts sharply with

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