Libya’s eastern-based parliament said on Monday it had agreed a law for a parliamentary election to take place a month after a planned December 24 presidential election. A statement by parliament spokesperson Abdullah Belhaiq said the chamber had agreed each article in the law, which will keep parliament at the same number of members. Wrangling… Read More Libyan parliament agrees to law regarding parliamentary election
A large group of heavily armed militants killed 14 Burkina Faso soldiers and injured seven others in a dawn attack in the north on Monday, the government said in a statement. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the military detachment, which took place near the town of Yirgou, in the center-north Sanmatenga… Read More Fourteen soldiers dead, seven injured following attack on military post in northern Burkina Faso
Taliban government forces destroyed an Islamic State cell in the north of Kabul late on Sunday in a prolonged assault that broke the calm of a normally quiet area of the capital with hours of explosions and gunfire, officials and local residents said. With Afghanistan’s economy close to collapse and large areas of the country… Read More Taliban forces destroy Islamic State cell following Kabul bomb blast
Facebook Inc asked a judge on Monday to dismiss the U.S. government’s revised antitrust case that seeks to force the social media giant to sell Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook said in a court filing that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had failed to provide a “plausible factual basis for branding Facebook an unlawful monopolist.” The… Read More Facebook asks judge to dismiss U.S. lawsuit seeking to force sale of Instagram, WhatsApp
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are reconnected to the global internet, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform. Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time (1600 GMT), in what website monitoring group Downdetector said was the largest such failure it had ever seen. Around… Read More Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back online following hours of global outage
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in for a new five-year term on Monday, telling a crowd of thousands he would protect the country from foreign interference, amid global criticism over the war in the northern region of Tigray. His party scored a landslide victory in June’s election, cementing his power domestically despite international… Read More Ethiopian parliament swears in PM Abiy Ahmed for new term
Self-exiled Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said on Monday he felt he was closer to returning to the northeastern Spanish region after an Italian court suspended a case regarding Spain’s latest extradition request. A court in Sardinia said its suspension was pending a decision by the European Union Court of Justice on Puigdemont, his legal… Read More Italian court suspends extradition case of Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont
The two Koreas on Monday restored their hotlines that the North severed months ago, with Pyongyang urging Seoul to step up efforts to improve relations after criticising what it called double standards over weapons development. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his willingness last week to reactivate the hotlines, which North Korea cut off… Read More North Korea restores hotlines with South Korea
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