Family attorney hails agreement as ‘largest pre-trial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death case in U.S. history’ The family of George Floyd and the US city of Minneapolis have agreed Friday to a $27 million settlement to end a lawsuit against the city over his fatal arrest. Ben Crump, the Floyd family’s attorney, hailed

Britain’s Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge arrive for a visit to School21, a secondary schools in east London, Thursday March 11, 2021. Prince William has defended Britain’s monarchy against accusations of bigotry made by his brother, Prince Harry, and his sister-in-law, Meghan, insisting the family is not racist. In comments made during a

FILE – In this Nov. 11, 2018, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File) JERUSALEM (AP) — Sara Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister’s wife, was hospitalized Thursday with an appendix infection at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center, the

The internal operations of the African Union Mission in Somalia have come under scrutiny after an audit report flagged payments to soldiers no longer serving the mission, double payments and faulty personal information, pointing to unreliable record keeping and weak controls in the Mission’s system of accountability. The leaked report by Mauritian audit firm PwC

Nuur Mohamud Sheekh during a past event. Somali diplomat Nuur Mohamud Sheekh has been named the spokesman for the regional bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), part of the organisation’s new approach to be reachable. It means Mr Sheekh will be the official spokesperson for the Igad Secretary General Workneh Gebeyehu as well as give

KDF officer in Somalia. Cash reimbursed to Kenya for its troops fighting Al-Shabaab militia in Somalia for the half-year period through December 2020 fell Sh8 billion short of Treasury’s target at a time an audit queried payment to non-existent soldiers. Latest exchequer statistics show grants from African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), funded by European

A suspected mortar attack targeted the offices of United Nations and African Union peacekeeping mission in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday. The offices are located inside the heavily-protected Adan Adde International Airport and the compound houses several western diplomatic missions in Somalia. Security sources told Anadolu Agency by phone that at least three explosions

Hisar-O defends against fighters, helicopters, drones, cruise and air-to-surface missiles Turkey’s medium-range air defense system Hisar-O triumphed tests hitting targets on-point, a top official said Tuesday. “We would like to express our gratitude to all stakeholders who contributed to this project, especially the project partners Aselsan and Roketsan,” Ismail Demir, head of Turkey’s Defense Industries

Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office says a police operation of an unprecedented scale targeting organized crime is taking place across Belgium on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. With thousands of containers reaching Antwerp every day, the Belgian port city is one of Europe’s main ports of entry to Europe for cocaine. Trafficking in the city has led

A Turkish military aircraft carrying a contingent of Somali commandos who had completed their training in Turkey landed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday. Somali Defense Minister Hassan Hussein Haji, Army Chief Gen. Odawa Yusuf Rageh and other senior Somali officials welcomed the troops at Adan Adde International Airport, according to Somali national television.