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FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): At least 25 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and two Taliban insurgents have been killed during a clash in the Bala Baluk district of western Farah province, an official said on Saturday. Public representative Dadullah Qane told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants stormed a military check-post in the Kasank area of the district late […]

Family and rights group demand release of a Canadian citizen imprisoned in Ethiopia for alleged ‘terrorist crimes’. A Canadian family is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to negotiate the release of a citizen imprisoned in Ethiopia saying “there will never be a better time than now to get him home”. Canadian Bashir Makhtal, 49, […]

More than 70 South Korean lawmakers are calling for the leader of the North’s Olympic delegation to be publicly hanged and “sliced to death.” The demands came at a protest outside the presidential Blue House in Seoul Friday. North Korea’s general reconnaissance bureau head Kim Yong Chol speaks during an emergency briefing for diplomats basing […]

The US decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem prompted angry protests [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters] Announcement labelled ‘provocation to Arabs’ as May 15 marks Nakba Day and the mass displacement of Palestinians. The US State Department has said the new US embassy in Jerusalem will open in May 2018, to coincide with […]

The UN Security Council delayed a vote on demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to Saturday at noon (1700 GMT) to allow more time for negotiations, diplomats said. Syria’s UN envoy Staffan De Mistura in Vienna. (File Photo: Reuters) The council has been in talks on a draft resolution on the truce since February 9 […]

Egypt’s National Elections Authority (NEA) approved on Friday President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Moussa Mostafa Moussa, the head of the Ghad Party, as the final candidates in the upcoming presidential elections, which are set for 26-28 March 2018. National Elections Authority sets two final Presidential candidates (Photo: Ahram ) The Authority has also approved the electoral […]

A protester holds a placard reading “Papers for all or no papers at all” in Paris on Wednesday, during a demonstration against the French government’s new immigration bill. [Photo/Agencies] The government of French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled tough proposed immigration rules on Wednesday that human rights organizations say will victimize asylum-seekers. The bill, which was […]

Trump’s Middle East peace plan is almost ready but won’t be “loved” by either side, Nikki Haley has predicted. However, the Trump administration’s staunchly pro-Israel stance seems at odds with the plan’s alleged impartiality. Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. © Debbie Hill / Reuters A vision for […]

President Donald Trump and America’s powerful gun lobby on Thursday cast citizens with weapons as a solution to shootings, as it emerged an armed deputy was on campus during a deadly Florida rampage but failed to act. © Mandel Ngan / AFP | US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with state  and local […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed Friday recent comments by a spokesperson of the U.S. Department of Defense claiming there were civilian casualties in Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch to clear the PKK-affiliated People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region. Addressing the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) provincial chairs in Ankara, Erdoğan said […]