TEHRAN, Iran –  Moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani was declared the winner of Iran's presidential vote on Saturday after gaining support among many reform-minded Iranians looking to claw back a bit of ground after years of crackdowns.   The powerful showing by the former nuclear negotiator allowed him to avoid a two-person runoff ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

      Somalia: Somalia has turned down request from Kenya to re-open talks to demarcate maritime boundaries. 0 inShare This is the second time the issue is raising diplomatic rift between the two neighbours. The decision by Somalia’s Cabinet has the potential of discouraging oil companies from conducting offshore oil and gas explorations in contested ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

                              A two-story Islamic center burned down overnight in north London in an incident being treated as possible arson. Rescuers found ‘EDL’ scrawled on the building’s remains, fueling fears of a racially motivated revenge for the bloody Woolwich execution. The fire broke out at around 3:15am local time at a mosque in ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

  Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah have besieged Qusayr which controls vital supply routes from Lebanon The Syrian army has regained control of the strategic city of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon, Syrian rebels and state television have said. "Our heroic armed forces have returned security and stability to all of the town of Qusayr," ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

  Somalia's president says he "wants answers" from South Africa after the brutal murder of a Somali man in Port Elizabeth, Al Jazeera has learned. The Somali man, 25-year-old Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good, was stoned to death on May 30 by a mob. The violence was captured on a mobile phone and ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

    Abu Nusaybah: 'I believe that certain events that happened to recently had an impact in shaping the changes.' Photograph: BBC   A friend of one of the suspected killers of a soldier butchered in a London street was arrested by counter-terrorism officers yesterday after going on television to allege that Michael ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

  US President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma after a 3km-wide tornado packing winds of up to 320kph tore through the state capital killing at least 51 people, including 20 children, and injuring at least 230. The Oklahoma medical examiner's office said on Tuesday that it was expecting the death toll from ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

  View PhotoAssociated Press/Craig Lassig, File - FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2010 file photo, Hawo Mohamed Hassan, left, and Amina Farah Ali, both of Rochester, Minn., leave U.S. District Court in St Paul, Minn. The two Minnesota …more      MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Wide-ranging sentences handed down in the yearslong federal investigation into ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

  Although the international media has under-reported it, the world has recently witnessed a major event in the Horn of Africa - a free, fair and generally peaceful election in Somaliland. On July 2, Isse Yusuf Mohamud, the chairman of Somaliland's election commission, announced that Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo, the leader of the ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

    Somaliland sits on the Gulf of Aden and is officially regarded as an autonomous region of Somalia. The two were, however, separate until 1960. During the civil war in the 1980s, 40,000 people from Somaliland were killed, and nearly half a million fled. The region then declared independence in 1991. Since ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

In the aftermath of Second World War, in a meeting held on 24th October 1945 in San Francisco, the Charter of United Nations Organization was finalized and countries liberated from the AXIS Forces were named “Occupied Enemy Territories” and they were recognized as existing countries. In the line with the ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

(AFP) — A warlord in southern Somalia's Jubaland has declared himself "president" of the region, clan leaders said Thursday, shortly after the election of another militia commander to the post.   With tensions already high, the move raised the risk of clashes between rival factions in the southern port city of Kismayo, ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

               The Chinese military is making preparations for the inaugural flight test of its newly designed unmanned combat vehicle, bringing the Asian powerhouse into the stealth technology race, Chinese media report. China’s first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), known as the Lijian ('sharp sword'), is designed jointly by the Hongdu Aviation Industry ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

      As we are The Central Somali Community in India,We would like to inform you that the UNHCR officers Corruption is not changing even if chief  Montserrat Feixas Vihe is changed and in Generally Corruption in India is not Ending unless The Indian Constitution make changes and effective anti-Corruption Law.   The major and ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO

British Prime Minister David Cameron is warning that failure to help Somalia rebuild will lead to more terrorism. Cameron spoke in London Tuesday as he opened an international conference on Somalia, where the new government is trying to restore order after two decades of chaos and war. The British prime minister ... RIIX HALKAAN KANA AKHRISO