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The Ethiopian Prime Minister says, ‘I will be meeting the leaders of Eritrea and Somalia,’

Photo/ Somali Times Landlocked Country Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is interested to create four ship ports in Somalia. The four ship ports, Berbera, Bosaso, Kismayo and Hobyo brought 9 Navy Ships purchased Ethiopian. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says, ‘I will be meeting with my brothers, the leaders of Eritrea and Somalia.’ Dictator Isaias

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Saudi Arabia to stop funding mosques in foreign countries

Former Saudi minister of justice, Mohammed Bin Abdul-Karim Issa, has announced that his country will stop funding mosques in foreign countries, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. According to the Swiss newspaper, Le Matin Dimanche, Saudi Arabia is to establish local administrative councils for each mosque, in cooperation with the local authorities, in order to hand over

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Pentagon: 34 troops suffered brain injuries in Iran strike

FILE – In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019 file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq. The Pentagon said Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, that 34 U.S. troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries suffered in this month’s Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base, and

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Turkey quake kills at least 21, aftershocks continue – live blog

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 hit Turkey’s eastern Elazığ province on Friday evening, killing at least 21 people and leaving 1,030 others injured, according to the latest update of the country’s disaster agency. The Kandilli Observatory in Istanbul later revised the magnitude of the earthquake as 6.6. Depth of tremor recorded at

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‘We want them out’: Iraq protesters call for US troops exit

Supporters of Iraqi Shia Muslim leader Muqtada al-Sadr protest against what they say is US presence and violations in Iraq [Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters] Thousands march in Baghdad, heeding to call by Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr for an anti-US demonstration. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, after Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr

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Somali American Teens Held At Gunpoint By Cops Reach $170K Settlement

Facebook / CAIR Halimo Sisse, mother of one of the victims, speaks at a press conference Wednesday during which the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced the settlement. The teens feared for their lives after an officer pulled a gun on them at a park in Minneapolis in 2018. The families of

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Explainer: Highest U.N. court can tell states what to do – but not enforce

In ordering Myanmar on Thursday to take immediate measures to prevent atrocities against its Muslim Rohingya minority, the International Court of Justice in The Hague was handing down a binding ruling with no possibility of appeal – and no means of enforcement. It was exercising its power to ordain provisional measures – a restraining order

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Somalia Offers to Take Swedish Islamic State Members from Syria

Photo Credit Reuters Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has offered to take in Swedish-Somalian Islamic State members, stating that he will accept them if European countries will not take them. Kurdish authorities have said that around half of the Swedish woman in the al-Hol prison camp have a Somalian background, a number estimated to be

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Saudi Arabia pledges full support to Greek Cypriot administration

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud expressed full support for the Greek Cypriot administration amid ongoing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean following a meeting with Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday. Greek Cypriot daily Politis cited a statement by the Saudi foreign minister which said, “Saudi Arabia carefully follows ongoing

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Saudi involved in hacking of Amazon boss Bezos’ phone, U.N. report will say

Photo Credit Reuters Two UN officials will report on Wednesday that there is enough evidence suggesting that Saudi Arabia had hacked Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos’ phone and both the kingdom and the United States should investigate, a person familiar with the matter said. The United Nations’ officials plan a public statement asserting that they

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