MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and four others wounded in a bomb blast in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region on Monday. The target of the blast in Afgoye, located some 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu, was Hussein Jibril, the town’s former deputy mayor, a police officer told […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Nine civilians were killed in landmine explosions in war-torn Yemen over the last three days, a local NGO said on Monday. In a statement, Yemeni Landmine Records said a woman and two children were among the victims. Eight other civilians were injured by the explosions, which took place in al-Hudaydah and […]
Following reports that U.S. President Joe Biden may visit Saudi Arabia during his trip to the Middle East next month, a human rights group on Monday highlighted global calls to release Abdullah al-Howaiti, a young man twice sentenced to death by the country’s courts. Reprieve pointed out in a statement that United Nations experts have ur...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday sparked anger and frustration in the wake of a Texas mass shooting with remarks about gun safety reform that included describing two GOP congressional leaders as “rational.” The president said on the White House lawn that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “a rational Republic...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed six PKK fighters in northern Iraq, the country’s National Defense Ministry said on Monday. The PKK “terrorists” were killed in the Operation Claw-Lock region, the ministry said on Twitter. Turkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock last month to target PKK hideouts in northern Iraq’s Met...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Egypt and the European Union (EU) in the coming weeks to export natural gas to EU countries, the country’s energy minister said on Monday. Karine Elharrar told the Israeli Army Radio that Israeli and European teams are working on setting cooperation between them [&helli...
The tally of unionized Starbucks locations is continuing to swell, with the latest additions coming after pro-unionization votes late last week in Seattle and Birmingham, Alabama. The coffee giant’s CEO “Howard Schultz and Starbucks are getting creamed in union vote after union vote,” labor journalist Steven Greenhouse tweete...
Principals whose schools have directly experienced mass shootings published an open letter Sunday with a desperate message for lawmakers at all levels of government: “Do something. Do anything.” Gun laws in the U.S.—which are lax compared to other wealthy nations—have changed little in the decade since the Sandy Hook Elementary Sch...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was met with boos Sunday as he arrived at a memorial site for victims of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, which sparked a nationwide wave of grief and anger over lawmakers’ persistent—and industry-funded—inaction on gun violence. “We need change, governor!” yelled one member of a crowd gathered...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s best-known peace activist Abdullahi Mohamed Shirwa died in the country’s capital Mogadishu early on Sunday, officials said. He was 72. Tributes pour in the wake of Shirwa’s death after illness as Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble were amon...
