62 h. ago Badenoch pledges spending cuts if Conservatives form next government

Manchester, ambition and the scent of fresh paint The conference centre in Manchester felt oddly like a museum of future plans — banners fluttering in a draft of empty seats, coffee urns hissing in the corners, microphones glinting as if waiting for history to speak into them. Outside, the crisp autumn air smelled of street […]

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3 d. ago Pope Leo to embark on November pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon

A pilgrimage at a crossroads: Why the pope’s trip to Iznik and Beirut matters There is a peculiar hush in Iznik these days, as if the town’s famous tiles — cobalt blues and arabesque vines baked into clay centuries ago — are holding their breath. Traders sweep dust from doorways, a cafe owner stacks extra […]

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3 d. ago Security MoU Sparks Backlash Over Dropping ‘Republic of Somaliland’ Label

Hargeisa (PP News Desk) — The Somaliland Administration’s Minister of Presidency, Khadar Abdi Hussein, has lashed out at critics of… Sii akhri The post Security MoU Sparks Backlash Over Dropping ‘Republic of Somaliland’ Label appeared first on Puntland Post.

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3 d. ago New French prime minister steps down hours after cabinet announced

The Day French Politics Tilted: A Cabinet Named, a Prime Minister Gone It began like a political movie with an abrupt, breathless cut: a freshly minted cabinet unveiled after weeks of talks, ministers posed for photographs under palace lights — and then, within hours, the man who assembled it had handed in his resignation. For […]

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4 d. ago Ali H. Warsame urges Puntland parliament to summon security MoU signatories amid conflicting accounts

Garowe (PP News Desk) — Ali Haji Warsame, the former Puntland Minister of Education, has today urged the Puntland Parliament… Sii akhri The post Ali H. Warsame urges Puntland parliament to summon security MoU signatories amid conflicting accounts appeared first on Puntland Post.

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5 d. ago Georgian prime minister pledges sweeping crackdown after allegedly foiled coup

A City on Edge: Tbilisi’s Square Became a Mirror The air in Tbilisi on election day tasted metallic — not from the coffee or the sulfur baths, but from tear gas. It clung to clothes, to the crisp autumn sky, and to the conversations that had been building for a year. For a country that […]

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5 d. ago FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING, INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

MINISTRY OF PLANNING, INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (MOPIED) Specific Procurement Notice (SPN) Request for Bids Works (One-Envelope Bidding Process)   Employer    :      Ministry of Planning, Investment and Economic Development (MoPIED), Federal Government of Somalia Project         :      Somalia Water for Rural Resilience Project ‘Barwaaqo’ Contract Title    :      Construction of New Project Offices and Resource Center in […]

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6 d. ago Nationalist Sanae Takaichi Poised to Become Japan’s First Woman Prime Minister

When the old guard crowned a new face: Japan at a crossroads On an autumn evening in Tokyo, the fluorescent lights of the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters hummed like a city that never quite sleeps. Supporters and staffers clustered around television screens, phones pressed to ears, eyes tracking the number that would decide the direction […]

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7 d. ago Imminent elections could decide the fate of the UK prime minister

The hall smells of coffee and caution: inside Labour’s conference crossroads Walking into the exhibition hall at the Labour conference last Sunday felt like stepping into a living, breathing organism—one that had swollen with triumph in 2024 and now breathed a little faster, unsure if it was still on the mend. There was a certain […]

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1 week ago Somali Finance Minister meets with KSrelief Assistant Supervisor General

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Assistant Supervisor General for Operations and Programs Eng. Ahmed Al-Baiz has met with Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Somalia Bihi Egeh in Riyadh.

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1 week ago Trump unveils Gaza peace plan, Netanyahu publicly endorses it

Beyond the podium: a White House peace pitch and the voices it could not quiet It was a sharp, staged moment on the White House lawn—a photograph meant to show resolve: U.S. President Donald Trump standing shoulder to shoulder with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, each smiling into lenses while the world watched for a […]

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1 week ago Starmer Warns Britain at Crossroads: Choose Decency, Not Division

At the Crossroads in Liverpool: Keir Starmer’s Plea for “Decency” and the Fight for Britain’s Soul On a damp autumn morning in Liverpool, gulls wheel above the Mersey and the city’s Georgian terraces huddle against the wind. Inside the cavernous conference centre, the red glow of party banners mixes with the smell of coffee and […]

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1 week ago Somalia, Egypt discuss military ties as Cairo set to deploy troops for AU mission

Egyptian Defense Minister Abdul Majeed Saqr and his Somali counterpart, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, discussed ways to strengthen military cooperation and support stability across Africa during a meeting in Cairo on Monday.

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1 week ago UK contributes over $30 million to support Somalia’s security transition

UK Minister for Development announced the new funding to support non-lethal support for Somali forces and AU-led security efforts.

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1 week ago Ireland to block Israeli ministers’ entry, Taoiseach announces

A Small Nation, a Big Moral Line In a packed United Nations General Assembly, Ireland’s Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, stood and made a decision that felt deliberately personal: to bar members of the Israeli government implicated in what he called the “unfolding disaster in Gaza” from setting foot on Irish soil. “We will act to prevent […]

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2 w. ago Guinea’s Supreme Court upholds referendum approving constitutional changes

Guinea at a Crossroads: Ballots, Barricades and the Long Shadow of the Coup The air over Conakry felt thick the day I walked past the government radio station: humidity, dust and the tired patience of people who have watched their country lurch from promise to rupture. Old men sat under mango trees, chewing kola nuts […]

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2 w. ago Israeli PM criticizes countries for recognizing Palestinian state

When the UN Hall Held Its Breath: A Moment of Fracture and the Weight of Memory The United Nations General Assembly, a place where diplomatic ritual often softens into ritualized rhetoric, erupted this week into raw politics and rawer grief. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu climbed the rostrum, scores of delegates rose and filed […]

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2 w. ago United Nations launches formal investigation into Trump’s alleged ‘sabotage’ claims

A Stutter on the World Stage: When an Escalator, a Teleprompter and a Sound System Became a Diplomatic Mystery The United Nations building sits like a small, multicolored city on the East River—flags snapping in the wind, booths humming with interpreters, and a perpetual tide of diplomats who move between meetings like tides between islands. […]

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2 w. ago China Announces First Ever Commitment to Reduce Carbon Emissions

When Promise Meets Policy: China’s New Climate Pledge and the Tightrope of Global Ambition There’s a curious kind of theater to modern diplomacy: leaders speak to glass and pixels, while the planet waits with its old, messy, un-sentient patience. President Xi Jinping’s recent video address to the United Nations—laying out a first-ever numerical emission cut […]

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2 w. ago Zelensky, Trump to Meet at UN Summit Following Drone Attacks

Night of Drones: How War Reimagined the Sky There was a strange, mechanical hush over Kyiv in the hours before dawn — not the quiet of sleep, but of people holding their breath. The air itself felt crowded, heavy with the distant thunder of missiles and the closer, higher-pitched whine of little kamikaze drones sweeping […]

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