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UK’s Johnson scrambles to regain authority after rebellion

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaks after surviving an attempt by Tory MPs to oust him as party leader following a confidence vote in his leadership, Monday June 6, 2022, in London. By The Associated Press British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was meeting his Cabinet and trying to patch up his tattered authority on Tuesday after

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At UN, country’s internationally recognized name changed from Turkey to Türkiye, says president

By Anadolu Agency At the United Nations, the country’s internationally recognized name has been changed from Turkey to Türkiye, said the Turkish president on Monday. After chairing a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that under the official change, from now on all Turkish state institutions are using the name Türkiye

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UK PM Boris Johnson wins confidence vote with 59% share

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with his Estonian counterpart at 10 Downing Street, London, Britain June 6, 2022. Alberto Pezzali/Pool via Reuters By Reuters British Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a confidence vote on Monday but by a relatively modest margin, seeing off a challenge to his leadership brought by lawmakers within his Conservative

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UAE Ambassador to Somalia non-diplomatic matter to visit the offices of top government officials on a daily basis

UAE Ambassador to Somalia, Somalia’s corrupt president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud Somalia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. Jamal Barrow has strongly criticized the behavior of international ambassadors based in Mogadishu, calling it a non-diplomatic matter to visit the offices of top government officials on a daily basis. In a post on his Facebook page, Jamal Barrow noted

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After ‘partygate’, UK PM Johnson faces confidence vote

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends the National Service of Thanksgiving held at St Paul’s Cathedral, during Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, in London, Britain, June 3, 2022. Victoria Jones/Pool via Reuters By Reuters Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a confidence vote on Monday, after a growing number of lawmakers in the governing Conservative

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Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017

File Photo/Somali Times This article is from African Arguments The election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in September 2012 was heralded internationally as an almost messianic break from the past, an end to Somalia’s never-ending progression of corrupt “transitional” governments and the beginning of a brave new era. Once in office, Hassan Sheikh was feted

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Swedish government hangs in balance as no-confidence vote looms

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson By Anadolu Agency Political crisis in Sweden is threatening to come to a head after Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson warned on Friday that she would resign if Justice Minister Morgan Johansson is voted out of office in a no-confidence vote initiated by the far-right Democrats of Sweden. “The political decisions

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Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee celebrations end with pageant through London

Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant outside Buckingham Palace in London, Sunday, June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. The pageant will be a carnival procession up The Mall featuring giant puppets and celebrities that will depict key moments from

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Putin warns West: Russia will strike harder if longer-range missiles supplied

By Reuters President Vladimir Putin warned the West that Russia would strike new targets if the United States started supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles, the TASS news agency reported on Sunday. If such missiles are supplied, “we will strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting,” Putin was quoted as saying in

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Russia claims West does not allow Ukraine to conduct negotiations with Russia

By Anadolu Agency Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday that the West does not allow Ukraine to conduct talks with Russia. Lavrov accused the West, led by the UK and the US, of turning Ukraine into an instrument of restraining and exhausting Russia. He said in an interview with the public broadcaster of the

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