British banks may have laundered money for the Guptas

Tipped off by  former anti-apartheid activist and Labour Party Minister, Britain’s financial regulators and the Serious Fraud Office are probing whether the giant HSBC and Standard Chartered banks are linked to the Gupta scandal in South Africa. South African-born Hain says the banks may inadvertently have been conduits for laundered money. Lord Hain tells the […]

Somali terrorist bomb was aimed at Turkish military base

A Somali intelligence official says terrorists were initially targeting  a Turkish military base in Mogadishu when they detonated a truck bomb that killed more than 300 people. The base, opened last month to train Somali soldiers, is Turkey’s largest foreign military installation. Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency received information that the al-Shabaab terrorist group […]