MOGADISHU – Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh was reelected for a sixth term after official results showed him winning 97.81% of the vote in Friday’s election. Guelleh, 78, has ruled the small Horn of Africa nation of about 1 million for more than two decades. Last year, the country’s lawmakers scrapped presidential age limits. Election…
3 min readUpdated: Apr 11, 2026 03:46 PM IST A senior Iranian source has told news agency Reuters Saturday that the US had agreed to release Iranian frozen assets, which were held in Qatar and other foreign banks, even as American and Iranian delegations arrived in Islamabad for ceasefire talks. This is seen as a…
When dmg media set up its Innovation Hub in early 2025, its founding team of four set out to create proof-of-concept products in a sandbox environment to explore potential AI use cases. Their work produced valuable insights into working with AI, and eventually the team wanted to start scaling up some of these experiments and…
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – APRIL 11: U.S. Vice President JD Vance (C) walks with Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir (L), and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar after arriving for talks with Iranian officials on April 11, 2026 at Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by…
KYIV – Russian drone strikes killed at least two people in the Ukrainian city of Odesa overnight into Saturday, local authorities reported, ahead of a proposed ceasefire for Orthodox Easter. A further two people were wounded in the attack on the Black Sea port city, when drones hit a residential area, damaging apartment buildings, houses…
As the United States and Iran prepare for ceasefire talks Saturday, the two countries appear to have common ground on only one thing — their need to find an exit ramp from the war. President Donald Trump is paying a growing political and economic price at home, with falling approval ratings and climbing gas prices…
After a clip of a little girl was released requesting that a pink rocket be launched towards Tel Aviv, the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) released a picture of a pink rocket with the caption “In Response to the Revolutionary Girl’s Request”. During the nighttime presence of people in the streets of Iran, a clip…
“I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from an offhand outburst, his statement reflects a broader ethos taking hold in Silicon Valley’s military-tech sector, one that treats coercion as…
Most American Catholics were probably not expecting to spend the first week of Easter trying to figure out whether their government was threatening to overthrow the first American-born pope. Yet a handful of news reports this week raised that very strange possibility. They landed just as both the Roman Catholic Church and right-wing Christian influencers…
Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Dec. 29, 2025.Alex Brandon/The Associated Press Donald Trump presents himself as the most pro-Israel president in U.S. history. He has moved the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He proposed a peace plan…