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New legislative body sacks dissident chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega hours after troops block entrance to her office. Ortega had asked a local court to halt the inauguration of Venezuela’s new 545-member assembly [File:Reuters] Venezuela‘s controversial new assembly has voted to remove the country’s dissident attorney general, Luisa Ortega, after security forces surrounded the entrance to […]

Senior administration aides postponed the announcement at the urging of United Nations and State Department officials. | Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images An opportunity to hit North Korea with new United Nations sanctions has sidelined President Donald Trump’s bid to punish China for its alleged unfair trade practice. The White House had been preparing for a Friday announcement in […]

FILE PHOTO Launch of Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying Soyuz-MS spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome © Maksim Blinov / Sputnik The new US sanctions on Russia have angered the Kremlin, especially after Donald Trump promised to repair relations. With the American president increasingly looking a busted flush, Moscow is likely to deliver a forceful response. In the […]

Paul Kagame cast his vote in Kigali [Jean Bizimana/Reuters] Rwanda’s incumbent leader Paul Kagame has sealed a landslide victory in presidential elections, granting him a third term in office and extending his 17 years in power. With 80 percent of votes accounted for, the 59-year-old former guerrilla leader secured 98.66 percent, the National Electoral Commission’s […]

AA Photo Ankara, Doha and Tehran want to discuss land trade routes on the sidelines of the oath-taking ceremony of Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rouhani on Saturday, Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said Friday. “We’re thinking about alternatives for land trade routes with Qatar but the easiest way is passing through Iran,” Zeybekci told Anadolu Agency […]

M© nullplus / Getty Images A Muslim woman who rented a private vacation residence in France was reportedly made to pay €490 (US$575) because she swam in the property’s communal pool while wearing a burkini. The owner said the pool had to be emptied and cleaned after her swim. The woman, referred to as ‘Fadila’ […]

Two Jordanian men were killed and an Israeli man was seriously wounded by gunfire at the Israeli embassy in Amman. Two Jordanians have been killed and an Israeli wounded by gunfire in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan’s capital Amman, the kingdom’s Public Security Directorate said. The shooting took […]

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The United States said on Friday it took part in a July 30 raid that Somalia’s government has already said killed a senior member of an al Shabaab network, which Mogadishu blames for several Islamist bombings. The Somali information ministry said on Monday the attack near the southern town of Torotoroow targeted […]

Fully-veiled Muslim women in Hesse. Photo: DPA. The case of a Muslim pupil refusing to remove her niqab triggered debate in Lower Saxony. Now a new law may mean that full-face Islamic veils will no longer be allowed in state schools. The state of Lower Saxony is expected to announce a ban on face veils […]

As if the news out of North Korea wasn’t bad enough, things might get a lot worse within the next 18 months. We should not be surprised if the Communist dictatorship develops a hydrogen bomb – the ultimate atomic weapon – with the potential to kill millions of people. A Defense Department official I spoke […]