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The global trading order is under siege, World Trade Organization director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned as delegates convened for the WTO ministerial in Yaounde, calling the disruption the most severe the system has faced in eight decades. "The world order and the multilateral system we used to know has irrevocably changed," she said, stressing: "We cannot deny the scale of the problems confronting the world today." With 166 member states represented, the WTO meets in the Cameroonian capital amid stark divisions among…

East Africa’s new drought surge pushes millions toward hunger as water prices soar and livestock die Friday March 6, 2026 MOGADISHU — A failed rainy season has deepened drought across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, thrusting nearly 26 million people into extreme hunger, accelerating livestock deaths and sending water prices soaring, Oxfam warned in a report released this week. The crisis arrives less than three years after the Horn of Africa’s longest and most severe drought on record, when five consecutive rainy seasons…

Trump’s latest tariff threat — a 10% levy on select European nations, rising to 25% by June unless he “gets control of Greenland” — has turned a running spectacle into a high-stakes test of transatlantic relations, Federal Reserve independence and political resolve in Washington. The move over Greenland, paired with a drumbeat of domestic legal offensives, signals not a passing provocation but a strategy designed to force binary outcomes: he wins or he loses, Europe wins or it loses. There is little middle ground left. For…

Fatal fire labeled ‘one of worst tragedies’ in Swiss history A fatal fire in Switzerland has been described as “one of the worst tragedies” in the country’s history, according to live updates from Europe. Immediate details remained scarce as authorities worked to confirm the scope of the disaster. Officials had not released the location of the blaze, a death toll or information about the cause at the time of the initial reports. The characterization underscores the severity of the incident and indicates a significant loss of…

Devastating floods have claimed the lives of at least 16 individuals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with many more reported missing. The relentless torrential rains and landslides wreaked havoc, demolishing homes, obliterating roads, and damaging bridges throughout the heart of the country, according to officials. The town of Jablanica, located roughly 70 kilometers southwest of Sarajevo, where the unfortunate fatalities occurred, has become entirely isolated after both road and rail connections were severed. The extent of the…

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reported that airstrikes claimed 492 lives, including 35 children and 58 women, leaving 1,645 injured — a heartbreaking toll for a nation still grappling with last week's deadly communications attack. In a pre-recorded announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised Lebanese civilians to heed warnings and evacuate. "Please take this alert seriously," Netanyahu said. "Get out of harm’s path now," he urged. "Once our operation concludes, you can safely return to your homes."…

WHO chief: World's worst well being disaster unfolds in Ethiopia GENEVA -- With a lot of the world's consideration centered on the bloodshed in Ukraine, the pinnacle of the World Health Organization mentioned on Wednesday that there was "nowhere on earth where the health of millions of people is more threatened" than the Ethiopian area of Tigray. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…

UN Food Program, sounds the alarm. More than 70% of the population in the world's youngest country - it became independent from neighboring Sudan only in 2011 - will face hunger this year. Endless conflicts, climate catastrophes or even inflation, the country…

Al-Shabaab suffers worst defeat as Somali military retakes key areas MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia-based al-Shabaab militants suffered heavy casualties in central Somalia's Mudug area on Tuesday, state media reported in the most recent crackdown on the militants, who nonetheless management a number of villages in Somalia. nation. According to state media, not less than 90 al-Shabaab terrorists…

Somali leaders have begun resuming dialogue on the worst election disaster MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's political management returns to the negotiating desk over the upcoming election, which has actually thrown the nation right into a state of limbo after the nation didn't hit the timeline in step with the Structure of the Horn of Africa nation. Outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo…