Packets containing cocaine which was hidden in boxes of bananas are seen at Malta Freeport, an international transshipment hub on Malta’s southeastern tip, after it was seized by Customs Malta, late Tuesday, June 8, 2021. The customs department in Malta intercepted 740 kilograms (1,630 pounds) of cocaine Tuesday in a record-breaking drug seizure for the

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk / AP By Sean Morrison Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid no income tax in 2007 and 2011, while Tesla founder Elon Musk’s income tax bill was zero in 2018. That’s according to a report from the non-profit investigative journalism organisation ProPublica, which also found that overall the

File- In this Feb. 17, 2014, file photo, Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh listens to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov during their news conference in Moscow, Russia. Saleh blamed U.S. administrations that supported the Tigray People’s Liberation Movement for the last 20 years for the current war in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, saying that blaming

File Photo Somali Times A report released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that Somali troops undergoing military training in Eritrea have taken part in fighting Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The report confirms previous claims by Somali parents, who complained that their sons, trained by the government in Eritrea, had

Sarah Everard went missing as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on 3 March. Photograph: Family Handout/PA LONDON (AP) — A British police officer has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of a woman as she walked home in south London and whose body was found a week later

Family ‘targeted because of their Muslim faith’ by truck driver in Ontario, say police Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his sorrow Monday for the four members of a Muslim family who were killed when a pickup truck driver intentionally plowed into them in London, Ontario. I’m horrified by the news from London, Ontario,” the prime

Railway workers rebuild the track at the track at the site of a train collision in the Ghotki district, southern Pakistan, Monday, June 7, 2021. An express train barreled into another that had derailed in Pakistan before dawn Monday, killing dozens of passengers, authorities said. More than 100 were injured, and rescuers and villagers worked

File Photo/Somali Times The United Arab Emirates Financial Intelligence Agency has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bangladesh’s Financial Intelligence Unit and the Somali Federal Government’s Financial Reporting Center. The purpose of this agreement is part of efforts to exchange financial information and experience, in order to combat financial crime in these countries. The agreements,

Ugandan opposition activists stand in the dock in the general military court martial in Makindye, a suburb of Kampala, on 17 May. Photograph: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters By Jason Burke, Samuel Okiror Roundup of opposition activists took place in May around date of swearing-in ceremony for President Yoweri Museveni. A new wave of repression in Uganda has

Demonstrators protest against the planned Chinese Fudan University campus in Budapest, Hungary, June 5, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo By Anita Komuves Thousands of Hungarians, some of them holding banners declaring “Treason”, protested on Saturday against a Chinese university’s plans to open a campus in Budapest. Liberal opponents of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban accuse him of