January 23, 2021   FILE – Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Aug. 6, 2020.   By VOA News   U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday will send an article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate, Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday, ...

  January 22, 2021   A UN representative said she was greatly concerned by serious allegations from the northern region Thousands have died in the conflict, according to the International Crisis Group. (File/AFP)   By AFP   ADDIS ABABA – The UN says it has received “disturbing” reports of sexual violence and abuse in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region, including of ...

  January 22, 2021   Fadumo Moalim Abdulle poses with 3 of her children, during an interview with the Associated Press in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Jan, 18, 2021. The mother of eight has heard that her twenty year old son, Ahmed Ibrahim Jumaleh is one of the soldiers sent to Eritrea for military training in preparation to fight alongside Ethiopian ...

  January 22, 2021   FILE – Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow in March 2011. (REUTERS)   By REUTERS   WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden will seek a five-year extension to the New START arms control treaty with Russia, the White House said on Thursday, in ...

  January 22, 2021   In this Monday, July 20, 2020 file photo, a container used by police is seen in front of the synagogue in Halle, Germany where a gunman made an attack on Yom Kippur 2019. Millions have been provided to enhance the security of Jewish sites, but some say it is still not enough and also doesn’t ...

  January 22, 2021   FILE PHOTO © REUTERS/Denis Balibouse   By RT News   The US has announced it will resume funding the World Health Organization (WHO), months after former President Donald Trump withdrew the country’s membership, and has also earmarked $1.9 trillion to fight Covid-19 domestically. On his first day in office, new US President Joe Biden said ...

  January 21, 2021   The Central African Republic on Thursday announced a 15-day emergency as armed groups tried to blockade the capital Bangui in a bid to topple newly re-elected President Faustin Archange Touadera. Residents watch as United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) armoured personnel carrier (APC) keeps guard while patroling a few ...

  January 21, 2021   By HOL   MOGADISHU – Somalia’s parliament has demanded an explanation from President Mohamed Farmaajo on the whereabouts and state of hundreds of Somali youth who were reportedly undergoing military training in Eritrea. A statement from the Foreign Relations Committee from January 18 demands an explanation from Farmaajo on the whereabouts of the military trainees. ...

  January 21, 2021   By MENAFN – SOM TRIBUNE   The number of Somali army trainees that Eritrea sent to the Mekelle front on Farmajo’s consent varies from 3000 to 4000 depending on the source but the whereabouts and condition of the disputed youngsters remains a mystery to this day Parliamentarian Mahad Salad said only 180 of 3,000 Somali ...

  January 21, 2021   Above, the scene of a twin suicide bombing which killed nearly 30 people on a bustling commercial street in the heart of Baghdad on January 21, 2021. PHOTO: AFP   By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Sahra | The Associated Press   BAGHDAD – Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital ...