By Anadolu Agency The French president on Friday vowed that the government will be uncompromising on the overgarment ban in schools. Emmanuel Macron visited a high school in the town of Orange, southern France, where he made comments on the ban on wearing abaya, or qamis overgarments at school. Read: France to ban abaya overgarment

Thomson Reuters members of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division get ammunition to the Abrams tank during an exercise at Mielno range near Drawsko-Pomorskie By Reuters The Biden administration will for the first time send controversial armor-piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, according to a document

File- Fulham owner Mohamed Al Fayed waves to the crowd before the English Premier League soccer match against Tottenham Hotspur at Craven Cottage stadium, London, Nov. 15, 2008. Al Fayed, the former Harrods owner whose son Dodi was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, has died at age 94. His death was announced

By Anadolu Agency Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that “the practical work” on supply of Russian grain to six African countries has already begun. Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Eritrea, Mali, Somalia, and Zimbabwe will each get 50,000 tons of grain free of charge in the coming months, he said at

African Map Photo: Credit Wallpaperaccess By Dr Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad In the spirit of African solutions to African problems, it is upon us all to collectively decide our destiny and abandon the failed notion that we can somehow import our security needs from the west. We only have ourselves, no salvation is coming to our

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, centre, sits with Spain’s acting Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares, left and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at the start of an EU foreign ministers meeting in Toledo, central Spain, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. EU foreign ministers are gathering for a one-day informal meeting in Toledo. (AP Photo/Andrea

By Anadolu Agency Rwanda and Cameroon announced major changes in their security forces Wednesday affecting high-ranking military personnel. In Rwanda, President Paul Kagame retired hundreds of soldiers in a move that followed promotions of a number of young soldiers in the country’s security apparatus and appointments of new generals to head army divisions stationed in

North Korean leader Kim Jong visits the training center of the General Staff Department of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in an undisclosed location in North Korea in this picture released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and obtained by Reuters on August 31, 2023. KCNA via Reuters By Reuters North Korea conducted

Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale By Business Daily Africa Kenya received Sh6.98 billion in reimbursement for its troops fighting Al-Shabaab militia in Somalia in the financial year that ended June, which translates to a 93 percent jump ahead of full withdrawal from the peacekeeping mission in under two years. The refunds from the African Union

Gabon Military Officers. Credit Photo/AFP By Reuters A group of senior military officers in Gabon claimed they had seized power in the early hours of Wednesday, minutes after the Central African state’s election body announced that President Ali Bongo had won a third term. The officers said on television channel Gabon 24 that they represented