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A man sets up canvas stands with European stars during a demonstration of the pro-Europe movement “Pulse of Europe” in Berlin, on May 26, 2019. (AFP Photo) The main conservative group in the European Parliament will remain the largest bloc after Sunday’s elections, but has lost ground and will no wield a majority in coalition […]

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand at attention next to Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako during a welcome ceremony at the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo on Monday. | REUTERS Trump becomes first foreign leader to meet Japan’s new emperorEmperor Naruhito greeted U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday as his first […]

Islamic State militants. File photo. Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi court has sentenced three French nationals to death by hanging for joining the Islamic State terrorist group, a court official said. It is the first death sentence to be issued by an Iraqi court for French IS members in Iraq, the official told the press […]

AA Photo An unidentified arsonist did considerable damage to a mosque in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, but there were no casualties, the mosque’s head reported on Saturday. Ömer Oral, the head of Hagen’s Great Mosque Society, told Anadolu Agency that the arson attack took place at 10.00 a.m. when the assailant set fire to a […]

FILE PHOTO © Iranian Navy Office / AFP  Iran is prepared to deploy ‘secret weapons’ against American warships, a military official in Tehran said, after the Pentagon sent three destroyers to the Persian Gulf amid a wave of increased tensions between the two states. Without mincing words, General Morteza Qorbani, an adviser to Iran’s military […]

Cyril Ramaphosa has taken the oath and has officially been sworn in as the president of the Republic of South Africa at the inauguration ceremony at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday. (News24) I stand before you having just taken the oath to be President of our beautiful country South Africa. I am humbled […]

Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is sailing the Arabian Sea [Garrett LaBarge/US Navy via AP] A US move to send more troops to the Middle East after accusing Tehran of being behind attacks on tankers in the region is “extremely dangerous … [for] international peace”, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has been quoted as saying. “Increased […]

Lluis Gene, AFP | Frans Timmermans, European Commission vice president and lead candidate of the Party of European Socialists (PES) for commission president, delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Barcelona on May 23, 2019 ahead of EU elections. Dutch pro-EU parties headed for a surprise win Thursday in European Parliament elections, defying a […]

(Yonhap) One Navy officer was killed and four others were injured Friday in an accident involving a destroyer that returned home after a mission in waters off Somalia. The accident occurred at 10:15 a.m. at a naval base in the southern port city of Jinhae when a rope used to connect the 4,400-ton Choi Young […]

In this Dec. 15, 2018, photo, invited guests take photos of the Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane deliver to Air China during a ceremony at Boeing Zhoushan 737 Completion and Delivery Center in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province. (AP Photo) The China Air Transport Association (CATA) on Friday said it estimates losses at Chinese airlines […]