By Emily Bader LEWISTON – Only two other metropolitan areas in the entire country have a higher daily average of new COVID-19 cases over the last two weeks than Lewiston-Auburn. Lewiston-Auburn has an average of 71 new cases per 100,000…
By Al Jazeera Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced United States President Joe Biden’s recognition of the Armenian genocide as “groundless” and harmful to bilateral ties. Biden’s historic declaration on Saturday infuriated the US’s NATO ally Turkey, which has said the…
By Hibah Ansari and Becky Z. Dernbach MINNEAPOLIS – Sumaya Aden called her grandmother a few days after a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty in the murder of George Floyd. Her grandmother, who had raised Sumaya and her siblings, was crying on the…
By Al Jazeera More than one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, according to a tally, with more than half given in just three countries. At least 1,002,938,540 doses had been administered in 207 countries and territories…
By Tim O'Shei In September 2019, one day before he delivered a speech at the United Nations General Assembly calling out the “violence, cowardice and opportunistic guerilla tactics” of Al-Shabab, the jihadi fundamentalist group gripping large swaths of his country,…
By Scott Thistle Dozens of advocates for immigrants in Maine offered their support Thursday for a bill that would restore health care benefits to thousands of non-citizen residents, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing violence in their native countries.…
By Tom Odula BARAKA, Kenya (AP) — In a convoy of pickup trucks fitted with spray guns, soldiers zoom through Baraka’ s hills leaving a trail of dust and bemused villagers in its wake. The vehicles brake when the soldiers…
April 1st, 2021 By Ridwan Ali & Setareh Jalali, Boundless MEdia (For English translation click here) Toddobaadkan barnaamijkeenna wararka, waxaan ku qabaneynaa wax xoogaa ka yara duwan. Martideenii , Ridwaan Cali, ayaa xanuunsanayey toddobaadkan, sidaa darteed waxaan go'aansanay intii aannaan…
By Ridwan Ali & Setareh Jalali (Tarjumaadda Soomaalida halkan guji) This week for our news show, we’re doing something a little different. Our host, Ridwan Ali, was sick this week, so we decided rather than not post any news, we…
By Edith M. Lederer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council urged Somalia’s government on Friday to organize elections “without delay” in a resolution that stressed the pressing threat to the country’s security from al-Shabab and armed opposition groups.…