April 09, 2023   Forty-four civilians have been killed by “armed terrorist groups” in two villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border, a regional governor said Saturday. Burkina Faso army officers patrol near a French armoured vehicle parked in Kaya, the capital of Burkina Faso’s north-central region, after people protest to oppose the passage of a large ...

  April 08, 2023   Faisal bin Farhan and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Beijing for talks after Chinese-brokered agreement Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (left) and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (right), with China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, in Beijing. Photograph: Ho Str/Saudi Press Agency/AFP/Getty Images   By Amy Hawkins | The Guardian   BEIJING/RIYADH – The ...

  April 07, 2023   Supporters of Capt. Ibrahim Traore parade wave a Russian flag in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Oct. 2, 2022. Just weeks after Burkina Faso’s junta ousted hundreds of French troops, there are signs that the West African country could be moving even closer to Russia, including the mercenary outfit, the Wagner Group. SOPHIE GARCIA, ...

  April 06, 2023   Former Prime Minister, 86, is being treated in the cardiology unit at Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital Silvio Berlusconi in Rome in October. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP   By Angela Giuffrida in Rome | The Guardian   MILAN – The former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with leukaemia, according to reports, a day after ...

  April 06, 2023   The Swedish Migration Agency has put the deportation of an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s “on hold” pending a doctor’s assessment of her health, the woman’s family said on Wednesday. Kathleen Poole and her now deceased husband moved to Sweden 18 years ago to be near her son. Photograph: Angelica Poole   By AFP/The Local   ...

  April 04, 2023   MOGADISHU – Marking the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, the United Nations today reaffirmed its commitment to supporting efforts to rid Somalia of the threat from explosive ordnance. “Whether measured in the number of casualties or the scope of economic impediment, the toll being paid by ordinary Somalis because of ...

  April 02, 2023     Iran has had similar confrontations with US forces in the past. PHOTO: REUTERS   DUBAI – The Iranian navy said it identified and warned off a US reconnaissance plane near the Gulf of Oman on Sunday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. “After the warning, the plane was prevented from entering the country’s skies ...

  January 29, 2023   Tunisia’s parliamentary run-off election on Sunday looked set to replicate the low turnout of December’s first round, with voter participation at just 7.7 percent by the afternoon. Tunisian voters cast their ballots in the second round of parliamentary elections on January 29, 2023. © Fethi Belaid, AFP   By FRANCE 24 with REUTERS   The ...

  January 29, 2023   People walk along Istiklal Avenue, decorated with Turkish national flags after Sunday’s blast killed six and wounded dozens, in Istanbul, Turkey, November 14, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo   By REUTERS   ANKARA – Turkey warned its citizens on Saturday against “possible Islamophobic, xenophobic and racist attacks” in the United States and Europe after its Western ...

  January 28, 2023   FILE – More than 300 Muslim clerics have declared their support for the government’s war against the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which has attacked much of Somalia, including this building in Mogadishu as seen on Aug. 21, 2022. PHOTO: AFP   By Ahmed Mohamed | VOA News   MOGADISHU, Somalia – More than 300 Muslim ...