Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during a welcome ceremony in Tehran, Iran, June 12, 2019. Official Iranian President website/Handout via REUTERS Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tehran on Wednesday that Japan wants to keep buying Iranian oil, as tension between

Kasese: After the death of a five-year-old boy who succumbed to Ebola last night, more two patients have been tested positive in the same area along the DR Congo – Uganda border in Kasese district. The World Health Organization today confirmed the death of the five-year-old boy. Immediately after the boy testing positive he was

Yemeni Houthi forces launched a missile strike on an airport in southern Saudi Arabia early on Wednesday which wounded 26 people, the Saudi-led military coalition said. The coalition, which has been fighting the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen, said it would make a “firm” response. A coalition statement, carried on Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV, said a

Photo (AP) With Japan’s prime minister on the way to Tehran for a historic visit, a hard-line Iranian paper published a front page image Wednesday of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear blast — a reference to America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II that underscores the challenge ahead

Uganda has confirmed its first case of Ebola during the current outbreak, a 5-year-old Congolese child who is receiving care after arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. “This is the first confirmed case in Uganda during the Ebola outbreak on-going in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander, U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto made this commitment during a visit to Mogadishu on Tuesday/file U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander, U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto made this commitment during a visit to Mogadishu on

Fighting hatred with hatred The police are doing little to prevent mob attacks The charges sound silly but the consequences are not. One Muslim lady’s crime was to wear a shirt printed with a ship’s helm. Her accusers said it looked like the wheel of dharma, so she must be mocking Buddhism, the religion of

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed reportedly is close with top UAE spy who allegedly ran the businessman Emirati received thousands of dollars a month for intelligence on US policy towards the Middle East, The Intercept says. A businessman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was paid by his country’s intelligence agency to spy on the US

Kenya has closed its border with Somalia in Lamu indefinitely as security operations against Al Shabaab militants intensify. Lamu County Police Commander Mr Muchangi Kioi said the border will only remain open to security officers. The country has also prohibited residents living in the border villages from any cross-border trade. Mr Kioi said that those

Photo/The coal plant site in Lamu Days after the Nation exclusively reported that Kenya signed a lopsided multibillion-shilling deal for the operation of the Standard Gauge Railway, an American think-tank is warning that the taxpayer is being forced into another Sh900 billion debt trap for the Lamu coal power project. FINANCIAL GOOF The Sh900 billion