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Watch: Senior Trump adviser dumps on Minneapolis, prompting retort from Mary Moriarty
Star Tribune - Minnesota
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July 16, 2025
One of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers went on national television and ridiculed the city of Minneapolis as a crime-ridden haven for undocumented immigrants, comments that drew a swift retort Wednesday from Hennepin County Attorney Mary...
Liberal feminism will never liberate us
Scalawag Magazine
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July 16, 2025
Katy Perry recently rocketed to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spacecraft, joined by a star-studded, all-female crew that included journalist Gayle King and Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sanchez. The 11-minute-long trip was marketed as a...
Immigration News Today: Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ Plans to Spend $6 Billion to Expand U.S.-Mexico Border Surveillance
Documented - New York
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July 16, 2025
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Washington D.C. Trump...
UPDF dispatches team to probe military helicopter crash in Somalia
Independent (Uganda)
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July 10, 2025
KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | Uganda’s military has dispatched a team to investigate the deadly helicopter crash that killed five peacekeepers and injured six others in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a spokesperson said on Thursday. Felix...
Uganda dispatches team to probe military helicopter crash in Somalia
Xinhua News Agency
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KAMPALA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Uganda's military has dispatched a team to investigate the deadly helicopter crash that killed five peacekeepers and injured six others in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a spokesperson said on Thursday. Felix...
From the archive: The UN’s Rwanda failure
New Statesman
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July 16, 2025
Ten days after the end of the Rwandan genocide, a New Statesman editorial condemned the failure of the international community to stop the tragedy. “The Ghost of Somalia hovers over the whole Rwanda operation,” a top UN official told the New...
Somalia congratulates Malawi on 61st Independence Day
Shabelle Media Network
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July 7, 2025
Mogadishu, July 6, 2025 – Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Saturday extended warm congratulations to the government and people of Malawi on the occasion of the country’s 61st Independence Day. In a statement...
Somalia offers condolences to US over deadly Texas flash floods
Shabelle Media Network
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July 7, 2025
Mogadishu, July 7, 2025 – Somalia on Monday extended its “deepest condolences” to the people and government of the United States following devastating flash floods in central Texas that have killed multiple people, including children, and left...
IMF concludes third review of Somalia’s Extended Credit Facility
Panapress
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July 10, 2025
10 july 2025 - 09:52:18 MA/AR 241 Views Panafrican News Agency Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has completed the third review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement for Somalia,...
Somalia: High-level conference expected to kick off in Lasanod on SSC-Khatumo future
Shabelle Media Network
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July 7, 2025
LASANOD, Somalia, July 8, 2025 – A major political conference is expected to take place in the coming days in the northern Somali town of Lasanod, bringing together traditional elders from the SSC-Khatumo regions and senior officials from the...
Trump authorizes 529 airstrikes in 5 months, nears Biden’s 4-year total
Straight Arrow News
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July 16, 2025
In the first five months of his second term, President Donald Trump has overseen 529 U.S. airstrikes, nearly matching the 555 recorded during all four years of Joe Biden’s presidency, according to data cited by The Telegraph. Most of Trump’s...
Al Shabaab Claims Suicide Bombing at Jale Siyad Base as Somalia’s Security Wavers
teleSUR
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July 9, 2025 Hour: 8:24 pm A powerful explosion followed by gunfire shook the Jale Siyad military base in Mogadishu on Wednesday, in what the militant group Al Shabaab described as a suicide bombing targeting Western trainers stationed at the...
A Historian Surveys the Wreckage in Gaza
Jacobin
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Over the past thirty-five years, Mahmoud Assaf has collected over thirty thousand books in his Gaza City home. Despite being displaced five times (from Gaza City to Khan Yunis to Rafah, and now to a tent in Deir al-Balah), the renowned Palestinian...
Somalia: Interior Minister appoints committee to oversee finalization of SSC-Khatumo State formation
Shabelle Media Network
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July 6, 2025
MOGADISHU – Somalia’s federal government has appointed an eight-member committee to facilitate the formation of a regional administration for the SSC-Khatumo area, the Ministry of Interior announced in a decree issued Saturday. The committee,...
Suicide bombing strikes military college in Mogadishu: ministry
Shabelle Media Network
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July 9, 2025
Mogadishu, Somalia, July 9 – A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the Jaalle Siyaad Military Academy in Mogadishu late Tuesday morning, causing an unknown number of casualties, Somali authorities said. The blast, which was heard across...
Al-Shabaab militants claim responsibility for explosion at military school in Somalia
Euronews
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July 9, 2025
Published on 09/07/2025 - 19:34 GMT+2•Updated 23:16 Somalia's defence ministry said officials were investigating an explosion at a military training school in Mogadishu, an incident claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militant group as a...
Somalia’s Coastal Crisis: Voices From the Edge of the Sea
The Good Men Project - California
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July 6, 2025
By Guest Contributor By Vladyslav Bondarenko, maritime security specialist and Global Voices contributor. Along Somalia’s coastline, thousands of families once relied on fishing for their livelihoods. Today, their boats often return empty. Foreign...
Al-Shabab suicide bomber strikes Somali military academy in Mogadishu
Xinhua News Agency
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MOGADISHU, July 9 (Xinhua) -- An al-Shabab suicide bomber blew himself up on Wednesday at a military training academy in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in the latest attack by the militant group, witnesses and police said. A police officer, who...
Al-Shabab claims responsibility for an explosion at a Somalia military training school
Associated Press
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July 9, 2025
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s defense ministry said officials were investigating an explosion at a military training school in the capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, an incident claimed by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group as a...
Suicide bomber targets Somali military academy in Mogadishu
China Daily Global
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By By SHARON NAKOLA in Nairobi Kenya | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-07-09 21:38 A suicide bomber linked to the militant group Al-Shabab detonated explosives outside the Jaalle Siyaad military academy — one of Somalia's main training centers...