Former Michigan state representative Rashida Tlaib has become the first Muslim woman elected to US Congress after she won a Democratic primary election to represent Michigan’s 13th district. Running in a crowded field of candidates vying to replace John Conyers Jr, who served from 1965, until retirement last year, Ms Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian […]
Libya’s increasing oil exportations are beginning to raise eyebrows in Italy as authorities believe that the mafia is linking up with extremist groups loyal to the Islamic State group to smuggle crude oil from the Middle East into Italy. As Libya has been in turmoil for the past six years, it was, along with Nigeria, […]
Tunisia’s President Béji Caïd Essebsi died on Thursday at the age of 93 after he was hospitalized with a severe illness in late June leaving Tunisia in a power vacuum ahead of elections. Essebsi is Tunisia’s first democratically elected president following the Arab Spring revolution of 2011. A government statement called him one of Tunisia’s […]
