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Anti-Pakistan protests took place in cities across India after killing of 42 paramilitary personnel in Kashmir [Narinder Nanu/ AFP India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised a “strong response” to a car bombing in Kashmir that killed at least 42 troops, with New Delhi calling for “the complete isolation of Pakistan” for harbouring the armed group behind the […]

President Donald Trump announced a two-step maneuver that could appease frustrated supporters by keeping the government open and declaring a national emergency to get more money for a border wall. | Joe Raedle/Getty Image Two months of feuding with congressional Democrats and the longest government shutdown in history has exacted a heavy political toll from […]

Warsaw, Poland – A United States-led two-day conference on “peace and security” in the Middle East started on Wednesday – a gathering denounced by uninvited Iran as “dead on arrival”. The meeting was first announced last month by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after his strongly worded anti-Iran speech in Cairo and has been widely perceived as […]

The Ankara City Hospital complex hosts eight different hospitals specializing in different fields of medicine. Ankara City Hospital yesterday started admitting patients ahead of its official opening ceremony. Dubbed Europe’s biggest hospital by officials, the enormous complex has 3,623 beds and employs 12,000 members of staff The Ankara City Hospital, the latest addition to Turkey’s […]

In 2018, the ICJ court ruled that the US must lift sanctions on humanitarian goods to Iran [Yves Herman/Reuters] On Wednesday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to decide reach a verdict on a bid by Iranto recover $2bn in frozen assets that the United States says must be paid to victims of attacks it blamed […]

Russia may donate 50,000 tons of wheat to North Korea this year, a Russian lawmaker said during a meeting with DPRK ambassador to Moscow Kim Hyong Jun on Monday, as part of ongoing humanitarian assistance to the country and in response to the North’s continued food shortages. The meeting in Moscow also addressed North Korean illegal […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, February 10, 2019. Credit: Emil Salman At a rally celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, a senior Iranian commander threatened to ‘raze Tel Aviv to the ground’ if the U.S. attacks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Monday evening to a threat issued […]

AA Photo Four soldiers died after a military helicopter crashed near a residential area in Istanbul’s Çekmeköy district on the Asian side, Governor Ali Yerlikaya said Monday. Ambulances and rescue crews were immediately dispatched to Kirazlıdere neighborhood, where the crash took place. The military staff pulled from the crashed helicopter were transferred to Sancaktepe Hospital, […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un makes a speech on Feb. 8, the 71st anniversary of the establishment of the North Korean military, at the Ministry of People‘s Armed Forces. (Yonhap News) If the North Korean munitions factories meant for weapon production were being used to make agricultural or construction machinery, could we believe it? It’s […]

President Moon Jae-in speaks at the start of a weekly meeting with his senior presidential secretaries at Cheong Wa Dae, Monday. Yonhap President Moon Jae-in expressed the hope Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un can build off their first meeting to make “more specific and substantial progress” at their […]