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Putin hands Trump World Cup soccer ball at Helsinki summit, 16 Jul, 2018 © Grigory Dukor / Reuters Vladimir Putin gave Donald Trump a football which might have contained a microchip which could also have been a bug – but almost certainly wasn’t. That hasn’t stopped Bloomberg and CNN pulling together one hell of a […]

The IRGC’s Quds Force Commander Ghasem Soleimani in reaction to US President Donald Trump’s recent tweet against Iran said “we are closer to you than you think”, rebuking Trump for threatening Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Major General Ghasem Soleimani made the remarks on Thursday in the city of Hamedan. His remarks […]

Greek authorities express fears over the fate of around 20 tourists that are missing following Monday’s deadly fire in eastern Attica. Sources say that the tourists mainly from Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Poland are missing from their lodgings in the seaside resorts of Mati and Rafina. Authorities are concerned that the tourists, trapped by the […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan led in partial results of a general election on Thursday, as the party of his jailed chief rival, ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, rejected the count as “blatantly” rigged. With just 30 percent of the total vote counted, the Election Commission of Pakistan had Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party […]

Exceptional conditions with gusts of wind that reached record speeds of up to 120 km per hour (75mph) were at least partly to blame for the devastation inflicted by the fires in Attica, a leading Greek scientist said. Manolis Pleionis,the head of the National Observatory of Athens said that “the high wind gust speeds certainly created […]

The Islamic State terrorist group publishes pictures of what it says are remains of Syrian jet shot down by Israel on June 24, 2018 (Screenshot courtesy of Walla) The Islamic State terrorist group on Wednesday published pictures it said showed the remains of a Syrian jet shot down by Israel a day earlier. Israel on Tuesday said […]

Officials of the South and North exchange lists of surviving separated families, at the truce village of Panmunjeom on Wednesday. / Courtesy of Unification Ministry South and North Korea exchanged lists of surviving separated families Wednesday, at the truce village of Panmunjeom, ahead of scheduled reunions next month. Through the Red Cross, the South delivered […]

The killed pilot is Colonel Omran Merei from the coastal city of Safita in the Tartous governorate, northwest of Syria. (Supplied) A photo of the Syrian pilot- who died in the Israeli shooting of his fighter jet that crossed into the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday-  surfaced online. The killed pilot is Colonel Omran Merei […]

  QUETTA: At least 31 people were martyred and dozens more wounded in a suicide attack near a polling station provincial capital of Balochistan, officials said, as people voted in  elections on Wednesday. “(The bomber) was trying to enter the polling station. When police tried to stop him he blew himself up,” a local administration […]

The total number of dead in the destructive fires east of Athens has risen to 76. Greece Fire Service’s announced 74 fatalities late afternoon on Tuesday. A few hours later another two bodies were discovered in the seaside town of Mati. The injured are 188, including 23 children. There is also an unspecified number of missing. All […]