WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has reauthorized the deployment of US forces to Somalia, the White House announced on Monday in a major policy reversal conducted at the Pentagon’s request. Former US President Donald Trump pulled roughly 700 American troops out from the east African country during the final month of his presid...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – Authorities in Southern California say a man who opened fire at a church on Sunday, killing one and injuring five others, was a Chinese immigrant motivated by hate against Taiwanese people. Police say 68-year-old David Chou entered the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods, 46 miles (74 kilometer...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged the Democratic National Committee to ban super PAC money from the party’s primary process as special interest groups and billionaires pour money into elections in the hopes of defeating progressive candidates across the U.S., including Summer Lee in Pennsylvania and Nida Allam in North Carolina. ̶...
WASHINGTON (AA) – In a move to reverse Trump-era restrictions, the Biden administration on Monday announced a series of measures to loosen some policies on Cuba. In a statement, the State Department said the US will facilitate family reunifications by reinstating the Cuban Family Reunification Parole (CFRP) Program and authorize charter ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – A total of 264 Ukrainian soldiers, including 53 seriously wounded personnel, have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the port city of Mariupol, the Ukrainian General Staff said early Tuesday. The garrison in Mariupol has completed its designated combat mission and the Supreme Military Command ha...
DOUALA, Cameroon – At least five people have been arrested in N’Djamena, Chad’s largest city and capital, following sporadic but violent protests against France over its alleged backing of the country’s military junta, the government said Monday. The Wakit-tamma coalition, a civil society group, held an authorized demonstrati...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Allies of Lebanese group Hezbollah appear to have suffered losses in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Lebanon, early results have shown. Unofficial results showed that Hezbollah and its Shiite ally Amal Movement have retained their seats in the 128-seat parliament. Hezbollah ally, the Free Patriotic Movement, however, won ...
BRUSSELS – The EU has announced €25 million (approximately $26 million) in humanitarian aid for vulnerable Palestinians in occupied West Bank. The financial assistance aims to counterbalance the rising energy and food prices exacerbated by the war in Ukraine that adds on the top of the economic crisis in the West Bank and Gaza, the […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The United Nations and Somalia’s neighbors have congratulated Hassan Sheikh Mohamud- the new president of Somalia- announcing their commitment to work with the new administration. Mohamud has been elected president on Sunday May 15 after he received 214 parliamentary votes, defeating outgoing President Mohamed ...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Doctors in Saudi Arabia have successfully separated Yemeni conjoined twins after a “complicated” 15-hour operation. The baby boys, Yussef and Yassin, were “conjoined in several organs”, and some 24 doctors were involved in the operation to separate them. Yemen has been wrecked by a brutal se...
