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Princess Haya, Dubai ruler’s wife, urges UK court to grant a forced marriage protection order

Princess Haya (right in white) seen for first time since fleeing Dubai as she arrives for High Court hearing Credit: Mark Thomas/i-Image By Steve Bird Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, the youngest wife of the multi-billionaire ruler of Dubai, has urged a British court to protect one of her ­children by granting a forced marriage

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Museveni tips Somali leader on state building

President Museveni. President Museveni last night shared snippets of a private conversation with his Somali counterpart, disclosing that he told President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed the problem with his country is collapsed systems.“I told the Somali President that you can’t have a functional government if the system is not organised,” Mr Museveni said, referring to details

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Pakistani army plane crashes into homes, killing at least 18

People help an injured victim who morns for the lost of his family member at the site of plane crash in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. A small Pakistani military plane crashed into a residential area near the garrison city of Rawalpindi before dawn, killing some people, officials said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) A Pakistani

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Second UK navy ship arrives in Persian Gulf

HMS Duncan to support safe passage of British-flagged ships through Strait of Hormuz, says UK Defense Ministry A second U.K. navy vessel arrived in the Persian Gulf to escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz after a British oil tanker was seized by Tehran last week, London announced on Sunday. The U.K.’s National Defense

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Trump signs Sept. 11 victims’ compensation fund extension

President Donald Trump walks out to speak before signing H.R. 1327, an act ensuring that a victims’ compensation fund related to the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, July 29, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Donald Trump on Monday signed a bill

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Kenya’s undiplomatic behavior toward Somalia signals failure at ICJ

The Kenyan government is pursuing a determined campaign, engaging in outlandish and undiplomatic behavior, and targets Somalia so as to pressure Mogadishu to withdraw an International Court of Justice (ICJ) maritime dispute case it filed against the former in 2014. On Feb. 16, 2019, Kenya expelled Somalia’s Ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Mohamoud Nour and recalled

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Nigeria bans local Shi’ite group after protests

FILE PHOTO: Members of the police head down Banex road during their operation to disperse members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) from a street in Abuja, Nigeria July 23, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde Nigeria’s government has banned a Shi’ite Muslim group whose followers have been holding protests to demand the release of their detained

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Ruling on maritime dispute to severely test Kenya’s soft power

The clock is ticking towards the September 9-13, 2019, tipping point, when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, Netherlands, will decide on the maritime delimitation case filed by Somalia against Kenya on August 28, 2014. Never before in its history has Kenya’s capacity to harness the technologies of soft power to protect

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Israel, US carry out successful test of Arrow-3 missile over Alaska

Israel, US carry out successful test of Arrow-3 missile over Alaska. (photo credit: ISRAEL DEFENSE MINISTRY) By Anna Ahronheim Test comes days after Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile. In face of Iran’s continued development of long-range missiles, Israel and the United States completed a series of tests of the new long-range Arrow-3 ballistic missile

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Top lawyer on brink of making history as the first blind judge

Dr Imaana Laibuta (left) when he appeared for an interview with the Judicial Service Commission in 2016 for the position of Supreme Court judge, When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) announced the list of 11 nominees for appointment as Court of Appeal judges, Dr Kibaya Imaana Laibuta did not receive any special mention apart from

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