Somali soldiers walk at Sanguuni military base, about 450 km south of Mogadishu, Somalia, on June 13, 2018. (MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB / AFP) MOGADISHU – Somali National Army (SNA) killed 21 al-Shabab militants and injured several others after al-Shabab militants raided a military base in central Somalia early Tuesday. Chief of Defense Forces Odowaa Yusuf Rage […]
TOKYO, Jan 17, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu today announced the development of a supercomputer system for Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau (hereinafter CWB)(1) for use in numerical weather predictions. The new system started operation in June 2022 under an initiative that was initially implemented in 2021. The program will be extended in […]
Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as security forces operate, outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan 8, 2023. (ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS) BRASILIA — With a Brazil flag draped around his neck and his feet propped up on a dark wooden table, Samuel Faria […]
Central Japan, Dec 2, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Central Japan, the region in which the new anime-themed park famous for its sci-fi fantasy machines and vehicles debuted earlier last month, is quickly becoming the homeland of startups paving the way towards the future of mobility. Earlier this week, the Japan External Trade […]
Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Sept 29, 2022. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA – Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicenter of the country's Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government's response to the […]
A Student runs on the verandah of the classrooms block on day one of opening schools in Kampala, Uganda on Jan 10, 2022. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) KAMPALA- Eleven children were killed Tuesday in a school fire outbreak in the central Ugandan district of Mukono, police said. A police statement issued here said the tragic […]
A man walks over a broken section of the Pine Island Road in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Matlacha, Florida on Oct 1, 2022. (RICARDO ARDUENGO / AFP) MIAMI – The largely innocuous but soggy remnants of Hurricane Ian drifted through Virginia early on Sunday, leaving in their wake storm-ravaged residents in Florida and […]
Media report in front of destored building after a deadly 30-hour siege by the al Shabaab group at Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia on Aug 21, 2022. (HASSAN ALI ELMI / AFP) MOGADISHU – The US military said on Wednesday it had killed 27 fighters from the al Shabaab militant group in an air strike […]
This picture released by the Italian firefighters shows an aerial view of the Senigallia area after floods hit Marche region, central-east Italy, Sept 16, 2022. (ITALIAN FIREFIGHTERS – VIGILI DEL FUOCO VIA AP) CANTIANO, Italy – At least 10 people were killed by torrential overnight rains and floods in the central Italian region of Marche, […]
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire set by demonstrators during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Aug 22, 2022. (ODELYN JOSEPH / AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE – Thousands of Haitians on Monday joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year […]
A forest fire reaches olive trees in the village of Colmeias, near Leiria, central Portugal, July 13, 2022. (ARMANDO FRANCA / AP) LEIRIA, Portugal – Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures […]
A man counts a wad of the new Zimbabwean ten-dollar notes received from an ATM outside a bank in Harare on May 20, 2020. (JEKESAI NJIKIZANA / AFP) HARARE – Zimbabwe's central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to tame runaway inflation, which has considerably weakened […]
