By Anadolu Agency Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed his country’s armed forces late Monday to carry out “peacekeeping operations” in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. The two separate presidential decrees ordered Russia’s Foreign Ministry to conduct negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the “people’s republics” and to formalize the agreements with

The corrupt chairman of the Federal Electoral Commission, Muse Yusuf is corrupt paid by UAE, Kenya-sources say Muse has been meddling Somalia elections and paid by foreign actors. Muse work puppet Said Abdullahi Deni who is a senior informant when it comes to UAE and Kenya, according to our sources inside Federal Election Commission told

File Photo Somali Times/Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo have publicly rejected an oil revenue sharing deal signed by the Petroleum Minister Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed and coastline exploration. On Saturday, Petroleum Minister Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed announced that Somalia had signed a production sharing agreement with Coastline Exploration Ltd (‘Coastline’), a US

A helicopter flies over troops during the joint military drills of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus at a firing range in the Brest Region, Belarus February 19, 2022. Vadim Yakubyonok/Belta/Handout via REUTERS By Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed in principle to a summit over Ukraine, the

Turkiye’s defense chief met with his German counterpart and Somalia’s foreign minister on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference in the German city on Saturday. National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and Christine Lambrecht discussed bilateral, regional, and global issues, as well as the defense industry and military training and cooperation, said a ministry

By Anadolu Agency French President Emmanuel Macron rejected on Friday Malian authorities’ demand to withdraw French anti-terrorist forces Barkhane and Takuba “without delay” from Malian territory. “We have announced the re-articulation of the device and it will be applied in good order to ensure the security of the UN mission and all forces deployed in

An image posted on Twitter by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights shows Princess Latifa and Michelle Bachelet in front of Chaussée d’Antin – La Fayette metro station in Paris By Middle East Eye The UN human rights chief met in private with the daughter of the emir of Dubai on

Kimberly Potter. Pool via REUTERS By Reuters A Minnesota judge on Friday sentenced former police officer Kimberly Potter to two years in the fatal shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, a lighter sentence than the roughly seven years in prison sought by prosecutors. Potter, 49 — who mistook her handgun for

Fighter jets of the Russian and Belarusian air forces fly in a joint mission during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills in Belarus, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Russia has deployed troops to its ally Belarus for sweeping joint military drills that run through Sunday, fueling Western concerns that Moscow could use the exercise to attack

File – A woman walks past the Trump Building in New York’s financial district, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Mazars USA LLP, the accounting firm that prepared former President Donald Trump’s annual financial statements, says the documents “should no longer be relied upon” after investigators said they found evidence he and his company regularly misstated the