Gunman Payton Gendron reads an apology to the court at sentencing for charges, including murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hate, before Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in Buffalo, N.Y. Gendron, a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket has been sentenced to life in prison

The Grayzone By Ann Garrison As Somalia struggled to hold its first real national elections since the country collapsed in 1991, the US and its allies pushed separatism and undermined democracy so as to plunder the country’s rich resources. An armed conflict is underway between secessionists and unionists in the city of Lasanod, where Somaliland

Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu Agency By Anadolu Agency At least 35,418 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Turkey on Feb. 6, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 tremors last week were centered in Kahramanmaras and struck nine other provinces – Hatay, Gaziantep, Adiyaman, Malatya, Adana, Diyarbakir,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov/Reuters By Reuters The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the U.S.-led NATO military alliance demonstrated its hostility towards Russia every day, and was becoming more and more involved in the conflict in Ukraine. “NATO is an organisation which is hostile to us and which proves this hostility every day,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry

File Photo Somali Times/Flag of Somalia By TeleGeography The National Communications Authority (NCA) has announced that Somali mobile operators have implemented an interconnection agreement to allow end users to call each other seamlessly across different telecoms networks. The agreement, which was signed in December last year, was a result of a series of discussions and

File Photo Somali Times/Somalia’s corrupt president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud By Daily Nation African countries are turning to new-generation banknotes to help curb corruption, runaway inflation and money laundering. From simple alterations like changing colour schemes to complex modifications incorporating embedded security features, central banks in Nigeria, Somalia, and Central African States have demonetised older series

Teodoro (aka Teodorin) Nguema Obiang Mongue, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president and the country’s Vice President By AFP Two homes and a superyacht belonging to Equatorial Guinea’s vice president have been seized in South Africa after a local businessman sued for unlawful arrest and torture, a lawyer said Monday. A high court ordered the

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin speaks during a news conference in Beijing, China March 3, 2022. Phtographer Carlos Garcia Rawlins By Reuters China said on Monday that U.S. high altitude balloons had flown over its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the beginning of 2022, drawing a swift denial from Washington. China’s

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace speaks during a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto in Rome, Italy February 9, 2023. Photographer Remo Casilli By Reuters Britain will review its security following the incursion of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon into U.S.

By Anadolu Agency At least 29,605 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Turkey earlier this week, the country’s disaster agency said on Sunday. Last Monday’s magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in the Kahramanmaras province, affected more than 13 million people across 10 provinces, also including Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay,