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

By The East African The United States has offered a financial reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Maalim Ayman, the mastermind of the January 2020 Al Shabaab attack on the Manda Bay airbase in Kenya. The US Department of State said Washington was looking for anyone who could

File- This Oct. 17, 2019 frame grab from video provided by the Mexican government shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez at the moment of his detention, in Culiacan, Mexico. Mexican security forces were forced to release the son of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman that day after his gunmen shot up the western city of

Kenya’s president William Ruto. Photographer Monicah Mwangi By Reuters Kenya will not default on its debt and plans to ramp up tax collection in the next two years, President William Ruto said on Wednesday. Ruto’s government, which took over in September, has pledged to curb expensive commercial borrowing in favour of cheaper sources like the