May 7, 2023   This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the seized oil tankers Niovi, left, and Advantage Sweet, right, off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 6, 2023. Satellite images analyzed Sunday, May 7, 2023, by The Associated Press showed the location of two oil tankers recently seized by Iran amid tensions with the ...

  May 7, 2023   In this handout image taken from a video released by Prigozhin Press Service on Friday, May 5, 2023, head of Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin reads his statement standing in front of his troops in an unknown location.PHOTO: AP   By AFP   The leader of Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that he had ...

  May 7, 2023   Following yesterday’s coronation, 14 of the 56 Commonwealth nations now have King Charles III as their head of state. Although some are celebrating the occasion, for others, it is a jarring reminder of colonialism and repression. A new stamp honouring King Charles III is unveiled at a ceremony in Ottowa, Canada, in May 2023. © ...

  May 7, 2023   Shoppers leaving as law enforcement officers respond to a shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets in Texas on Saturday. PHOTO: REUTERS   DALLAS – A gunman shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at a busy mall north of Dallas on Saturday, the police said. Mr Brian Harvey, chief of police ...

  May 7, 2023   Culture secretary defends Scotland Yard’s ‘heavy-handed’ response to peaceful protests after 52 arrested Republic’s Graham Smith is arrested ahead of the coronation. He was released on Saturday night. Photograph: Daniel Boffey/The Guardian   By Robert Booth Social Affairs Correspondent | The Guardian   A minister has defended the controversial arrests of peaceful protesters at King ...

  May 6, 2023   Russian Ambassador to Somalia, Mikhail Golovanov (Left), and Somalia’s Foreign Minister, Abshir Omar Jama Huruse. Credit: MoFA-Somalia   By WBW (The GBM)   MOGADISHU – Russian Ambassador to Somalia, Mikhail Golovanov visited the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, Abshir Omar Jama Huruse on Monday (May 1, 2023) in Mogadishu, Somalia. His First Visit to ...

  April 28, 2023   Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman early Friday, residents said, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s two top generals whose power struggle has killed hundreds. Evacuees from Sudan wait for their flight at Larnaca airport, Cyprus, Thursday, April 27, 2023. Around 140 people ...

  April 13, 2023   Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Commander of the Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, says he wants a single army for Sudan. Photo: Reuters   By Agence France-Presse   KHARTOUM – Sudan’s regular army warned Thursday that the country was at a “dangerous… turning point” after paramilitaries deployed more fighters in major cities amid a deepening rift within ...

  April 11, 2023   UN Sec General, Antonio Guterres, left talks to Somali family through a translator, middle, in a refugee camp in Mogadishu Tuesday, April 11, 2023. U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for “massive international support” for Somalia as he visited the East African country that is facing the worst drought in decades. (AP Photo)   By ...

  April 10, 2023   Photo: Via DGME   By Ileana Fernandez | The Tico Times   SAN JOSE – Costa Rican authorities have arrested and deported Lutrnan Warsame Farah, the eldest son of the high-ranking senior leader of Al-Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group. He was detained in Costa Rica, where he had been staying in hotels using false identities ...