Las Anod (HOL) — Northeastern regional state President Abdikadir Ahmed Aw Ali Firdhiye on Saturday presented his new Cabinet and a five-year governing plan to the regional parliament, asking lawmakers to endorse his administration as it begins its first full term.

Britain said on Saturday it would launch the largest overhaul of policy on asylum seekers in modern times, drawing inspiration from Denmark's approach, one of the toughest in Europe and widely criticised by rights groups.

AS I listen to many comments and questions about disasters, I am reminded that faith in faith is much more common than faith in God. Many religious leaders and their adherents believe that storms can be prayed away. And it is okay to pray. That is...

Black River High School and Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth were not spared the wrath of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa on October 28, making operations at both institutions malfunction. But, while there is no timeline as to when they both will...

WESTERN BUREAU: Shelleitha Curtis did not expect to cry that morning. She was packing care packages – adding rice, juices, diapers, disposable food containers, garbage bags, cooking oil, and other essentials – for team members shaken by Hurricane...

Seventeen-year-old Mijaun Talbot, the joint regional top Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics performer for 2025, believes mathematics cannot simply be taught from the front of a classroom. For him, it is a subject to be...

The savage winds of Hurricane Melissa did not just strip roofs and flatten homes; they obliterated or damaged about 40 heritage structures that anchor Jamaican identity, memory and national spirit. That figure is expected to rise once privately...

The Home Secretary will unveil the proposals as part of wider plans, based on hardline Danish laws, to curb immigration and reduce the 'pull-factor' bringing migrants to the UK.

US President Donald Trump has lowered import duties on nearly 200 food and agricultural items, including spices and tea, to ease rising domestic prices. This move provides a significant boost to India's key agri exports, though seafood and basmati rice remain under tariff sanctions. The exemptions aim to create a level playing field for Indian products in the US market.

Shimon Hayut had faced up to ten years behind bars after being arrested there in September for an alleged £38,000 fraud committed in Germany against a Berlin-based woman.

Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter, Rohini Acharya, has accused her brother Tejashwi Yadav and aides Sanjay Yadav and Rameez Nemat of forcing her out of the family and silencing her after the RJD's election defeat. Acharya claimed she was abused and physically harmed for questioning the party's performance. This internal turmoil highlights significant cracks within the prominent political family.

As a fellow Muslim governing a financial capital for the past decade, London’s Sadiq Khan offers precedents and cautions for New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

The latest pardons underscore the breadth of the efforts the president has taken to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

A 24-year-old man was shot and injured after he allegedly pulled a gun on a police party in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Friday. Reports are that about 4 p.m., the police went to the French Street area of the town, based on information...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has removed over 700 truckloads of solid waste material from Catherine Hall and Westgreen in St James following flood damage caused by Hurricane Melissa. Minister without Portfolio in the...

Investigators suspect triacetone triperoxide (TATP) was a key component in the Delhi car blast, possibly mixed with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. The unstable TATP, nicknamed 'mother of satan', can create powerful IEDs and may have detonated due to heat, not a detonator. This theory aligns with the accidental blast possibility, as TATP precursors are easily obtainable.

The Supreme Court is set to hear a plea to lift a seven-year-old stay on a CBI probe into tiger poaching in Corbett Tiger Reserve. The probe had suggested forest officials' connivance with poachers. The CBI itself has sought vacation of the stay, citing preliminary findings of irregularities and cover-ups. An environmentalist argues the prolonged stay hinders dismantling poaching networks.

A delivery rider was admitted to an intensive care unit in hospital after colliding into a lorry on Nov 13 evening.The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force told AsiaOne they were alerted to the accident along Commonwealth Drive at about 7.30pm.Besides severe abrasions all over his body, Shin Min Daily News reported that the crash left the 47-year-old motorcyclist with injuries to his kidneys and a deep wound on his left forehead that exposed the bone.His wife, who only gave her name as Chen, told Shin Min Daily News that her husband’s injuries were serious but not life-threatening.The 38-year-old said that she knew about the accident after contacting the nearest hospital after her husband was uncontactable overnight.Chen added that she immediately took leave from work and went to National University Hospital.Shin Min reported that the delivery rider has undergone an MRI scan and would require further examination to determine the extent of his injuries.He is also awaiting stitches and surgery.She added that her husband does not know how the accident happened.

Abdinasir Elmi, 26, whose immigration status is being decided, has been charged with sexual and strangulation crimes. Elmi will stand trial next February.

Mathieu Barsalou ran in four touchdowns as the Montreal Carabins defeated the Saint Mary's Huskies 49-19 on Saturday in the Uteck Bowl.

The head of Alberta's tuberculosis clinic says an outbreak in Edmonton's inner-city is is of little risk to Edmontonians at large.

Premier David Eby has faced criticism within his party for his promise to fast-track resource projects and for the eight-week strike by the B.C. General Employees Union. Despite that, New Democrats backed his leadership with 82 per cent support at this weekend's NDP leadership convention.

Judith Keppel, 83, bagged the jackpot prize on November 20, 2000 after she correctly answered that Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to King Henry II.

Sergei Skripal, a double agent who had passed intelligence to MI6 , and his then 33-year-old daughter Yulia nearly lost their lives in the attack by Russian assassins in Salisbury in 2018

Under the new 'full decant' plans, both Houses would quit the palace in 2031 or 2032 and potentially not return until 2046 at the earliest.

Susanna leaves husband John, a journalist and author of A Very English Scandal and The Dig, her children Joseph and Milly, her brother Tom and mother Miriam

The plan to build the embassy has been mired in controversy over claims that Sir Keir Starmer struck a secret deal with Beijing to approve the project - despite objections from intelligence services

SINGAPORE – For years, Madam Rahimah Lee Abdullah and her husband tried to have children, but they had no luck.So when Mohd Ridwan came into their lives in 2004, they felt they were blessed. He was born in Bintan, an Indonesian island about a 45-minute ferry ride away.Madam Rahimah said they never got around to formally adopting the baby, but to the couple, he was their own. The boy became a Singapore citizen in September 2004.He was their only child, and they were his parents.Speaking to The Straits Times in their three-room flat in Bedok on Nov 12, Madam Rahimah, 66, said: «He was my only son. I loved him so much. Which mother doesn't love her children?»The teenager loved the couple. He called Madam Rahimah «mummy» and her husband «daddy».He was doing well in school, regularly scoring As at ITE College Central. He had dreams of becoming a pilot.But Ridwan's life was cut short in July 2021, while playing basketball with friends on a court near Block 18 Bedok South Road.

Hakan Fidan believes the conflict in Ukraine is currently at its closest point to ending

Turkish Foreign Minister said that because of the conflict in Ukraine, European countries have started to invest more heavily into their own military might

The vote would take place at 5:00 p.m. local time on Monday

Matthew Whitaker said that the conflict has turned into «a battle lab of the future» that shows how modern warfare has changed