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Iran President Hassan Rouhani appointed two women as vice presidents and one as a civil rights assistant in his new cabinet. In separate decrees on Wednesday, the Iranian president appointed Masoumeh Ebtekar as vice president for women and family affairs and La’aya Joneidi as vice president for legal affairs. Ebtekar was a vice president and […]

Hackers broke into the database of Kenya’s electoral commission and manipulated the results of the election, Nasa Presidential Candidate Raila Odinga has alleged. Vote counting is ongoing after Tuesday’s election where voters were asked to either re-elect President Uhuru Kenyatta or replace him with longtime opposition leader Mr Odinga. With ballots from 92 per cent […]

A man has been shot and arrested in relation to Wednesday morning’s assault when anti-terror soldiers in the northwestern suburbs of Paris were rammed into by a car, leaving six injured. French security forces have shot and arrested a man suspected of being behind an attack on a group of soldiers on Wednesday morning in […]

Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army’s ninth armored division arrived to boundaries of Tal Afar town, west of Nineveh province, Waradana news website reported on Tuesday. “Army troops arrived to the boundaries of the town, expected to be freed from the Islamic State group later,” a army source said. An Iraqi Army helicopter hovers over an […]

North Korea’s military announced Wednesday it is considering missile strikes aimed at laying siege to Guam, home to several U.S. strategic bombers. The Korean People’s Army (KPA) stressed that it stands ready to stage an all-out armed conflict if Washington presses ahead with a preventive war against it. The saber-rattling came hours after U.S. President […]

President Uhuru Kenyatta last night took an early lead with more than half the votes counted, as challenger Raila Odinga disputed the results being released by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. At around 3:00am, President Kenyatta was leading with just over six million votes to Mr Odinga’s 5 million. That totalled to some 11.4 […]

The defense and foreign ministries both summoned ranking officials from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to protest Tokyo’s renewed territorial claims over Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual defense white paper released Tuesday. The defense white paper included Dokdo, claimed by Tokyo as Takeshima, as a part of Japanese territory for 13 consecutive […]