MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somaliland’s defense minister has resigned to protest his government to allow landlocked Ethiopia to access Somaliland’s coastline.

“Ethiopia remains our number one enemy,” Abdiqani Mohamud Ateye said in an interview with local television on Sunday.

as a threat to its sovereignty by Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia decades ago but lacks international recognition for its claims of being an independent state.

Ateye asserted that in an earlier meeting with Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi, he expressed his belief that stationing

The Toronto Zoo is the latest local agency to be hit by a cyber attack.

The zoo says the ransomware/cyber incident was first detected on Jan. 5, 2024, and staff took immediate steps to determine its extent.

An investigation is underway to determine the impact on guests’, members’, and donors’ records.

The zoo said it does not store any credit card information, and the well-being and care of animals were not affected by the cyber attack.

The zoo is working

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked a state judge to halt proceedings on ballot access in Maine to allow the U.S. Supreme Court time to rule on a case out of Colorado in which Trump was kicked off the ballot over his role in the on the U.S. Capitol.

Maine Democrat Shenna Bellows last month became the first secretary of state in history to bar someone from running for the presidency under the rarely used Section 3 of . That provision prohibits those who “

Toronto police say a man recently identified as a suspect in a cold case murder from just over 40 years ago has died.

Authorities updated the homicide case of 47-year-old Kevin McBride, who was found murdered in his Scarborough apartment on May 17, 1982.

McBride had been stabbed several times and was discovered after officers were asked to attend the man’s residence by concerned friends who had dinner plans with him and were unable to reach him.

Toronto police said McBride lived alone

OTTAWA — Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips is hopeful Ottawa’s famed Rideau Canal will open for skating this year despite winter’s slow start.

Last year’s unseasonal warmth kept the famous skateway from opening for the first time in its history. After Ottawa experienced a nearly snowless and unusually warm December, concerns mounted that history was going to repeat itself.

Phillips said the warmer-than-usual temperatures across Canada have postponed some winter activities, but that forecasts show frigid weather heading to the North.

He said

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered a new joint North Dakota legislative district for two Native American tribes that successfully argued a map created through redistricting in 2021 violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting their voting strength.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Peter Welte’s decision to adopt and implement a new map comes after a flurry of court filings in the lawsuit since his Nov. 17 ruling that the state’s Native American voters from having an

WASHINGTON (AP) — A home owned by the judge overseeing the federal election subversion case against former president Donald Trump was targeted by a fake emergency call Sunday night, the latest in a spate of similar false swatting reports at the homes of public officials in recent days.

Police responded around 10 p.m. to a report of a shooting at a Washington, D.C., home linked in public records to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. But officers quickly found out that no shooting happened

ARRIAGA, Mexico (AP) — A caravan of about 2,000 migrants on Monday resumed their journey through southern Mexico, after participants were left without the papers the Mexican government appeared to have promised.

The from Venezuela, Cuba and Central America had started walking on Christmas Eve. But after New Year’s Day, the government persuaded them to give up their march, promising they would get some kind of unspecified documents.

The migrants were seeking transit or exit visas that might allow them to take buses or

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil on Monday observed the anniversary of when thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded government buildings and called for a military intervention to remove President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from office.

Several demonstrations in defense of democracy were taking place across the South American country, hours after Federal Police carried out dozens of search warrants as part of its targeting those responsible for the mayhem.

Prosecution plus a ban on Bolsonaro from running for office stands in contrast to the U.S.