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Barack Obama has said congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under federal criminal investigation simply because she's an outspoken critic of the President Donald Trump. "The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president," the former US president wrote on X, calling the probe "so appalling". The White House defended the inquiry, saying the justice department was "focused on restoring law and order". Last week, homeland security agents searched the Minnesota Democrat's Washington DC home as part of an investigation into her immigration status. Born in Somalia, Omar moved to the US with her family as a child. US media outlets have reported that the probe is tied to her American citizenship and whether she lied about her age when she arrived in the US in 1995. Questions have been raised about whether the age listed on Omar's citizenship application differed from her actual birth date. Obama said in his X post on Sunday that her father became a naturalised citizen when she was 17, and not yet legally an adult, which then gave her citizenship.

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At least 53 people have been killed in a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a training camp for Yemeni government forces, making it the largest single loss of life since the country’s civil war reignited in September. The attack on al-Alam camp in the southern Shabwa province was said to have injured more than 200 others, mostly young recruits, and described as a disaster by the country’s UN-recognised government. The injured were taken from the police and army training camp in the Jardan district to a hospital in the local capital, Ataq, where pleas for blood donations were made. There will be an inquiry into how so many troops were left so exposed to a Houthi attacks. In mid-September, the group began a fresh push on forces backing the UN-recognised government by pushing south along the Red Sea coast to try to take control of the Bab al-Mandab waterway. Reliable assessments of the death toll in the fighting over the last month are hard to gather, but it is running into the many thousands. A Saudi airstrike on Sunday killed nine, including five children and two women.

WorldRussia's oil exports through its Northern Sea Route in 2026 have already exceeded last year's by nearly 50 per cent. Disruptions in Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz and Black Sea make icy route more attractiveReuters · CBC News · Posted: Oct 19, 2026 10:32 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Ships are framed by pieces of melting sea ice in Frobisher Bay in Iqaluit, Nunavut, on July 31, 2019. Disruptions to global trade routes caused by wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have made Russia's Northern Sea Route more popular than ever. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)Russia's oil exports through its Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2026 have already exceeded last year's by nearly 50 per cent, with some 20 million barrels shipped to Asia from the start of navigation in July to mid-October, traders said ‌and data showed. The NSR links Russia's western ports with Asian markets through icy Arctic waters and is considered a more dangerous and expensive route.