Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Reuters/Photographer Andrej Isakovic By The Associated Press A Saudi court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for allegedly damaging the country through her social media activity, according to a court document obtained Wednesday. It was the second such sentence that has drawn scrutiny of the kingdom

Swedish Social Democratic Party by prime minister Magdalena Andersson. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP) By Anadolu Agency A Swedish-Somali politician has left the ruling Social Democrats party in protest over recent remarks by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, saying the party has become too xenophobic. Saida Hussein Moge criticized Andersson over comments she made last week where

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves from the Red Square tribune during a Revolution Day celebration, in Moscow, Soviet Union, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1989. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Kenya’s Chief Justice Martha Koome By Reuters Kenya’s Supreme Court on Tuesday laid out eight questions it will answer when it rules on this month’s disputed presidential election result, including whether the commission’s website was hacked. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is seeking the presidency for the fifth time, is contesting the result of a

Police arrive to disperse demonstrators in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Credit Photographer/AFP By AFP Eighteen people died Monday after police in Madagascar opened fire on what they called a lynch mob angered at the kidnapping of an albino child, a senior doctor told AFP. Dozens were wounded, some of them seriously. “At the moment, 18 people have

President-Elect William Ruto By Business Daily Africa The new President will first have to get Parliament to approve borrowing limits for the next financial year before considering the budget, in changes aimed at forcing the government to leave within its means. This is after the outgoing National Assembly amended the Standing Orders to require parliament

By Anadolu Agency Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said Monday the country’s nuclear program has become indigenous and arch-foe Israel has been unable to prevent its progress through sabotage, assassinations, and threats. Raisi was addressing a news conference in Tehran, attended by local and foreign media, and coinciding with the first anniversary of his government that

Ben van Beurden, chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell, Photographer Reuters By Reuters Europe could face several winters of gas shortage as a result of the cuts to Russian supplies, Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden told a news conference in Norway on Monday. “It may well be that we will have a number

Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz, left, with his lawyer Daniel Kinzer arrives to a courthouse in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) By The Associated Press Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz returns to a Geneva courthouse on Monday to appeal his conviction on charges of corrupting foreign public officials and

Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda’s dictator’s Yoweri Museveni, Photographer Reuters Uganda’s Commander of Land Forces Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba was this week speaking a different language on the Ethiopian conflict, the result of a trip to Addis Ababa and an apparent lobbying by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government, according to The East Africa