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Chancellor Angela Merkel was scrambling to drag Germany out of crisis on Monday after high-stakes talks to form a new government collapsed, potentially forcing Europe’s top economy into snap elections. Angela Merkel after meeting with President Steinmeier on Monday. Photo: DPA. Germany now faces weeks, if not months, of paralysis with a lame-duck government that […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has slammed Saudi Arabia for walking on the footsteps of the Zionist regime and called the Arab League’s anti-Iran statement “worthless” which is full of “lies and distortions”. Pointing to the Sunday session of the Arab League in Cairo, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said issuing “worthless statements” is […]

Russian technicians work in front of the Sukhoi SU-35 on the tarmac of Le Bourget at the Paris Air show. (File Photo: AFP) Sudan has become the first Arab country to acquire the fourth generation Su-35 fighter jets from Russia just ahead of President Omar Ahmed al-Bashir’s first visit to Moscow on Thursday. The first […]

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops confiscated huge amounts of weapons of Islamic State in southwest of Mosul, a security source from Nineveh said on Sunday. “The weapons are estimated by 40 tons,” the source told Alghad Press. “The weapons were found buried under the ground in Ain al-Jahsh region, southwest of Mosul.” Security forces seize weapons […]

HARARE – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has agreed to stand down after 37 years in power, CNN reported on Monday, after he avoided any mention of resignation in a rambling national address on Sunday night. A resignation letter has now been drafted, CNN said, citing sources familiar with his negotiations with the generals who seized power […]

Deposed President Carles Puigdemont, currently in Belgium pending possible extradition to Spain, is set to stand for re-election. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP A new poll carried out by one of Spain’s biggest newspapers predicts that more than four fifths of the voting population will turn out to take part in Catalonia’s December 21st elections. The snap […]

Somali graduates Abbas Mohamad Mahdi , 28 (left), and Ahmed Derow Isak, 32, from Mogadishu, are determined to return home and work in their home country after completing both their Bachelor and Master degrees in Information Technology. Pix by Amran Hami  SINTOK: Despite the unrest in some parts of their country, two Somali graduates from […]

Passengers on an EasyJet flight from London to Geneva on Sunday night were left in shock after they realized a stowaway had managed to board the plane and shut himself in the toilet. Photo: Pascal Pavani/AFP Before the plane took off from London Gatwick airport the crew noticed that a toilet was displaying the ‘in […]

The Supreme court unanimously upheld the October rerun of the Kenyan presidential election [Reuters] Kenya’s Supreme Court has unanimously upheld President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election victory in a rerun vote that was held in October. Opposition candidate Raila Odinga had said the results of the first election were invalid and challenged the processes of the second […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel was left scrambling for ways to drag Germany out of crisis on Monday after high-stakes talks to form a new government collapsed, potentially forcing Europe’s top economy into snap elections. Christian Lindner speaking on Sunday about the failure of a potential “Jamaica coalition.” Photo: DPA. Germany now faces weeks, if not months […]