Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Twenty Islamic State members were killed, three booby-trapped vehicles were destroyed in west of Anbar, Al-Jazeera Operations Command has declared. Speaking to AlSumaria News on Monday, Major-General Qassim al-Mohammadi, commander of the army’s Al-Jazeera Operations, said “the army’s 7th division, along with the Al-Jazeera Operations troops and the tribesmen, supported by the international […]
Continue reading …With South Korea’s presidential election just one day away, North Korea on Monday called for an end to the history of inter-Korean confrontation. “The tragic North-South Korea relations today have been wrought by the conservative groups which, having been in power for the past 10 years, revived the foregone period of confrontation and maximized the […]
Continue reading …Iran says the number of tourists that visited the country last year increased by above 30 percent from a year earlier – what could be an indication that one of the world’s top travel destinations is already finding its lost flavor after the removal of sanctions. A top trade official in Tehran told the domestic […]
Continue reading …Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, preliminary results showed, giving a boost to her bid to retain power in national elections in September. Voters in the small, northern state of Schleswig-Holstein handed her CDU party about 32 percent, leaving the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) trailing […]
Continue reading …A 32-year-old Indian-American doctor has been shot dead under mysterious circumstances in a car in the US state of Michigan. Ramesh Kumar, who worked in the Urology Department of the Henry Ford Hospital, was found dead on the passenger seat of a car in a rest area, some 90 miles out of Detroit, on late […]
Continue reading …Here’s a look at how France’s media reacted to the Emmanuel Macron’s win. An early edition front page of Libération, the left-leaning French newspaper, simply declared “Well played,” alongside a portrait of Macron. View image on Twitter Le Pen’s face was on the back side of the paper with the words “”bien fait” which could […]
Continue reading …The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump must be well prepared in order for the first eye-to-eye talks of the Russian and US presidents to bring concrete results, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “As far as I understand, both Washington and Moscow need this meeting not for the sake of impressing somebody and […]
Continue reading …Pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron promised Sunday to heal France’s divisions after crushing far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a pivotal presidential election that has given him a large but fragile mandate for change. At 39, the pro-EU former investment banker will become France’s youngest-ever leader but faces a huge challenge to enact his programme while […]
Continue reading …Emmanuel Macron has become France’s youngest ever president after initial results showed he had beaten Marine Le Pen by a commanding margin of 65 percent to 35 percent. Refresh the page manually for updates. Macron wins by margin of 65% to 35%, estimates suggest Voter turnout set to be lowest since 1969 All photos: AFP […]
Continue reading …After repeated visits from discredited activists, vaccination rates among Minnesota’s Somali-American community plummeted to just 42 per cent in 2014 — far below the threshold to prevent an outbreak. MINNEAPOLIS—The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don’t let your children get the vaccine for measles, […]
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