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AFP Photo     The United States is vowing to keep up the pressure on Syria after the intense nighttime wave of missile strikes from U.S. ships, despite the prospect of escalating Russian ill will that could further inflame one of the world’s most vexing conflicts. Standing firm, the Trump administration on Friday signaled new sanctions […]

   According to US President Donald Trump, the US military successfully represented their country and the world in carrying out the attack on the military airfield in Syria. Trump congratulated the participants of the operation by posting a message on his Twitter (AP photo) “Congratulations to our great military men and women for representing the […]

A police cordon was still in place outside the Åhléns department store on Saturday morning. Swedish police suspect that a man detained on Friday evening was the driver on the truck that ploughed into pedestrians in Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15.  “We suspect that the man who was arrested is the perpetrator,” Stockholm police spokesman […]

Russia has reportedly sent a missile-armed frigate to its naval base in Syria’s Mediterranean coastal city of Tartus following a recent US missile strike against an airbase in the Arab country. An informed military-diplomatic source in Moscow told Russia’s TASS news agency on Friday that the Admiral Grigorovich, a Russian Black Sea Fleet’s frigate, was […]

For decades, the identity of this mysterious man – who funded KAU and later Mau Mau – has been a matter of debate since no one seemed to know his name. In the national debate of freedom fighters, the tall man with immaculate looks hardly features. The Nation has, for the first time, identified the […]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bears “sole responsibility” for the US strike on a regime airbase, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said in a joint statement on Friday. “After the chemical weapons massacre of April 4 on Khan Sheikhun in northwestern Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel (file photo). Credit: JOHN THYS/AFP , […]

DONALD Trump has been given a masterclass in the art of the deal by a man whose forebears have spent 5000 years perfecting it. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping talk business while walking together at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. Picture: AFP.Source:AFP “We’ve had a long discussion already, and so far I […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia –  A court in Somalia’s breakaway northern territory of Somaliland has sentenced a journalist to two years in prison after he was arrested for meeting Somalia’s new president. Abdimalik Muse Oldon was charged with engaging in anti-national activities, spreading “false” news and disturbing public order. Oldon, an online journalist, was arrested upon his […]

MAR-A-LAGO, United States, April 7 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, pledged on Friday to expand mutually beneficial cooperation and manage differences on the basis of mutual respect. Xi made the two-day trip to the southeastern U.S. coastal town of Palm Beach for the first meeting with Trump, in […]