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President Donald Trump and his wife Melania depart their plane in Paris. Photo: Saul Loeb / AFP  US President Donald Trump on Friday blasted calls by Emmanuel Macron for a European army to defend against threats from powers including the US as “very insulting”, setting a combative tone for his World War 1-themed visit to […]

FILE PHOTO: Kim Jong-un at a mushroom farm © AFP/ KCNA via KNS North Korean leader’s touchy gift has no radiation contamination, the South Korean presidential palace declared more than a month after the Kim Jong-un generously sent two tons of expensive pine mushrooms to the south. Kim’s delicacy had gone through essential “radiation tests” required for […]

People across Turkey on Saturday mark the 80th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey’s founder, first president and the leader of the Independence War. Atatürk died at 9:05 a.m. on Nov. 10, 1938, with the nation grinding to a standstill for sirens that have sounded at exactly the same time every year […]

Saudi Arabia says so far it has arrested 18 people and dismissed five senior government officials over the case [AP] Turkish police are ending the search for Jamal Khashoggi‘s body, but the criminal investigation into the Saudi journalist’s murder will continue, sources told Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera has learned on Friday that traces of acid were […]

Security officers run from the scene of the blast [Feisal Omar/Reuters] At least 20 people have been killed and 17 injured in explosions followed by heavy gunfire in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to police. Plumes of smoke billowed into the air on Friday as at least two car bombs went off near the popular Sahafi Hotel and […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and participants of international talks on Afghanistan pose for a photo in Moscow on November 9, 2018. (AFP) Moscow on Friday hosted international talks on Afghanistan aimed at kick starting direct negotiations between Kabul and the Taliban militant group, both of whom sent delegations. Russia hopes “through joint efforts to […]

A lone terrorist was responsible for a deadly stabbing attack that unfolded on Bourke Street in Melbourne’s CBD on Friday afternoon. One man was killed and two others injured after being stabbed by a man who set a ute alight outside the Target store near the busy intersection of Bourke and Swanston streets. The attacker, who […]

‘We don’t want to give him ammunition,’ one White House reporter said of the president. ‘At the same time, we don’t want to be a doormat and just lie down.’ White House correspondents and media outlets widely view the Trump administration’s decision to pull CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass as an assault on the […]

CNN’s Jim Acosta questions U.S. President Donald Trump during his news conference following Tuesday’s midterm U.S. congressional elections at the White House in Washington, U.S., Nov. 7, 2018. (Reuters Photo) The White House has suspended the press pass of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta after he and U.S. President Donald Trump had a heated confrontation during […]

A 28-year-old former Marine opened fire in a California country music bar packed with college students, killing 12 people including a police officer as dozens of terrified youngsters stampeded towards the door, authorities said Thursday. The gunman   who apparently killed himself   stepped into the Borderline Bar and Grill around 11:20 pm Wednesday and […]