Somali forces and allied militias have pushed al Shabaab fighters out of a strategic town in central Somalia that the Islamist group has controlled for six years, officials and the African Union (AU) said on Tuesday. The government, backed by AU troops and clan militias, says it has killed
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orkers at the world’s largest iPhone factory in China (Foxconn campus) and hazmat-suited police officers have clashed.Foxconn campus is where about half of Apple‘s smartphones are assembled.The workers were seen confronting police, some in riot gear, on Wednesday, according to videos shared over social media. The videos show hundreds of workers facing off with law
At least 162 people have died and hundreds of other persons sustained injuries after an earthquake struck Java, one of the largest islands in Indonesia. A 5.6 magnitude earthquake with a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey, struck the island in the early hours of Monday. The disaster left at least 700 […]
An Istanbul court, on Wednesday, sentenced a Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad women he called “kittens” to 8,658 years in prison in a retrial, local media reported. Adnan Oktar led television programmes surrounded by women wearing lots of makeup and little clothes as he preached creationism and conservative values. Last year, the […]
Slovenians were voting on Sunday in a run-off poll expected to elect Natasa Pirc Musar, a lawyer of former US first lady, Melania Trump, as the country’s first woman president. Musar, backed by the centre-left government, is running against the ex-foreign minister, Anze Logar, a veteran of conservative politics, in the EU country of two […]
A federal court in the United States sentenced Mustafa Mousab Alowemer of Pennsylvania to 208 months in prison (17 years and 3 months) for conspiring with an international terrorist organisation, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), to bomb a Nigerian church in Pittsburgh, US. According to a press statement signed by Assistant Attorney-General […]
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