Category: Global News & Politics

BY HEBA SAID The frustration kept me awake the first time I read the comment. It is difficult to understand how, in a land that each year honors a man who marched for everyone’s equality, people could not want the same for me, a fellow American. The comment that suggested I was responsible for reversing the work...

Reporters Without Borders condemns last week’s politically-motivated dismissal of 20 journalists from Oromia Radio and Television Organization (ORTO), the main state-owned broadcaster in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest regional State. The 20 journalists were denied entry to ORTO headquarter on 25 June and were effectively dismissed without any explanations other than their alleged “narrow political views,” an assessment the...

BEIJING (AP) — China is re-opening its embassy in Somalia some 23 years after evacuating its diplomats as the East African nation plunged into civil war. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday the decision came after Somalia established its first government and parliament in 21 years. He said Beijing would send a delegation to...

Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic has been angered by media questions as to whether his players are observing Ramadan. Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic has turned on reporters repeatedly asking whether his players are observing Ramadan on the eve of their World Cup clash with Germany. Germany take on the Algerians in Porto Alegre on Monday (Tuesday...

KARACHI: The 12 Pakistanis out of 20, who were trafficked from Pakistan to Somalia by cruel agent for slavery, returned to Pakistan on Saturday with the kind efforts of former Federal Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney and Ansar Burney Trust International. The Ansar Burney Trust International that was endeavouring hard to save the lives...

MORE details have been released by police about the suspects in the investigation into ‘several men’ raping a teenage girl in woodland. The 17-year-old Asian girl was walking from Darvill’s Lane towards High Street on Friday evening when she met with a group of men close to the junction with Church Street and Chalvey Road...

Mogadishu – At least two people were killed and seven wounded when a bomb ripped through a busy market in the Somali capital on Monday, a government official said. It is not clear who carried out the attack but in the past similar attacks in Mogadishu have been claimed by al-Shabaab militants, who have vowed...

There has been a surge of anti-Islamic attacks following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby Jonathan Brown Muslim women are more likely to fall victim to Islamophobic hate crimes than men, with many of the attacks “opportunistic” and provoked by hostility to traditional dress, a new study has found. Researchers said that traditional dress such...

Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab militants have warned they will step up attacks in the Somali capital Mogadishu during the holy month of Ramadan, which started on Sunday. In an audio message released on the Al-Shabaab – controlled station Radio Andalus and also on an Islamist website, the group’s commander in charge of Mogadishu operations, Sheik Ali Mohamed...