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HO/PRU/AFP | Video grab from a UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) broadcast shows British PM Theresa May at the House of Commons, January 29, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday that a vote in parliament is a chance to draw a line under divisions that have prevented parliament approving a Brexit […]

  Maduro leads military exercises displaying trust to his soldiers. | Photo: EFE Venezueal Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, reiterated his support for democracy and for the government of Nicolas Maduro, saying that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) has only one president, the one elected by a majority vote in the elections of May […]

Aasia Bibi. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday dismissed the review petition filed against the acquittal of Aasia Bibi on blasphemy charges. “On merit, the review petition is dismissed,” announced Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa. The hearing was presided over by Justice Khosa, part of the three-member bench including Justice Qazi Faez Isa and […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at a meeting of the Red Crescent in Istanbul, Jan. 28, 2019. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at a meeting of the Red Crescent in Istanbul, Jan. 28, 2019 A safe zone in northern Syria has the potential to allow refugees to return home as the area will be cleared […]

(L) Sukhoi Su-27 jet © REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin; (R) Screenshot © Russian Ministry of Defense A Russian Su-27 fighter jet has warned off a US P-8а Poseidon reconnaissance plane, which was approaching the Russian maritime border in the Baltic Sea, the Defense Ministry said. The radars picked up the approaching target over the neutral waters in the Baltics and a […]

The injury to one of the yellow vest leaders could see protests lurch towards calamity and tragedy. The latest violence at the “yellow vest” demo in Paris where one of the leaders of the Gilets Jaunes was gravely wounded must act as a warning to both protesters, police and politicians, writes John Lichfield. Otherwise the […]

“I personally think it’s less than 50-50, but you have a lot of very good people on that board,” said President Donald Trump. | Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump said Sunday that there is a “less than 50-50” percent chance that congressional negotiators charged with solving the partisan impasse over his demand for a […]

© AP Photo/Fernando Llano MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. Moscow warns against interfering in the Venezuelan settlement, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, stressing that this position is Russia’s key assistance that it can provide now to Caracas. “It is most important now that Venezuelans themselves should settle all differences that can be between them in […]

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Monday met in Ankara with Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial and arbitrary executions, to discuss the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Çavuşoğlu, Callamard and accompanying experts met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Official Residence in the Turkish capital. The U.N. delegation is also expected to meet […]

 M The first bomb went off in or near the cathedral of Jolo, followed by a second blast outside the compound as government forces responded to the attack [Philippine army/AFP] President Rodrigo Duterte visited the southern Philippines where twin bomb blasts at a Roman Catholic cathedral killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 100. Duterte met top defence, military […]