January 19, 2023   Iran warned the European Union on Thursday against listing the Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, a day after EU lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to blacklist the powerful force over its role in the repression of protesters and the supply of drones to Russia. Troops from the Revolutionary Guard’s Ground Force attend a manoeuver in ...

  January 19, 2023   Many feel the Ethiopia’s slave-owning traditions, which lasted into the last century, do not align with the country’s modern image of itself A boy carrying firewood near the town of Dalbo in southern Ethiopia, once the site of a slave market. Photograph: Mike Goldwater/Alamy   By Fred Harter | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation   ...

  January 18, 2023   By WAM (Emirates News Agency)   The ministry expressed its sincere condolences to the families of the victims   ABU DHABI – The United Arab Emirates strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a military camp in Hawadli, north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, which resulted in the death of a number of soldiers. In ...

  January 18, 2023   Denys Monastyrskiy and other key officials, as well as several children, among dead after crash in Kyiv suburb The site in Brovary where the helicopter crashed. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images   By Isobel Koshiw in Kyiv and Peter Beaumont | The Guardian   At least 15 people including Ukraine’s interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky, other senior ...

  January 17, 2023   FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony to mark an increase in capacity at a natural gas storage facility in Silivri near Istanbul, Turkey, December 16, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo   By REUTERS   ANKARA – Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 “terrorists” to Turkey before the Turkish parliament ...

  January 16, 2023   CID chief of the Beledweyne Police Station, Jamal Ahmed Jama killed today in Halgan explosion. Photo: Via HOL   By HOL   BELED WEYNE – A car bomb exploded in Hiiraan’s Halgan District, killing the CID Chief of the Beledweyne Police Station, Jamal Ahmed Jama, and injuring two men from local anti-Shabaab clan militia forces ...

  January 16, 2023   Koula, Mali   By Agence France-Presse   DAKAR, SENEGAL – Four gendarmes were killed, and three others injured Sunday after being ambushed in western Mali, a region prone to jihadi attacks, the paramilitary police said. Two police vehicles were torched and two others, equipped with machine guns, were captured by the assailants during the attack ...

  January 15, 2023   Bodyguard also killed at home of one of few female parliamentarians who stayed in Kabul after Taliban takeover A woman looks at a picture on her mobile phone of the former lawmaker Mursal Nabizada, who has been shot dead. Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images   By The Associated Press in Kabul   A former Afghan MP ...

  January 15, 2023   Rescuers gather at the site of a plane crash in Pokhara after an aircraft with 72 people on board crashed on January 15. PHOTO: AFP   By REUTERS   KATHMANDU – At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the country’s civil aviation authority said, in ...

  January 14, 2023   Turkish foreign policy adviser Ibrahim Kalin thinks Russia and Ukraine might soon agree to ‘local ceasefires’ © Ozan KOSE / AFP   By AFP   ISTANBUL – Turkey said Saturday it was ready to push for local ceasefires in Ukraine and warned that neither Moscow nor Kyiv had the military means to “win the war”. ...