LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Shell Petroleum has agreed to pay €15 million ($15.9 million) as settlement to Nigeria over oil pipeline leaks in the country’s Niger Delta in the 2000s. In a statement on Friday, Shell said it had negotiated the settlement for the benefit of the Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo communities in […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali military’s land forces commander, Gen. Mohamed Tahlil, said Friday that the army had killed 67 fighters in the Middle Shabelle region, bringing the number of al-Shabaab fatalities to 217 in less than a week. Tahlil said the army attacked the village of El-Ba’ad late Thursday after it received intellig...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbia slammed Kosovo on Friday for a list of Serbs to be arrested prepared by Albanian lawmaker Armend Muja. Muja, a deputy with the Self-determination Movement, led by Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti, suggested the arrest of the Serbs, including Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s son Danilo Vuc...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA/AFP) – Burkina Faso’s military government on Friday announced the expulsion of the UN resident coordinator in the West African country. Barbara Manzi has been ordered to leave the country immediately, according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry. Manzi is “declared persona non grata on the national territory,...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The Nigeria air force killed more than 200 Boko Haram fighters in an air raid with the Super Tucano light fighter jet in the Sambisa Forest in the northeastern state of Borno, a military expert told Anadolu Agency on Friday. There has been no official confirmation from the military but Zaga […]
Legislation that Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled 13 years ago to help boost workplace democracy and curb worsening inequality in the United States was included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus package approved by the Senate on Thursday. Modeled on the success of employee ownership centers in Ohio and Vermont, Sanders’ (I-Vt.) Worker Ownership, ...
The typical CEO of a major U.S. corporation has to work fewer than seven hours to make the amount of money that the average worker earns in an entire year, according to a new analysis by Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies. Anderson, an expert on executive compensation, wrote Friday that “if the typical CEO […]
Citing the increased immigration enforcement and military funding it contains, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday cast the sole Democratic House vote against a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package. In the final vote of the 117th Congress, House lawmakers passed the sweeping spending bill 225-201-1, with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) ...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has refused to investigate false documents alleging a Muslim charity was financing terrorism although some of the false paperwork included phony RCMP search warrants, the Canadian Press has reported. The RCMP told the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) it should take concern...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The US has accused Russia of using weapons in Ukraine procured from North Korea and Iran – violations of UN Security Council resolutions. “The United States can confirm that the DPRK has completed an initial arms delivery to the Russian private military company known as Wagner, which paid for the equipment […...
