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Photo: Xinhua/Liu Rui The US State Department issued a statement on Sunday, saying the PLA was conducting intensive training exercises over Taiwan island’s self-proclaimed southwest air defense identification zone in the past few days. The statement accused the PLA of carrying out “provocative military activities” that “undermines regional peace and stability”, adding “the US commitment […]

Jordan’s King Abdullah II. (Reuters) Jordan’s royal court Monday rejected as “distorted” claims made in the “Pandora Papers” that King Abdullah II created a network of offshore companies to build a $100 million overseas property empire. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. It said that the reports […]

A worker operates the machinery during an event to unveil a new oxygen plant at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021.AP MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia has opened the country’s first public oxygen plant as the Horn of Africa nation with one of the world’s weakest health systems combats COVID-19. The oxygen plant […]

A member of the Taliban special forces pushes a journalist (L) while covering a demonstration by female protestors outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 30, 2021. (AFP Photo)  Qatar’s top diplomat on Thursday described a recent string of rights abuses in Afghanistan as “disappointing” and called on the Taliban leadership to look to […]

Swedish artist Lars Vilks in 2012   –   Copyright  Linus Sundahl-Djerf/ASSOCIATED PRESS  The Swedish artist Lars Vilks, known for his 2007 drawing of the Prophet Muhammad and the subsequent death threats that followed, died in a car crash on Sunday. Vilks, who was largely unknown outside of Sweden before his Muhammad drawing, had been living under police protection since […]

Police and rescue teams outside the office building where a small plane crashed in the Milan suburb of San Donato on October 3rd. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and son, and all five others […]

Afghan medical staff members stand at the entrance of a hospital as they wait to receive the victimsof an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 3. — AFP An explosion outside a mosque in the Afghan capital killed at least two people on Sunday, senior Taliban officials said. The blast struck near the entrance of […]

Nadifa Mohamed is the first Somali author to be short-listed for the Booker Prize for her novel The Fortune Men.Supplied: Nadifa Mohamed Almost two decades ago, Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed was interning for a film company in London when she came across the story of a Somali seaman named Mahmood Mattan from Cardiff’s port community of […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told a televised program on Saturday night that if the Joe Biden administration is “serious” about reviving the 2015 nuclear deal it should allow releasing at least 10 billion dollars of the Iranian assets held in foreign banks. “Americans tried to contact us in New York through […]

This photo provided on Oct. 1 by the North Korean government shows what North Korea claims to be the test firing of a newly developed anti-aircraft missile in North Korea, Sept. 30. North Korea blasted the U.N. Security Council Sunday for convening a meeting on its recent missile launches, calling it “a manifestation of double-dealing […]