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Photo: AFP Austria’s far-right FPÖ party on Tuesday agreed to enter talks on forming a coalition government with incoming chancellor Sebastian Kurz, offering a fresh boost to populist parties in Europe. The conservative chancellor, 31, invited the FPÖ (Freedom Party) for talks, paving the way for the party to return to power nearly two decades after it […]

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy appealed to Spain’s Senate for the approval of article 155 measures to intervene in Catalonia’s autonomy and remove its regional government. File photo of Mariano Rajoy. Photo: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP “I ask your support for the agreement reached by the cabinet last Saturday. The situation is exceptional and the consequences very […]

U.S. President Donald Trump displays a presidential public health emergency declaration on the nation’s opioid crisis in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 26, 2017. © Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Calling the opioid epidemic “the worst drug crisis in America,” President Donald Trump declared it a nationwide public health emergency […]

Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre (3rd from the right) visits Somali man injured in the deadly terror attack in Mogadishu, Oct. 26, 2017 (AA Photo) Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre on Thursday met the injured victims of of the recent Mogadishu blast who have been receiving treatment in a hospital in Ankara. Thirty-five […]

A man holds the Kurdish flag on September 4, 2011 during a demonstration in Stockholm against operations by Iran and Turkey against Kurdish separatist rebels in Iraq. AFP PHOTO /JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images) Erbil (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have launched an attack against the Kurdish Peshmerga troops deployed in northwestern Nineveh, […]

Anti-riot officers watched from strategic locations and patrolled around polling stations during the exercise that Opposition supporters have largely ignored. In Kibera, they chased after residents who burned tyres and blocked roads in a show of support for NASA leader Raila Odinga who was President Uhuru Kenyatta’s main rival. Raila and his running mate Kalonzo […]

The scene of a truck explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, this month that killed more than 400 people.CreditMohamed Abdiwahab/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images MOGADISHU, Somalia — On Oct. 14, a truck carrying about two tons of homemade explosives blew up near Zoobe Junction, one of the busiest streets in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. The blast sent […]

Russia’s Air and Space Forces are to receive state-of-the-art S-500 Prometey (“Prometheus”) anti-aircraft missile systems by 2020, Lieutenant-General Viktor Gumenny, Deputy Commander-in-Chief  of the Russian Air Force said. Russia has been developing the new system since 2011. Generally speaking, experts believe that the S-500 can be attributed to the first generation  of systems of anti-space […]

A school in southern Sweden was evacuated on Thursday morning after a student “joked” about carrying out a mass shooting. File photo: Johan Nilsson/TT The student behind the threat is now being investigated for preparation to commit murder, though police have said it is likely his social media post was not meant seriously. The boy […]

Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is seen on a video screen as he addresses his supporters during a ceremony of the latest day of Ashoura in Beirut. (Reuters) The US House of Representatives on Wednesday backed new sanctions on Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, part of an effort to take a tough line against Tehran […]