This photo provided by the French Defense Ministry shows oil leaking from the MV Wakashio, a bulk carrier ship that recently ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius, on Sunday. (EMAE via AP) By Greg Norman Fuel is leaking out of the Japanese ship MV Wakashio Environmentalists in Mauritius, an island country in the

Turkish Naval Forces’s ship, is seen docked in Istanbul, Turkey on 5 October, 2018 [Muhammed Enes Yıldırım/Anadolu Agency] Turkey dispatched a vessel to conduct a seismic survey in a disputed area in the eastern Mediterranean, a move which Greece said was illegal and is likely to heighten tensions between the two NATO allies. The advisory

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, right, who founded local newspaper Apple Daily, is arrested by police officers at his home in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Lai was arrested Monday on suspicion of collusion with foreign powers, his aide said, in the highest-profile use yet of the new national security law Beijing imposed

Turkey has sent medical aid to over 150 countries and six international organizations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. The value of our health investments is better noticed now in the pandemic process,” said Erdogan, speaking at the opening ceremony of health and research centers in Kocaeli University, in Turkey’s northwestern Kocaeli province.

President Ghani’s statement comes after Afghan grand assembly passed a resolution on Sunday morning. Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has agreed to release 400 Taliban prisoners after an Afghan grand assembly, known as the Loya Jirga, passed a resolution to approve the move. The resolution recommending the release of the prisoners was passed on Sunday at

Abdullahi Hashi Nur, a political analyst, said plans to relocate the Amisom base to the Somali regional government which had been pushed back by the Ethiopian government for a long time. In a interview with Kulmiye Radio, Abdullahi Nur said that the base will be a safe heaven for Ethiopian interests in Somalia, and that

In this photo provided by Grégoire Rouxel fuel is in the ocean leaking from a ship, rear right, that ran aground, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in Mauritius. The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a “state of environmental emergency” after a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground offshore days ago began spilling tons of fuel.

United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia reveal interest in going nuclear amid escalating tensions in Middle East Nuclear proliferation is bigger than global warming, the US president said in an interview this week amid reports the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are taking solid steps to go nuclear. If we can do something with

Proposed Egyptian military base in self-declared breakaway territory Somaliland causes regional tension Ethiopia said Friday the relations Egypt wants to establish with territories in the East Africa region must not come at the cost of Ethiopian interests. Addressing a weekly news briefing, Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dina Mufti said, “Egypt as a sovereign country reserves

Pictures circulating on social media suggest Russia may have deployed its S-400 air defence system in Libya, an analyst writing for Forbes said on Thursday. Images posted online appear to show a large radar and vertical missile tubes near Ras Lanuf in eastern Libya. If they are part of Russia’s S-300 or S-400 system, “it