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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Finland before he heads to Florida, the United States, for a China-US presidents’ meeting next week, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang announced Thursday. “At the invitation of President Sauli Niinisto of the Republic of Finland and President Donald Trump of the United States of America, President […]

A federal judge in Hawaii decided Wednesday to extend his order blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson issued the longer-lasting hold on the ban just hours after hearing arguments. Hawaii says the policy discriminates against Muslims and hurts the state’s tourism-dependent economy. The implied message in the revised ban is […]

  Arab leaders and heads of delegations gather for a group photo at the opening of the Arab summit at the Dead Sea on Wednesday  The 28th Arab summit meeting held on Wednesday at the Dead Sea concluded with a message of peace, full support for Palestine and a call for pan-Arab solidarity in the […]

Tensions between Turkey and Germany continue to increase over alleged spying on suspected Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) members in Germany by the Turkish intelligence services, who reportedly handed a list of the suspects to German authorities. Germany’s Federal Chief Prosecutor launched an investigation over allegations against the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) on Tuesday. The […]

Migrants overcrowd a wooden vessel during a rescue operation by the Spanish NGO Pro-Activa Open Arms in central Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) About 146 migrants are feared missing after their boat capsized after leaving Libya, according to a Gambian youth who was rescued following the disaster, the UN refugee […]

On Wednesday, South Korean news outlets reported that a sixth nuclear test by North Korea is imminent, and could take place as early as next week. An unnamed source within the South Korean military told Korea Joongang Daily, “We have intelligence that North Korea may conduct its sixth nuclear test in the first week of April and are […]

Lutgen challenges De Croo to take the debate on trade with Saudi Arabia to European level.© Belga  The debate around Belgian arms sales to Saudi Arabia, started on Sunday by the federal Minister for Development Cooperation, Alexander De Croo, should not only be confined to this aspect. It should be taken to European level, including […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday rejected British PM Theresa May’s call for negotiations on the UK’s exit from the European Union to run in parallel with talks on defining their future relationship. “The negotiations must first clarify how we will disentangle our interlinked relationship… and only when this question is dealt with, can we, hopefully […]

A law enforcement official tells NBC News that Capitol Police in Washington D.C. fired at the driver of a vehicle that hit a police car about 9:30 this morning near the U.S. Botanical Gardens at the foot of Capitol Hill. Police Respond to Incident Near U.S. Capitol 1:21 Earlier Wednesday morning, police noticed a woman […]