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At least 20 people have been killed and several others wounded in a massive car bomb attack outside a hotel in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, police said, with officials fearing many casualties from the unusually large explosion. The blast on Saturday, in the central K5 Junction which is lined with government offices, hotels and restaurants, destroyed […]

People pull the wreckage of a propeller-engine cargo plane after it crashed in the sea near the international airport in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, on October 14, 2017. (Reuters) People pull the wreckage of a propeller-engine cargo plane after it crashed in the sea near the international airport in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, […]

MCatalan vice-president Oriol Junqueras said dialogue with the central government “must have at its heart the formation of the (Catalan) republic”. Photo: Pau Barrena/AFP A senior Catalan official on Saturday said an offer of talks with Madrid over his region’s independence push was aimed at negotiating secession from Spain, not stopping it. Catalan vice-president Oriol […]

Freed hostage Joshua Boyle says captors killed infant daughter, raped his wife Play Joshua Boyle speaks after years as a hostage Freed years after being taken hostage in Afghanistan, Canadian Joshua Boyle is condemning his captors, saying they raped his wife and authorized “the murder of my infant daughter.” Speaking to reporters from the Toronto airport, Boyle said […]

US-backed forces fighting ISIL says they are waging the “final” battle to uproot the group from the city of Raqqa [Erik De Castro/Reuters] ISIL is on the verge of defeat in Syria’s Raqqa and the city may finally be cleared of the group’s fighters on Saturday or Sunday, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said. “The […]

France’s President Emmanuel Macron with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Photo: Ralph Orlowski/Pool/AFP France’s President Emmanuel Macron expressed confidence on Friday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s potential coalition partners would not oppose his ambitious plans to reform the European Union. “Support for Europe is in the DNA of both the Greens and the FDP,” Macron told […]

US President Donald Trump struck a blow against the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement on Friday in defiance of other world powers, choosing not to certify that Tehran is complying with the deal and warning he might ultimately terminate it. © Brendan Smialowski, AFP | US President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran deal from the […]

Sochi, SANA – Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said his meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday addressed coordination of political and military issues, in addition to the economic dimension, which has stood out powerfully in the discussions of the bilateral relations. In a statement to SANA following the meeting, […]