This undated photo issued by the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday Feb. 14, 2023, shows David Ballantyne Smith, during his meeting with a undercover security service member. A former security guard at the British embassy in Berlin was sentenced Friday Feb. 17, 2023 to more than 13 years in prison for putting U.K. diplomats at “maximum

By Anadolu Agency At least 38,044 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Turkey on Feb. 6, the country’s disaster agency said early Friday. The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes were centered in Kahramanmaras and struck 10 other provinces – Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Hatay, Gaziantep, Malatya, Kilis, Osmaniye, Elazig and Sanliurfa. More

File – Fuses for 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine are prepared to be loaded on a C-17 flight, April 29, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. As the war rages on in Ukraine, the United States is doing more than supporting an ally. It’s learning lessons — with an eye toward a

Mohammed Al Amoudi. Photo credit: olatorera.com By Face2Face Africa Ethiopia‘s richest man Mohammed Al Amoudi has added $111 million to his net worth since the beginning of the year. His net worth is now estimated at $5.57 billion from $5.46 billion on January 1. In 2022, his net worth dropped by $1.25-billion. According to Bloomberg

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