State media stated that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro landed in Saudi Arabia on Monday as the country’s diplomatic outreach extends beyond conventional Western allies. According to the Saudi state news agency SPA, Maduro was welcomed at the airport of the Saudi city of Jeddah on the Red Sea by PrinceRead More →

KAMPALA: According to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, 54 Ugandan troops perished last week when terrorists besieged an African Union facility in Somalia. This was one of the bloodiest recent attacks by Al-Shabaab militants. Late on Saturday, Museveni sent a message on his official Twitter account stating, “We discovered the lifelessRead More →

MOSCOW/KYIV: According to Moscow, Ukrainian artillery bombardment in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine claimed the lives of five persons. Drone strikes were also reported on two Russian oil facilities on Wednesday. In a week in which both nations accused one another of using airstrikes to sow terror in their capital cities asRead More →

Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow on Tuesday, according to Russia, in what one legislator described as the worst such attack since World War II, while Kyiv was also bombed by air for the third time in 24 hours. Since Russia dispatched soldiers to its neighbour in February of last year, theRead More →

MOGADISHU: Following a commitment by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in March to abolish a convoluted indirect system in existence since 1969, Somalia’s administration and federal member states said on Sunday that direct universal suffrage will be implemented with local elections scheduled for June 2024. After reaching an agreement with stateRead More →

The competition to lead NATO is getting more intense. But the race is primarily conducted in the dark, and the winner has not yet been identified. The Norwegian secretary-general of the transatlantic military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, is scheduled to leave his position at the end of September after serving nineRead More →

WASHINGTON: According to Reuters, US President Joe Biden and senior congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy are nearing an agreement that would lift the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling for two years while curbing expenditure on most things. According to the official, who requested anonymity because they are not authorised to speakRead More →