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 Rabat – Police elements of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), Morocco’s anti-terror bureau have dismantled a terrorist cell in the city of Fez, Moroccan online media outlets reported. Two individuals aged 25 and 30 years, suspected of having links with the terrorist organization ISIS, have been arrested. The Moroccan security elements seized guns, hunting […]

Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs and the chairman of Austria’s People’s Party (OeVP), Sebastian Kurz. Photo: Joe Klamer/AFP Austrians were voting on Sunday in a snap election tipped to see conservative Sebastian Kurz, 31, become the EU’s youngest leader and form an alliance with the far-right, in the bloc’s latest populist test. A rightward shift […]

People in Kirkuk take up arms and join Peshmerga against the Iranian-backed Shia militia PMF and Iraqi forces’ attack, October 15, 2017. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Thousands of volunteers on Saturday night took up arms in Kirkuk to defend against any possible attack by Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shiite militias […]

Venezuelan people lay high hopes on the meeting between Presidents Putin and Maduro Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has come to Moscow for talks with President Putin. Venezuelan political analyst Basem Tajeldine and journalist Jordán Rodríguez told Sputnik that while the Trump administration is bashing their country, the two leaders have sent a clear message to […]

JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde Barely 24 hours after President Donald Trump called on the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to stop lending to Iran, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde firmly said no. Asked her response to Trump on Iran, Lagarde told reporters Saturday at the […]

This photo shows the last day Carmen and Armando Berriz were together after being married for 55 years. Carmen Berriz died in her husband’s arms Monday as the couple clung to each other in a pool amid flames from the Tubb Fire sweeping through the Santa Rosa area.(Photo: Provided/Luis Ocon) Armando Berriz remembers the first time he […]

Thousands of new Rohingya refugee arrivals cross the border near Anzuman Para village, Palong Khali, Bangladesh. Photo: UNHCR/Roger Arnold 13 October 2017 – The speed and scale of people fleeing Myanmar has triggered a humanitarian emergency in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of refugees now depend on humanitarian assistance for shelter, food, water and other […]

France on Saturday urged the US Congress not to rip up the Iran nuclear deal, after President Donald Trump decertified Iran’s compliance with the 2015 agreement. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. Photo: Fadel Senna/AFP “We strongly hope that Congress, which is now responsible for a possible rupture, does not jeopardise the deal,” French Foreign […]

The death toll of Saturday’s explosion in Somalia‘s capital, Mogadishu has increased to at least 85 people, an official from the city’s ambulance service told Al Jazeera. Another 250 people were wounded in the blast, which occurred at a busy junction, Abdulkadir Abdirahman said. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo declared three days of national mourning starting […]