The election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who takes office amid months of political upheaval and faces issues such as a deadly insurgency and a terrible drought, was welcomed by Somalia’s international partners on Monday. Residents in the capital Mogadishu raced through the streets banging metal cans and fired guns into the air in celebration … Read more
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somalia’s new president, is a former professor and peace campaigner whose first administration was marred by allegations of corruption and infighting. Sworn in after midnight on Sunday following a marathon vote by lawmakers, Mohamud is the first Somali president to win a second term. He has vowed to transform the troubled Horn of Africa … Read more
Finland’s and Sweden’s lawmakers debated their NATO bids on Monday, as the two neighbors prepare to submit applications this week as a deterrence to Russian aggression. Finland officially announced its intention to join NATO on Sunday as Sweden’s ruling party said it backed membership, paving the way for a joint application. The move is a … Read more
Provisional election results in crisis-hit Lebanon look to have delivered a loss to the largest bloc, led by Iran-backed Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, and strengthened reformists. Turnout was low in the general election Sunday, the first since the Mediterranean country was plunged into a deep economic crisis that has stoked popular fury with the hereditary and … Read more
Black holes are one of Einstein’s most profound predictions in his general theory of relativity. They were first investigated as a mathematical consequence of the theory rather than as physically meaningful objects, but they quickly evolved into generic and sometimes unavoidable results of the gravitational collapse that produces a galaxy. In fact, most physicists believe … Read more
YouTube personality Nathan Barnatt, often known as ‘Dad,’ opened Tuesday night’s Creator Clash fight programme in Florida with a shocking 22-second finish. At the Yuengling Center, eighteen social media stars, including iDubbbz and Harley Morenstein, traded their video cameras for boxing gloves to benefit a variety of charity. And when Barnatt faced Matt Watson of … Read more
Switzerland agreed on Sunday to increase the availability of transplant organs by making everyone, unless they specifically refuse, a potential donor after death. The legal change, approved by 60 percent of voters in a referendum, marks a dramatic shift from the current system. Under the existing laws, transplants are only possible if the deceased person … Read more
After the United Nations reported fugitive Rwandan genocide suspect Protais Mpiranya died in Zimbabwe in 2006, Zimbabwe denied harboring him on Sunday. Wanted for his role in the 1994 genocide, Mpiranya, presidential guard commander at the time of the massacres, died in Zimbabwe where he fled years earlier, following pulmonary tuberculosis, UN prosecutors said. He … Read more
Residents of Buffalo, New York, gathered at vigils and church services on Sunday to mourn the deaths of ten people shot by an alleged white supremacist in what one official called “domestic terrorism, pure and simple.” The suspected shooter, identified as 18-year-old Payton Gendron, was arrested at the scene, a grocery store in a predominantly … Read more
Following a violent spree in Buffalo, US President Joe Biden issued a powerful condemnation of racist extremism, calling on Americans to remove the hatred that remains a “stain on the soul of America.” “A lone gunman, armed with weapons of war and a hateful soul, shot and killed 10 innocent people in cold blood at a grocery … Read more
Exit polls from Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday showed Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) trailing the conservative CDU by a wide margin. Surveys published after polling stations closed at 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) put the conservatives on around 35 percent, with the SPD on around 28 percent — a result … Read more
In what officials have termed as a “hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism,” an 18-year-old white boy opened fire at a Buffalo, New York supermarket on Saturday, killing ten people and wounded three more. Eleven of the 13 victims were Black, and two were Caucasian. The Caucasian shooter arrived at Tops Friendly Market about … Read more
The Pixel 4a arrived in India a few months late, but that didn’t stop it from being an instant sensation by hitting the value sweet spot something you don’t often say about Google phones. But that was two years ago, and the country in South Asia has yet to see a Google phone. After a … Read more
The Real Life Guys, a Youtuber group, built a Tesla Model 3 electric tank. This Is How This Off-Road EV Looks The Tesla Model 3 is the company’s most affordable model. Although the carmaker provides customization options for its electric car customers, some people are unhappy with a standard EV. Some of them reduce the … Read more
It appears that the Apple TV 4K is receiving an update, with one of the industry’s top analysts forecasting that a less expensive model will be released in the second half of 2022 – though it’s unclear what that model will look like. This information comes from Ming-Chi Kuo, a reliable source for Apple leaks. … Read more
Officials claimed on Sunday that a suicide bomber attacked a military truck in Pakistan’s restive northwestern province bordering Afghanistan, killing three children and three soldiers. The mountainous frontier separating Pakistan and Afghanistan has long been a hive of militant activity, with fighters using the porous border to escape state security forces. On Saturday evening a … Read more
Among the ten new saints formally recognized on Sunday were a Frenchman slaughtered in the desert, a Dutch priest executed in a Nazi death camp, and an Indian lay convert. Thousands of people from around the world crowded into St Peter’s Square in the Vatican for the canonization mass, presided over by the 85-year-old pontiff … Read more
According to the Israeli hospital treating him, a Palestinian died on Sunday from wounds sustained two days ago in the hotspot Jenin refugee camp following a confrontation with Israeli police. Daoud al-Zubaidi, 43, was shot in his abdomen during an Israeli raid Friday to arrest what Israel’s army called “terrorist suspects”, at the camp in … Read more
