Mohamad Hanad Abdi from Somalia arrives at a court in Mytilene, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The Somali migrant serving life in prison for people smuggling appeared in court Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he

Supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, outside Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 8, 2023. Photographer Ueslei Marcelino By Reuters Supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court, in a grim echo of the U.S.

File. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron attend a national memorial ceremony for Hubert Germain at the Hotel des Invalides, Friday Oct.15, 2021 in Paris. A group of “atypical journalists,” on the autism spectrum, got France’s 45-year-old president to talk about himself with unusual and illuminating candour in a televised interview this

By Anadolu Agency A 6-year-old student is in police custody after he shot and wounded a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia on Friday, according to police. “The teacher’s injuries are believed to be life-threatening. The investigation remains ongoing,” the Newport News Police Department said in a statement. No students were injured

Kenya President William Ruto with leaders from other East African countries in different occassions. By The East African Kenya’s President William Ruto has not always been seen as having a strong foreign and regional policy. But, 100 days into his first term, he can count several achievements: He has met with every head of state

Photographer Somali Times/Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud By The Associated Press Somalia’s government claimed Saturday that the al-Shabab extremist group has for the first time asked to open negotiations, amid a military offensive the government has described as “total war.” There was no immediate statement by al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-affiliate that for well over a decade

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir. Photographer Jok Solomun By Reuters Six journalists in South Sudan have been detained over the circulation of footage showing President Salva Kiir appearing to wet himself at an official event, the national journalists union said on Saturday. The footage from December showed a dark stain spread down the 71-year-old president’s

By Anadolu Agency Overcoming holdouts from his own ranks, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was elected as speaker of the US House of Representatives on a historic 15th round of voting early Saturday, in what became the longest contest in 164 years. He fell one vote short on the 14th ballot, but in the 15th and

Marine Corps Times By Zamone Perez U.S. Africa Command conducted more than a dozen airstrikes in Somalia in 2022 in its counterterrorism operations against al-Shabab and aiding the Somali government, an increase of more than 30% over the previous year. Some in Congress, however, have scrutinized AFRICOM operations, claiming inaccurate counts of civilian casualties and

By The Associated Press Gianluca Vialli, the former Italy striker who helped both Sampdoria and Juventus win Serie A and European trophies before becoming a player-manager at Chelsea, has died. He was 58. The Italian soccer federation confirmed Vialli’s death on Friday. Vialli announced in 2018 that he had overcome a year-long battle with pancreatic