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A Somali soldier walks near the wreckage of vehicles at the scene of the blast in Mogadishu (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP) At least six people have been killed, including two children, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside a district headquarters in Somalia’s capital. Captain Mohamed Hussein said the bomber tried to speed through […]

CHEMNITZ, Germany (Reuters) – Supporters and opponents of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal immigration policy hold rival demonstrations on Saturday in the city of Chemnitz, where the fatal stabbing of a German man by two migrants sparked violent far-right protests. More than 1,200 policemen will keep watch over the rallies in the eastern city, where deep […]

A Palestinian man sits outside an aid distribution center run by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip September 1, 2018. (Reuters Photo) Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the U.S. over its decision to end funding for the UN Palestine refugee agency. “The decision of the […]

© Screenshot / Alex Baysha / YouTube A passenger recorded a short video after a Russian Boeing 737 slid off a runway in Sochi, crashing into a river and catching fire on both wings. “We crashed, but it’s OK, I guess,” a man can be heard calmly saying in a short clip recorded minutes after the […]

President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ducey came as the Arizona governor weighs whom to appoint to the seat following the death of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, who passed away last week. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Donald Trump and Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey spoke by phone this week — a conversation […]

WASHINGTON—A deal on North American trade remained possible, but not certain, on early Friday morning after the Trudeau government and Trump administration met into Thursday night to try to hit a U.S.-imposed Friday deadline. President Donald Trump said a deal was “close,” and that Canada would make a deal “at some point,” but that he […]

Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia © Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Russia has decided to halt discussions of a United Nations Security Council report on North Korea, due to disagreement on some of its points and concern over parts of it being leaked before publication, Moscow’s UN envoy has said. Russia has blocked the […]

Italy plans to ask the EU to rotate the ports that accept migrants rescued at sea. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFP Rome will on Thursday ask the European Union to rotate the ports where migrants rescued at sea disembark, Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta said, with France and Spain expected to top the list. Trenta will put the […]

Russia’s foreign minister is the latest official to warn the US against using a possible chemical weapons provocation to justify a new strike against Syrian forces. He said Moscow warned the West not to play with fire in Syria. Sergey Lavrov reiterated the warning that a staged chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Idlib province may […]

U.S. President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Aug. 30, 2018. (AFP Photo) In an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would consider withdrawing from the World Trade Organization if “they don’t shape up,” in a […]