Lawyers

• Trump's Revised Executive Order Bans Visa Applications From 6 Muslim-Majority Countries

  President Trump signed a new travel ban Monday that imposes a 90-day ban on the issuance of new visas for citizens of six majority-Muslim nations.

• Trump's Immigration Ban Draws Mixed Reactions From The World Of Sports

  President Trump tries protecting the American people with his Immigration Ban. Learning from what is happening in Europe, the ordinance will see its effect on a 90-day temporary implementation period.

• Swedish police say sword-wielding school killer driven by racist motives

  A masked swordsman who killed a teaching assistant and a boy and wounded two others, all with immigrant backgrounds, was driven by racist motives, Swedish police said on Friday, fuelling concerns that refugee numbers were polarizing public opinion in the country.

• Somalia parliament speaker drops impeachment motion against president

  Somalia's parliamentary speaker has withdrawn an impeachment motion brought against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud - the latest crisis to threaten the country's stability as it struggles to rebound from two decades of chaos and war.

• Obama says more political openness would strengthen Ethiopia

  U.S. President Barack Obama told Ethiopia's leaders on Monday that allowing more freedoms would strengthen the African nation, which had already lifted millions in the once famine-stricken country out of poverty.

• Pope says to visit Africa in November, may go to Kenya

  Pope Francis on Friday said he planned to visit the Central African Republic and Uganda in November, and hoped to go to Kenya, during his first trip to Africa since becoming pope.

• Murder and abuse before deadly migrant crossing

  Italian investigators are piecing together a picture of beatings and abuse that hundreds of Africans and Bangladeshis suffered before setting sail from Libya to Italy, only to drown late on Saturday in one of the worst migrant shipwrecks ever in the Mediterranean.

• War and poverty bring doubt to heartland of Ukraine's pro-Europe revolt

  When Ukrainians toppled a pro-Russian president last year, nowhere was the euphoria greater than in Lviv, a short drive from the EU border, where people have dreamt for generations of escaping Moscow's orbit to join the West.

• U.S. top court refuses to shield former Somali official from suit

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to block a lawsuit filed by a group of Somalis against their country's former prime minister seeking to hold him responsible for torture and human rights abuses in Somalia.

• Obama asks Congress to authorize U.S. war on Islamic State

  U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday sent Congress his long-awaited formal request to authorize military force against Islamic State, meeting swift resistance from Republicans as well as his fellow Democrats wary of another war in the Middle East.

• Somali prime minister voted out of office by lawmakers

  Members of parliament voted Somalia's prime minister out of office on Saturday for the second time in a year, a move Western donors had warned would threaten the war-torn nation's fragile recovery.

• Embattled Somali PM tells ministers to resign if they are unhappy

  Somalia's prime minister told cabinet ministers on Monday to resign if they are unhappy, intensifying a dispute which has stymied efforts to rebuild the country after decades of war.

• African immigrants worry about backlash from U.S. Ebola case

  In Dallas and other cities home to large populations of African immigrants, worries are abounding among many that their standing in the United States has been tainted by one Liberian man infected with Ebola being treated in Texas.

• Al-Shabaab: 3 Muslim Men in NYC Charged with Assisting al-Qaeda Linked African Terrorist Group (Video)

  Prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York leveled three defendants with terrorism related charges. The prosecutors described Ali Yasin Ahmed, Madhi Hashi and Mohamed Yusuf as "dangerous and influential" members of al-Shabaab, the same Islamic terrorist organization that has claimed responsibility for the attack at Westgate Mall, in Nairobi Kenya this past weekend

• Female Journalist Killed: Visiting Somali Reporter Shot Dead in Mogadishu

  Investigative reporter and radio journalist Rahmo Abdulkadir was shot dead on Sunday evening in Mogadishu. Two unidentified gunmen shot Abdulkadir five times as she was walking to a relative's house near Bacaad Market in Yaaqhiid District of Mogadishu.