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Trump has called the Iran deal ‘the worst deal ever’ [Michael Conroy/AP Photo] If Trump refuses to certify, the issue goes to Congress. Legislators will have a non-binding 60 day period to debate the deal. Congress can decide to introduce or restore sanctions. It remains to be seen whether that will happen as several prominent […]

The United Nations’ cultural agency will elect a new chief on Friday, seeking someone who can revive UNESCO’s fortunes after the United States and Israel pulled out. © Jacques Demarthon, AFP | The logo of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris on October 12, 2017. Whoever gets the job […]

Swedish researchers have found references to Allah and Ali on woven silk from ancient Viking graves, a discovery which gives new insight into the link between the Vikings and the Islamic world. One of the woven silk bands. Photo: Annika Larsson The silk costumes were found in boat and chamber graves but had been kept […]

A priest was killed and a second injured after they were attacked by a man in Greater Cairo, the Coptic Orthodox Church said Arc Priest Samaan Shehata “In an unfortunate incident, archpriest Samaan Shehata of St. Julius’s church in Ezbet Girgis in El-Fashn, along with priest Beymen Moftah, of El-Malak church in Matay, were assaulted […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was to have a bilateral meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto late Thursday.  (SEAN KILPATRICK / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO)   MEXICO CITY—The Liberal government’s approach to foreign policy as a mix of formal and public diplomacy was on full display Thursday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived for his first state visit […]

The Kurdish Regional Government has deployed thousands of troops around the disputed oil city of Kirkuk for fear of an attack by Iraqi government army and militia, a senior official said. Kurdish fighters were instrumental in taking back control of Kirkuk from ISIL [File: AP] “Thousands of heavily armed Peshmerga units are now completely in […]

Annah Chota, UN Police Officer serving with the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Photo: UNPOL  “Being a girl child, I dreamt of occupying a powerful position to influence and create change in the community. It was the segregation of women that I experienced in my childhood that gave me the strength to add […]

Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s on Thursday warned that the crisis over Catalan independence from Spain could push the region into recession. “We do not believe that Catalan independence will occur,” S&P’s chief rating officer Moritz Kramer said in a statement as the agency underlined the potential fallout from prolonged uncertainty over the fate of […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said there was no problem with the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft systems, adding that Ankara also held talks on the S-500, a THAAD-type system, currently under development. “In our talks with [Russia President Vladimir] Putin we are not thinking of stopping with the S-400s. We have had talks on the […]