MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia has accused Kenya of violating its sovereignty after its southwestern neighbor invited a representative of the breakaway Somaliland region for a diplomatic briefing in the capital Nairobi. Somalia’s ambassador to Kenya, Mohamoud Ahmed Nur, protested the presence of the Somaliland flag and represent...
The U.S. administration has asked Israel to avoid escalation or taking unilateral steps against Palestinians ahead of a planned visit by President Joe Biden. Biden will be visiting the region next month, Israeli media reported Thursday. Haaretz reported U.S. Assistant Secretary to State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf urged Israeli offic...
The global halal ingredients market is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 4.9% from its current value of over $327 billion. It is projected to be valued at more than $436.2 billion by 2032. Though Muslims are a minority in North America and Europe, they make up a growing proportion of […]
The U.K. government on Friday formally approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges, a decision that human rights groups condemned as a dire threat to journalism worldwide. Assange, who has been detained in a high-security London prison since 2019, is expected to appeal the move by...
Thursday’s public hearing of the House January 6 committee focused largely on former President Donald Trump’s futile attempt to convince Mike Pence, his vice president, to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “In today’s hearing, we learned details about how Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence t...
Progressive advocacy groups on Thursday intensified calls for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign or face impeachment after new reporting revealed that his wife, right-wing activist Ginni Thomas, corresponded with former President Donald Trump’s attorney in the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 atta...
Citing the “enormous potential” of Cuban Covid-19 vaccines to tackle enduring global inequities, a group of 26 House Democrats on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to review U.S. policy toward the long-embargoed nation to ensure that sanctions do not impede its international vaccination campaign. “Cuba’s goal of vaccin...
With the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court expected to overturn Roe v. Wade as soon as this month, President Joe Biden is reportedly weighing a number of executive orders to protect abortion rights at the federal level—including the declaration of a national public health emergency—as progressive lawmakers and rights groups push him to act. The Ne...
The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to hike interest rates by 75 basis points—the largest increase since 1994—heightened fears among economists that the central bank’s attempt to tame inflation risks plunging the U.S. economy into recession and inflicting more pain on vulnerable workers. The Fed’s move came on the heels ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday called on the U.S. Senate to protect Americans’ “most private information” by banning data brokers from selling people’s health and location data, which is constantly collected and stored by tech companies. Introducing the Health and Location Data Protection Act as the U.S. Supreme Cou...
