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A former Defense Minister has been elected the new speaker of Somalia’s Lower House of Parliament, local media outlets have reported. The new speaker is in the person of Mohamed Mursal Abdirahman, the Voice of America’s Harun Maruf confirmed in a tweet. He has also previously served as ambassador to Turkey. Lawmakers converged on Monday to elect a new speaker ...

Eman El-Deeb, a young Egyptian woman, decided to leave her country in 2016. But it wasn’t for education, work or a partner. It was because of her hair. The 26-year-old has big curly hair that is admired in Spain, where she currently lives. But in Egypt, where many women seek to emulate European ideals of beauty, she felt like her ...

BARCELONA will look to loan out starlet Ousmane Dembele if they sign Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann. The former Real Sociedad star has been heavily backed to join the Catalan side this summer, after resisting offers from elsewhere at the start of the season. Griezmann is said to be the biggest priority for Barcelona in the transfer market this summer after ...

MOHAMED SALAH looks to have escaped retrospective action after appearing to lash out at Stoke’s Bruno Martins Indi on Saturday. The Liverpool winger has been in sublime form for the Reds this season. But Salah had an unusually quiet afternoon against Stoke at the weekend. The Egyptian missed a guilt-edged chance to open the scoring in the first half. And ...

SERGIO RAMOS has confirmed Real Madrid will not offer Barcelona with a guard of honour at the Nou Camp next week. Los Blancos are being urged to respect their arch-rivals when the two sides meet, after Ernesto Valverde’s side wrapped up the La Liga title against Deportivo on Sunday. Barcelona gave Madrid a guard of honour after Bernd Schuster guided ...

Kenya lost about 1,500 banking and insurance sector jobs in 2017, the first such drop in seven years that also defines how banks reacted to the interest rate capping law introduced in September 2016. The total number of people working in the financial services sector dropped to 63,500 as most banks shifted from brick-and-mortar operations in favour of technology-based transactions, ...

LIVERPOOL have distanced themselves from reports that assistant manager Zeljko Buvac has quit the club. However, Jurgen Klopp’s No 2 will be absent for the rest of the campaign. ‘The Brain’ as Zeljko is known, will not be in the dugout alongside Klopp as the Reds look to secure their place in the Champions League final and qualify for the ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that a ban on Filipino workers from heading to Kuwait that’s been in effect since February would now be permanent, inflaming a dispute sparked by complaints of the abuse of Filipina housemaids and workers in the Gulf country. Kuwait on Wednesday expelled the Philippine ambassador and recalled its own envoy ...

In addition to seeking greater security collaboration, Buhari and Trump also will “discuss ways to enhance the strategic partnership between the two countries and to advance shared priorities, such as promoting economic growth,” the Nigerian presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said in a statement. Nigerian newspapers report that a team of government officials that travelled to the U.S. ahead of Buhari ...

ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger says positives can be taken despite his side losing 2-1 to Manchester United. Wenger took a makeshift squad to Manchester with the focus on Thursday’s Europa League semi-final second leg against Atletico Madrid. It meant a club debut for Greek defender Konstantinos Mavropanos while youngsters Reiss Nelson and Ainsley Maitland-Niles also started. And the Gunners produced ...