Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a news conference in Islamabad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) By The Associated Press A gunman opened fire at a campaign truck carrying Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday, wounding him slightly and also some of his supporters, a senior leader from his party and police

British Ambassador to Russia Deborah Bronnert arrives at the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters, as activists hold a protest against what Russia’s officials said to be the involvement of British specialists in a Ukrainian drone strike on its Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, in Moscow, Russia November 3, 2022. Photographer Shamil Zhumatov By Reuters Russia summoned

Lisa Osofsky (second right), the SFO director, with Sara Chouraqui, Victoria Jacobson, and Elizabeth Collery, officials who worked on the Glencore case. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA The Guardian By Jasper Jolly Glencore flew cash bribes to officials in Africa via private jet amid “endemic” corruption within the mining company, a London court has heard, in sentencing

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Credit to Photo Anadolu Agency By Reuters Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed sending grain to African countries after Russia said it would resume participation in the Ukraine grain deal. In an interview with Turkish broadcaster ATV, Erdogan

Young recruits wearing blue tracksuits and with their heads shaven are seen at a military camp before they were transferred to Mogadishu’s Damanyo barracks By Middle East Eye In the heart of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, a secret initiative is being carried out by the UAE and Egypt to recruit and train nearly 3,000 young Somali

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Photographer Umit Bektas/File Photo By Reuters Russia is concerned about its security and the obstacles it faces exporting fertiliser and grains, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlu Cavusoglu said on Wednesday, days after Moscow suspended its participation in a U.N.-brokered export deal. Ankara, in talks with Kyiv and Moscow to fully resume

By Anadolu Agency North Korea on Wednesday fired at least 10 ballistic missiles in a single day apparently in retaliation to the ongoing combined air drills by South Korea and the US. According to the South Korean military, Pyongyang also fired its first missile into an area close to the South’s territorial waters since the

Ultra-Orthodox Jews watch their Rabbi Israel Hager votes during Israel elections in Bnei Brak, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Israel is holding its fifth election in less than four years. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Associated Press By Tia Goldenberg Jerusalem (AP) — Exit polls in Israel indicated Tuesday that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies

By Anadolu Agency Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said on Tuesday that 87,000 of 300,000 mobilized people have already been sent to the combat zone in Ukraine. Speaking at a meeting with military chiefs in Moscow, Shoygu said conscripts, who reported to the military service under Russia’s biannual conscription campaign, will not take part in

By The East African The increasing risk of debt distress, widening fiscal and current deficits and limited economic diversification plans in the economies of East Africa, have combined to weaken prospects for growth this year. The African Development Bank forecasts the region’s GDP at four per cent this year, before recovering to 4.7 per cent