Stefan Löfven after meeting parliament speaker Andreas Norlén on Monday. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT Social Democrats leader Stefan Löfven has not yet managed to form a new government, he said at a press conference on Monday. Sweden has never waited so long for a government to be formed before.After an inconclusive election left neither of the […]
Continue reading …AA Photo Saudi Arabia’s chief prosecutor has arrived in Istanbul as part of an investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Attorney General Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb landed at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport on a private plane overnight. He met with Istanbul Chief Prosecutor Irfan Fidan at the Istanbul Çağlayan Courthouse in an approximately one-hour and […]
Continue reading …(File pix) Photo shows a Lion Air aircraft. Archive image for illustration purposes only. Reuters Photo AKARTA: Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said on Monday a Lion Air passenger flight from Jakarta, the capital, to the city of Pangkal Pinang off the island of Sumatra, had crashed into the sea. “It has been confirmed that […]
Continue reading …US Muslim-American community raise tens of thousands of dollars for victims of shooting attack [Cathal McNaughton/ Reuters] The Muslim-American community has raised tens of thousands of dollars in a crowdfunding effort to help the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left at least 11 people dead and six wounded. The campaign, which is hosted by Muslim […]
Continue reading …From left: Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and French President Emmanuel Macron pose for a photo ahead of a summit on Syria, in Istanbul, on Oct. 27, 2018. (DHA Photo) The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany held talks on Syria at a Saturday summit in […]
Continue reading …© Screengrab Google Street View. Pittsburgh police have taken a suspect into custody after multiple casualties were reported in a shooting at a synagogue in the Pennsylvania city. A police spokesperson said that several people had died and that three officers had been shot. The gunman was injured in an exchange of gunfire with police, […]
Continue reading …President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in Istanbul ahead of the crucial summit on Syria, which will also be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. Merkel arrived in Istanbul on mid-Saturday for the summit and greeted by Istanbul Governor Vasip Şahin and Metropolitan Mayor […]
Continue reading …The fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has said she turned down an invitation to the White House by US President Donald Trump because she believed it was aimed at influencing public opinion in his favour. Turkish television channel HaberTurk on Friday that she would not visit the president until sincere efforts to find her fiancee’s killers […]
Continue reading …Ethiopian lawmakers yesterday unanimously elected the country’s first female president, days after approving one of the world’s few “gender-balanced” Cabinets. As seasoned diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde, 68, takes the largely ceremonial post, many celebrated Africa’s only current female head of state. Africa’s first female president, Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left office this year. Sahle-Work has […]
Continue reading …Major Gen. Kim Do-gyun of South Korea, right, and his North Korean counterpart Lt. Gen. An Ik-san shake hands ahead of a general-level military meeting at Tongilgak, the North’s side of the truce village of Panmunjeom inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Friday. / Joint Press Corps PANMUNJEOM/SEOUL _ The two Koreas agreed late Friday to […]
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