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Iran’s intelligence minister on Wednesday defended a nuclear negotiator imprisoned on spying charges in a rare implied criticism of the judiciary. Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani, a Canadian-Iranian, was given a five-year prison sentence this month, with the judiciary saying he had provided “information for foreigners and had links with two espionage services”. Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani (right) was […]

Pyongyang will not give up its nuclear program under any conditions, North Korea’s Foreign Minister has emphasized, stating that the US has “lit the fuse of war” and that Washington should cease its hostile actions first. © KCNA / Reuters US President Donald Trump, who has been eagerly exchanging personal insults with North Korean leader Kim […]

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Photo: Javier Soriano/AFP Spain has given Catalonia’s separatist leader until October 16th to clarify whether he intends to push ahead with independence, warning that Madrid could take control of the region if it insisted on breaking away. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has vowed to do everything in his power […]

A firefighter works to put out hot spots on a fast-moving wind-driven wildfire in Orange, California, Oct. 9, 2017. Share Thursday’s weather forecast for northern California calls for high winds and low humidity – conditions that make it close to impossible to contain the 22 major wildfires burning north of San Francisco. The fires are […]

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s military commanders said Wednesday they were nearing a military offensive targeting the Islamic State’s last havens in Iraq in western Anbar. MIraqi government forces are seen near the Falahat village west of Fallujah on June 27, 2016. Iraqi forces took the Islamic State group’s last positions in the city of Fallujah on […]

Police outside the detention centre. Photo: Thomas Johansson/TT A flight deporting refugees from Sweden to Afghanistan departed on Tuesday evening despite protests from human rights organizations and members of the public. The chartered plane left Gothenburg’s Landvetter airport with ten Afghans, some of whom arrived in Sweden as unaccompanied minors, whose requests for asylum in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump challenged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to “compare IQ tests,” delivering a sharp-edged ribbing that threw a bright spotlight on his seemingly shaky relationship with his top diplomat. The White House insisted the president was only joking. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, speaks following a meeting […]

China sent a guided-missile frigate, two fighter jets and a helicopter to warn off the USS ‘Chafee’ near disputed islands in the South China Sea, accusing the US of damaging the country’s sovereignty and security interests in the region. FILE PHOTO. CNS Huangshan (FFG-570) © Wikipedia Beijing condemned the mission of the guided-missile destroyer USS […]

Iraq’s Federal Judicial Authority  Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq ordered on Wednesday the arrest of officials in charge of Kurdistan’s commission that supervised the highly divisive referendum on independence from Iraq in September 25th. The Higher Judicial Council said the Rusafa investigation court in Baghdad ordered the arrest of commission officials based on a petition filed by […]

Deputies of the State Duma from the Liberal Democratic Part of Russia (LDPR), who visited North Korea (the DPRK) in early October, were asked to support the intention of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to fight back the United States. A delegation of three LDPR members paid a visit to Pyongyang on October 2-6, […]