Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul is seen in this undated handout picture. Marieke Wijntjes/Handout via REUTERS By Ghaida Ghantous Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released from a Saudi prison after nearly three years behind bars, her family said on Wednesday, a case that has drawn international condemnation. Hathloul, 31, was detained in

Training enhances cooperation, interoperability between Turkish, US naval forces, says National Defense Ministry Turkish and US naval forces conducted a joint maritime exercise in the Black Sea, Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. Turkish frigates TCG Turgutreis and TCG Orucreis were part of the drill along with the USS Porter and USS Donald Cook

Gargash served as minister of state for foreign affairs since 2008 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, with Anwar Gargash being removed from his post as a minister of state for foreign affairs. Gargash was appointed an adviser to the UAE president and Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan was appointed as

Political prisoner and journalist Solafa Magdy [maitelsadany/Twitter] Violations are continuing against women in Al-Qanater prison, reports rights organisation We Record, since Amr Hisham took charge as chief of investigations at the prison on 4 February. Earlier this month Hisham forcibly moved detainees Maha, Aya, Riman, Dawlat, and Lua’ya by force from the wing housing political

File Photo/Somali Times By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council called on Somalia’s federal government and regional states Tuesday to urgently resume talks and agree on arrangements to hold elections as soon as possible. A September agreement allows for the president and others to stay in office after Monday’s election

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday elected American jurist Joan E Donoghue as the new president of the UN judicial organ, bringing to an end the term of Somalia’s Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, who has been at the helm since 2018. Donoghue, a member of the ICJ since 2010, will be deputised by Russia’s

The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is pictured as it enters the port in Da Nang, Vietnam, March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo By Se Young Lee Two U.S. carrier groups conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea on Tuesday, days after a U.S. warship sailed near Chinese-controlled islands in the disputed waters, as China denounced

Photo/Somali Times The international community partners in Somalia has pressure, the country’s leadership to revisit the stalled electoral talks ‘urgently’ as the country further plunged into uncertain Monday. The term of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo ends until Somalis elect new leader but Farmajo will still be president according to the Somali constitution. In separate statements,

Police move detained demonstrators in the bed of a pick-up truck to a police station during a protest to demand the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) By EVENS SANON PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Jovenel Moïse announced Sunday that police have

The spy network included former US intelligence workers The United Arab Emirates (UAE) established an electronic spy network that included “former members of the US National Security Agency, with the aim of spying on Qatar”, The New York Times reported. The US daily said the aim of the hacking network was to prove Qatar’s terrorism