The United Nations refugee agency is asking Canada to resettle more refugees from the Horn of Africa, emphasizing the needs of particularly vulnerable Somalis displaced by a decades-long conflict in the war-torn country. Mohamed Abdi Affey, the special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Horn of Africa, is in Ottawa

Saudi dissident Prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al Saud says he expects a coup to be orchestrated against King Salman and his heir, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. “The coming period will witness a coup against the king and the crown prince,” he said while commenting on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi’s is known

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday backed a U.S. call for a cessation of hostilities in the Yemen war, a conflict that has killed at least 10,000 people and brought on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s plight and the role of Saudi Arabia in the war have taken centre stage

European lawyers, human rights activists, academics and journalist have launched an international campaign to demand trial of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for anti-human rights crimes in Yemen and his country. The Arabic-language Khaleej Online news website reported on Wednesday that the activists have recently held a meeting in the Hague to form the

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis has called for a ceasefire in Yemen and the start of peace talks in the next 30 days. We want to see everybody around a peace table based on a ceasefire, based on a pullback from the border and then based on ceasing dropping of bombs, Mattis said Tuesday during

In a controversial announcement just days before hard-fought midterm elections, U.S. President Donald Trump said in comments made public Tuesday he plans to end the practice of granting citizenship to children born in the U.S. to non-citizens. “We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the

Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi deserves a “dignified burial,” so “please hand over his body,” Daud Abdullah, the director of Middle East Monitor, is pleading Saudi authorities. Abdullah spoke to Anadolu Agency before a memorial event in London to remember Khashoggi, organized by not-for-profit press monitoring organization Middle East Monitor and the Al Sharq Forum, an

Far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world’s fourth-largest democracy. With 94 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 56 percent of the votes in the run-off election against left-wing hopeful Fernando Haddad of

As she campaigns for U.S. House, Omar is defending herself against a handful of recurrent controversies, including her marriage and immigration history. The show kept going even after the lights came up at a recent St. Louis Park screening of a documentary that tells the story of state Rep. Ilhan Omar’s historic election as America’s

A man in Florida has been arrested in connection with the suspected mail bombs sent to high profile figures, authorities said Friday morning. The arrest came after authorities responded to two more devices on Friday — one in Florida, the other in New York — pushing the total number of packages found by law enforcement