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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Supporters of opposition political figures and state security forces fought in armed clashes Thursday that erupted in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration. No official casualty figures were immediately available from the violence that prompted calls for restraint from the United Nations and the United …
DUBAI, June 4 (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a message on Thursday that Iran’s enemies, having been defeated on the battlefield, were now seeking to undermine public resilience and sow internal divisions. Khamenei called for national unity in the face of those threats and said any action that created pessimism or …
BELGRADE, June 4 (Reuters) – Serbia’s security agency warned President Aleksandar Vucic not to travel to Montenegro on Friday for a summit with European Union and Balkan leaders, citing security threats amid a diplomatic tit-for-tat between the two countries. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and head of the European Commission Ursula von …
CAIRO/GAZA, June 4 (Reuters) – Israeli strikes killed at least nine Palestinians, including five family members, in separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said. Medics said Israeli planes launched strikes on four apartments around the same time before dawn on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 15 others. One …
MOGADISHU, June 4 (Reuters) – Government troops and militias allied with the opposition exchanged fire overnight and on Thursday morning in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee, residents told Reuters. The violence flared up ahead of planned protests on Thursday over President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s decision to remain in office …
Makki, 47, who cooks Lebanese dishes like couscous stews and traditional kibbeh balls in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights, immigrated to Michigan in 1990. But her heart never left her childhood village of Bint Jbeil, now one of the hardest-hit areas in southern Lebanon. Nearly every Lebanese American has felt the impact of the …
KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel, June 4 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces plunging support in the electorally vital north where Hezbollah rocket fire has been heaviest, a new poll has shown, putting pressure on him to take a more hawkish stance as elections loom. Wednesday night’s ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon – whether …
IJEVAN, Armenia, June 4 (Reuters) – When Anna Yegoyan first moved from the Armenian capital to the northern mountain town of Ijevan, she had to reach it along bumpy, potholed roads. Years later, she points to newly paved streets and highways as proof of change under Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who grew up there, and …
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Beijing banned four New Zealand lawmakers from traveling to China for a year and demanded they apologize because they visited Taiwan on a parliamentary trip, according to a message from the Chinese embassy conveyed via parliamentary officials and shown to The Associated Press on Thursday. China has hit lawmakers from …
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When Brazilian João Victor Gonçalves began playing soccer in one of Rio de Janeiro ’s poorest and most violent favelas, little did he know the game would one day allow him to travel abroad and play in an international competition. Last month, along with nine other young boys, he flew …