A man’s bag explodes in a supermarket in Beirut, Lebanon September 17, 2024 in this screen grab from a video obtained from social media. Social Media By Reuters Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told

People stand near the destroyed road by the Biala Ladecka River in the aftermath of flooding in Ladek Zdroj, Poland September 16, 2024. Photo/AP By The Associated Press Exceptionally heavy rainfall pounding Central Europe has prompted deadly flooding in the region, with four new deaths reported Monday in Poland, three in the Czech Republic and

Servicemen march during the Victory Day military parade, which marks the 79th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, Russia’s term for World War II, on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2024. Photographer Cao Yang By Xinhua News Agency Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree to increase

Tens of thousands of African asylum seekers seen demanding Israel to recognize their asylum requests, stage a protest against the Israel’s immigration policies and asylum regime in 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel. By Anadolu Agency The Israeli government is luring around 30,000 asylum seekers from African countries for permanent residency in the country if they

Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a suspect named by news organizations as Ryan W. Routh as the FBI investigates what they said was an apparent assassination attempt in Florida on Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump By Reuters Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on

The Deputy Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the African Union, Nebiyu Tedla, spoke about a recent statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, regarding Somalia’s support for the Ethiopian Opposition. In a post posted on his social media, Nebiyu Tedla described the statement of Minister Fiqi as a joke and

By Anadolu Agency Venezuela announced Saturday the arrests of six foreign nationals for allegedly plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello confirmed the arrests at a news conference in Caracas and said the three suspects from the US, two from Spain and a Czech national were planning to assassinate Maduro and organize

File Photo/Somali Times By The African Exponent Africa is home to some of the youngest populations in the world, driven by high birth rates and improving healthcare systems. Countries with younger populations often have the potential for rapid economic growth, innovation, and labor force expansion. Here’s a look at the African countries with the youngest

By The East African A civil sector ‘white paper’ on the hopes and aspirations of Africa’s youth across 16 Sub-Saharan states, including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, has shown declining trust in nearly all figures and institutions of authority. The recently published African Youth Survey 2024 by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, a private research institute

File Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, has strongly stated that Somalia will support the separatist movement of Ethiopia, if Ethiopia does not immediately withdraw from the agreement with Hargeisa administration. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017 Read: Somalia Hassan Sheikh’s government is facing a widespread