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© KCNA / Reuters German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned the US against breaking the nuclear deal with Iran, since it would make North Korea unlikely to agree to any international deals concerning its nuclear program. “Our big concern is, with regard to North Korea, that it is very unlikely the North Korean dictatorship is […]

Color festival in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Zeko Dano Daniyal) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A Kurdish official on Monday confirmed that many Iraqi and foreign diplomats have proposed a confederalist system as a means to resolve issues between Erbil and Baghdad that led to the controversial Sep.25 referendum. The Kurdistan Region’s […]

officials say the Iranian captain of a fishing boat was killed and another sailor was injured after security forces opened fire during an operation in the Indian Ocean. Officials said the shooting occurred after Puntland Maritime Police Forces spotted two boats suspected to be fishing illegally Friday in Somali waters. Colonel Mohamed Abdi Hashi of […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi heads a meeting of the Iraqi National Security in Baghdad on October 9, 2017. It passed a set of new measures against the Kurdistan Rehion in response to holding the vote on independence last month. Photo” PM media office BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq has filed a lawsuit through the office […]

Bengt Holmström, one of the 2016 Nobel Economics Prize winners. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT The 2017 Nobel Prize announcement season comes to an end with the Economics Prize. 11:40 Five minutes to go… With five minutes to go until the announcement, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is packed with journalists from across the globe. The […]

Iran has vowed a “firm and crushing” reaction should Washington decide to include the elite wing of its army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on its list of terrorist organizations, according to the country’s foreign ministry. Members of the Iranian revolutionary guard. © Reuters Tehran’s response will be “firm, decisive and crushing”, Iranian Foreign Ministry […]

KARACHI: A 17-year-old high school student in Pakistan replicated a physics visualization, and developed results that surprised some older scientists, he exalted the name of country in the world by making such an achievement in the field of physics. As per details, revealed  by international media, he replicated the phenomenon and presented his work as […]

Protesters hold Spanish flags during a demonstration to support the unity of Spain. Photo: AFP Pressure mounted on Monday against Catalan plans to declare independence after hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied to defend Spanish unity. The protests followed days of soaring tensions after police cracked down on voters during a banned October 1st Catalan independence […]

Kim Jong-un announces changes at line-up of powerful Workers Party’s Politburo as he reaffirms N Korea’s nuclear drive.   An image of Kim Yo-jong shown on a TV screen in Seoul, South Korea [File: The Associated Press] North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has promoted his younger sister to a senior post in the one-party state, […]