EU naval force secures tanker after pirate attack off coast of Somalia
Operation Atalanta says entire crew of 24 people on the Hellas Aphrodite is safe and no injuries reported.
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Refugees in Kenya impacted by food aid cuts; WFP rolls out new system
The WFP says aid is being cut by 60 percent for the most vulnerable groups including pregnant women and disabled people.
‘Bomb first’: Trump’s approach to war-making in his second term
Surge in air attacks and civilian casualties accompany avowed ‘peace through strength’ strategy as efficacy questioned.
At least five dead after AU helicopter crashes at airport in Somalia
Helicopter with eight people on board crashes at Aden Adde airport, the main international airport in Mogadishu.
Under Trump, US strikes on Somalia have doubled since last year. Why?
As Trump hits the Horn of Africa, experts caution against drone strikes, saying the US needs to invest in peacebuilding.
Two jailed for 30 years over 2019 Kenya hotel attack
The men provided assistance to al-Shabab fighters who attacked the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi, killing 21 people.
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German court rules asylum seekers unlawfully expelled at Polish border
Judges say Berlin broke EU law by refusing Somali asylum seekers entry.
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At least 13 reported killed in suicide bomb blast in Somalia’s Mogadishu
Suicide bomber targets queue of young recruits registering at a military base in the capital.
Pilgrims march near the Colosseum carrying revered statues from Europe's confraternities during the Grande Processione, in Rome, Italy. [Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters]
Thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya area fled their homes with essential belongings on Friday, after intense Israeli air raids on the area. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Demonstrators travel by river to the mouth of the Rio Indio on Panama's Caribbean coast to protest against a planned reservoir for the Panama Canal and President Jose Raul Mulino. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talks to military members as he inspects projectiles during a visit to an airfield in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency. [KCNA via Reuters]
A woman checks on her malnourished child at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
Revellers carry an illuminated Mikoshi, a portable shrine, at the Senso-ji temple during the Sanja Matsuri, one of the three largest Shinto festivals in Tokyo, in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, Japan. [Manami Yamada/Reuters]
Palestinian refugee Zubaida al-Najjar, 90, who said she was forced from her home in the war surrounding Israel's independence in 1948, holds her old house's key as Palestinians commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]
Service members Viktor Cherniy, 52, and Vitalii Yunatskyi, 40, wounded during fighting with Russian forces, and patients of the Mechnykov Hospital talk in an intensive care unit, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine. [Alina Smutko/Reuters]
A young girl carries her dog as they reunite in the Sunshine Hills neighbourhood after a series of tornadoes hit Laurel County, in London, Kentucky, US. At least 27 people have been killed after storms hit the US states of Kentucky and Missouri. [Seth Herald/Reuters]
Residents and rescue workers evacuate a woman and her dogs on an inflatable boat through a flooded street following heavy rains in Campana, Argentina. [Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo]
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An aerial view of the floodwater following a heavy downpour in Mogadishu, Somalia, May 10, 2025. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
People stand in front of their flooded house following a heavy downpour in Mogadishu, Somalia. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
People push a cart through floodwater following a heavy downpour in Mogadishu. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
A woman stands in front of her flooded house in Mogadishu following a heavy downpour. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
People stand on top of a flooded building. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
People displaced by floodwater take shelter on the street. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
Displaced people take shelter in Mogadishu. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
People displaced by floodwater. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
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Palestinians struggle to obtain food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. [Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo]
Debris of an aircraft in the compound of a mosque at Pampore in Pulwama, Indian-administered Kashmir. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, left, talk as they watch the Victory Day parade in Moscow, Russia, during the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. [Sergei Bobylev/RIA Novosti via AP]
Demonstrators shine the lights of their mobile phones as they stand under a large European Union flag during a pro-EU rally ahead of the second round of the presidential election redo in Bucharest, Romania. [Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo]
A Somali family wades through floodwaters as they flee after overnight rains destroyed their home, in Wadajir district of Mogadishu, Somalia. [Feisal Oma/Reuters]
Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, of Turkiye, speaks at a news conference at Boston airport after being released on a judge's order after spending more than six weeks in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana, Massachusetts, US. [Faith Ninvaggi/Reuters]
The Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force display team, fly over the Mall and Buckingham Palace during the V-E Day 80th anniversary parade in London. [Alberto Pezzali/Pool/AP]
Israeli forces inspect the site where they said a projectile fired by Yemen's Houthis landed in the area of Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
Protesters shout during a demonstration against the Trump administration and the billionaire class outside the New York Public Library in Midtown in New York City, US. [Angelina Katsanis/Reuters]
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