France opens anti-terror probe into Marseille knife attack
1 October, 2017 Comments Off on France opens anti-terror probe into Marseille knife attack
Officers patrol Marseille’s main train station after a knife attack. Photo: Bertrand Langlois/AFP A suspected Islamist knifeman killed at least two people at the main train station in the French Mediterranean port city of Marseille on Sunday before being shot and killed by soldiers patrolling there, local officials and police said. “Two victims have been […]
Continue reading …Clashes at polling stations as Catalonia holds independence referendum
1 October, 2017 Comments Off on Clashes at polling stations as Catalonia holds independence referendum
Spanish police clear the entrance of a polling station in Barcelona. Photo: AFP Clashes broke out at polling stations across the northeastern region as police attempted to seize ballot boxes and prevent the ‘illegal’ vote on independence. Voting is going ahead across Catalonia today Riot police charged crowds of people at polling stations in Barcelona […]
Continue reading …Germany celebrates first gay marriages
1 October, 2017 Comments Off on Germany celebrates first gay marriages
Germany is the 15th European nation to legalise gay marriage. Photo: Tobias Schwarz/AFP Germany celebrates its first gay marriages on Sunday as same-sex unions become legal after decades of struggle, but campaigners say the battle for equal rights isn’t over yet. Wedding bells will ring out in Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover and other German cities where […]
Continue reading …Gothenburg neo-Nazi demonstration ends after hours of unrest
30 September, 2017 Comments Off on Gothenburg neo-Nazi demonstration ends after hours of unrest
Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT A neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) demonstration in central Gothenburg has ended, two hours after police permission for the march expired. The neo-Nazi group was forced to bring its march through Gothenburg to a premature end but has reportedly threatened new demonstrations – possibly without police permission. A huge effort by […]
Continue reading …Iranian, Iraqi government forces to hold joint border drills
30 September, 2017 Comments Off on Iranian, Iraqi government forces to hold joint border drills
Iranian and Iraqi central government forces are to hold joint military exercises near their borders, Iran’s state television reported on Saturday, as part of Tehran’s effort to support Baghdad after the Kurdish independence referendum on Monday. In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, a Turkish army tank moves, in Silopi, near the Habur border […]
Continue reading …Spectre of N. Korean atmospheric nuclear test prompts emergency plans in Seoul & Tokyo
30 September, 2017 Comments Off on Spectre of N. Korean atmospheric nuclear test prompts emergency plans in Seoul & Tokyo
FILE PHOTO © Reuters South Korean banks and utility companies are drawing up plans to construct shielding and potentially move operations overseas to protect against North Korea as further provocation from Pyongyang is expected on October 10. South Korean banks and vital infrastructure facilities, including nuclear power plants and government ministries, have reportedly been hacked by Pyongyang […]
Continue reading …Spain heads for showdown over Catalan independence referendum
30 September, 2017 Comments Off on Spain heads for showdown over Catalan independence referendum
Photos: AFP Spain is on tenterhooks as the crisis between Catalan separatist leaders and the central government reaches fever-pitch ahead of an independence referendum banned by Madrid on Sunday. The showdown is one of Spain’s biggest political crises since the end of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco four decades ago and it has Catalonia deeply […]
Continue reading …Trump sets US refugee cap for next year at 45,000
30 September, 2017 Comments Off on Trump sets US refugee cap for next year at 45,000
M AFP Photo The United States will admit a maximum of 45,000 refugees during the 2018 fiscal year, President Donald Trump said in a memorandum to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and released by the White House on Friday. The cap, the lowest in decades, was proposed by the administration in a report to Congress […]
Continue reading …‘Not invaluable, but worthless’: Moscow laughs off UK claims of ‘major’ contribution to ISIS defeat
30 September, 2017 Comments Off on ‘Not invaluable, but worthless’: Moscow laughs off UK claims of ‘major’ contribution to ISIS defeat
FILE PHOTO: Servicemen stand near a British Tornado jet preparing to takeoff at the RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus © Reuters The Russian Ministry of Defense has issued a scathing rebuke to a claim by UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon that Britain has made a “major contribution” to “crippling” Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. “As […]
Continue reading …More than 40 IS militants killed, as second phase of Hawija offensive starts
29 September, 2017 Comments Off on More than 40 IS militants killed, as second phase of Hawija offensive starts
Members of Iraqi Federal Police carry their weapon at the frontline during a battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Twenty five Islamic State militants have been killed, few hours after offensives were launched to free the group’s holdout in southwestern Kirkuk, the Interior Ministry […]
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