Anti-aircraft defense system S-400 Triumph of an air defense regiment. © Sergey Malgavko / Sputnik Turkey-US relations have generally been quite bad and getting worse since the attempted coup against President Erdogan in the summer of 2016, explains Adam Garrie, Managing Editor at the Duran. TrendsTurkey crackdown on Kurds NATO member Turkey announced it made down payment for […]
Continue reading …Would-be immigrants atop a border fence separating Morocco from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla. Photo: AFP The number of migrants arriving in Spain so far this year has soared more than 88 percent from the same period in 2016, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said on Tuesday. Speaking in a parliamentary commission on […]
Continue reading …FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14. KCNA / Reuters A radioactive gas, xenon-133, has been detected from the recent North Korean nuclear test, the South’s nuclear watchdog said, adding that it is still unclear whether it was from a hydrogen bomb test as Pyongyang claimed. Read […]
Continue reading …School students with their mobiles. AFP French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has touched off a public debate about banning phones in schools as he seeks to implement a campaign pledge by President Emmanuel Macron. In an interview with Express magazine, the minister suggested that pupils might be asked to deposit their phones in secure boxes […]
Continue reading …Deir Ezzor/Homs, SANA – Syrian Arab Army units continued operations to secure the perimeter of Deir Ezzor Military Airport and Regiment 137, in conjunction with concentrated operations to eliminate ISIS terrorists form the province’s southeastern countryside. SANA’s correspondent said that an army unit that established control over al-Thurda Mountains and met with the Airport’s garrison a few days […]
Continue reading …Myanmar leader faces mounting criticism globally over ethnic cleansing campaign targeting country’s Rohingya Muslims Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not attend the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York. A spokesperson for her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), told Reuters news agency late on Tuesday that the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Continue reading …Photo: DPA Eight Afghans expelled from Germany arrived in Kabul on Wednesday as Berlin resumed deportations of rejected asylum seekers from the war-torn country months after a huge truck bomb hit the Afghan capital. Germany suspended the controversial expulsions after a sewage tanker packed with explosives detonated near the German embassy in Kabul’s diplomatic quarter […]
Continue reading …© Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation Russia is preparing to send more than 4,000 tons of materials and over 40 pieces of construction equipment to Syria to help the war-torn country in its multibillion-dollar reconstruction effort. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria, Syria war The shipment of industrial aid that is currently being readied for […]
Continue reading …Turkey accuses U.S. prosecutors and judges overseeing a case against former Economy Minister Çağlayan of being an instrument of an alleged conspiracy by U.S.-based cleric Fetullah Gulen against Ankara. Referring to the cases opened against former Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan and Erdoğan’s personnel in the US, experts stated that these are only side products of […]
Continue reading …Moskva News Agency Dozens of buildings including schools and malls in more than 12 Russian cities have been evacuated since Sunday after authorities received a series of anonymous bomb threats, the Interfax news agency reports. Interfax cited a law enforcement official in Chelyabinsk as saying that the evacuations were prompted by bomb scares across cities in Russia. “There’s reason […]
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