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  Japan’s “J-alert” delivered ominous messages warning people to take cover after North Korea fired a missile over the north of the country  Photo: AFP Millions of Japanese awoke to ominous text messages Tuesday warning them to take cover as a North Korean missile flew overhead, with one train operator bluntly explaining its halted service as “Reason: […]

The nine-member gang robbed a money transporting vehicle last week Image Credit: Courtesy: Dubai Police Dubai: Dubai Police have arrested a nine-member gang for robbing Dh14 million from a money transporting vehicle. Major-General Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant to the Dubai Police Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs said on Monday that the nine Asian suspects […]

People evicted from a building in Rome hold a protest on August 26th. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti is set to propose a series of measures to relocate migrants who are evicted from occupied buildings, following meetings with key stakeholders this week in Rome. On Monday, Italian daily Repubblica reported that 600 empty buildings in various […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects plans to fire missiles toward Guam at the Command of the Strategic Forces in Pyongyang in this photo released Aug. 15. / Yonhap North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile Tuesday showed that its threat to strike Guam was not a bluff, as the missile’s range was within the […]

Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel. Photo: DPA. France and Germany on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian opposite number to ensure that a new ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is enforced, warning there has been little let-up in the violence. “France and Germany unfortunately have to acknowledge that the security situation […]

Bo Rothstein (left) resigned from Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government when he discovered its financial backer had made a donation to Trump. Photo: Göteborgs Universitet & Rick Scuteri/AP A top Swedish academic has resigned from his position at the University of Oxford because he did not want to legitimize a major donor who gave significant […]

A young migrant speaks on the phone in a temporary camp in Paris. Photo: Patrick Kovarik/AFP Seven African and European leaders are meeting in Paris on Monday to discuss ways to stem the flow of migrants into Europe from northern Africa. French President Emmanuel Macron has invited his counterparts from Niger and Chad as well […]

US President Donald Trump. PHOTO: REUTERS  Islamabad:While Pakistan is seeking diplomatic solution to iron out its differences with the US, a senior American diplomat postponed a visit to Islamabad on Sunday. Alice G Wells, the acting US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, was to travel to Islamabad on Monday in the […]

Photo: DPA A German male nurse jailed for life two years ago for killing two patients with lethal drug overdoses murdered at least 90 patients in total, police said on Monday, calling it post-war Germany’s worst killing spree. Niels Hoegel, 40, was jailed in February 2015 for two murders and several attempted murders of intensive-care […]

Russian engineers have begun a 72-hour moving operation to position a 227-meter-long railway arch for the Crimea Bridge on the piers located in the Kerch Strait in what is regarded as a “unique operation” in global bridge building. The arch, which stands 227 meters long and 45 meters high, was assembled onshore at the Kerch […]