MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s new prime minister named his 26 member-Cabinet, reinstating a large number of ministers who served in his predecessor’s government. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke announced the Cabinet early Monday in the heavily fortified presidential palace. Shamarke — who was prime minister in a previous administration — and …
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MADRID – Spanish police say they have arrested two Cameroonian migrants on suspicion of killing up to 10 other migrants by pushing them from a boat into stormy waters in a fight over a prayer session. Police said Thursday the two were arrested after several of the 29 survivors of …
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WASHINGTON – Environmentalists and fiscal watchdogs have teamed up again to release theGreen Scissors (search)2003 report, hoping to sliceup to$58 billion of what they say is anti-environmental pork in the federal budget. “[We] want to eliminate wasteful and harmful spending from the government,” said Erich Pica, a spokesman for theFriends …
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CARACAS, Venezuela – The International Monetary Fund is predicting Venezuela’s troubled economy will shrink by 7 percent in 2015, suffering the worst contraction in Latin America. It’s a dramatic downgrade from October, when the IMF said Venezuela’s economy would shrink by 1 percent. In a post published Wednesday, IMF Western …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official IRNA news agency says that Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has been summoned before parliament to explain his recent public stroll with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The IRNA report on Sunday says that 21 parliamentarians have demanded that Zarif explain his 15-minute walk through …
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The Malaysian governmentformally declared the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to be an accident Thursday, saying that it believed all 239 people on board had died. Malaysia civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said Thursday that the search for the jet “remains a priority.” The announcement was made in …
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CAIRO – An Egyptian court has sentenced 183 people to death over the killing of 15 policemen in violence that engulfed the country after the 2013 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Monday’s verdict came at the end of one of several mass trials in Egypt that have sparked an …
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BAGHDAD – Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered the end of a decade-old midnight curfew in Baghdad. A government statement issued Thursday says the midnight to 5 a.m. curfew, first implemented in 2004, will be lifted starting Saturday. The move appeared to be aimed at restoring a sense of …
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Hooded gunmen reportedly fired on French police in the northern suburbs of the Mediterranean port city of Marseille Monday ahead of a visit by the country’s Prime Minister. There were no immediate reports on possible casualties. Reuters reported that elite troops were being sent to the scene.The French newspaper Le …
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JERUSALEM – The Israeli military says a boat carrying materials for making weapons was intercepted by the navy last month en route to the Gaza Strip from the Sinai Peninsula. It says charges against three suspected smugglers, who were detained on board, were filed this week. The statement late Wednesday …
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