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Somalia president arrives in Eritrea

Photo/ Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and his delegation has arrived in Asmara. The leaders of Somalia, Eritrea Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali will hold bilateral talks in Asmara. ‘During these meetings, the leaders are evaluating the effectiveness of the measures to ensure

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US embassy in Baghdad hit by missiles

No casualties or material damage reported so far from attacks on heavily fortified Green Zone At least five katyusha rockets landed in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq’s capital, some of which directly struck the U.S. embassy, caretaker Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said early Monday. “This hostile attack on a foreign mission was repeated

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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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