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Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad, who is set to become the world’s oldest leader aged 92, was born in July 1925. We take a look at some other pensioners, past and present, who have occupied the world stage. Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor, England, April 22, 2018 Chris Jackson/Pool via Reuters Britain’s monarch turned 92 […]

Seven Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza protests. (Reuters) Israeli gunfire killed seven Palestinians and wounded at least 35 other protesters along the Gaza border on Monday, health officials said, as demonstrators streamed to the frontier on the day the United States prepared to open its embassy in Jerusalem. Protests intensified on the 70th […]

While final results for Iraq’s parliamentary election are expected later on Monday, early results show Iran-backed paramilitary commander Hadi al-Amiri’s bloc to be in second place, and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s list in third. Results from eight provinces are yet to be announced, including from Nineveh – which has the second-largest number of seats after […]

A new road sign indicating the way to the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem is set up on May 7. | Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images When President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and promised last December to move the U.S. Embassy there, the predictions of violence came fast and furious. “Trump’s Jerusalem Plan Is […]

© Murad Sezer / Reuters A dramatic collision took place at Istanbul-Ataturk International Airport, as a South Korean Asiana passenger plane sliced into the tail of a Turkish Airlines plane while taxiing on the runaway. Footage has emerged showing the moment the two planes collided on Sunday. The South Korean Asiana A330 airplane, which was […]

Anti-terror policemen stand guard following Monday morning’s bomb blast at the Surabaya Police headquarters. (Reuters/Beawiharta) The East Java Police have announced that 25 people were killed and dozens injured in a string of suicide bombings that three families perpetrated in the province. Thirteen of the 25 dead victims were the perpetrators, East Java Police Chief Insp. […]

Indonesian police officers patrol outside a church following an alleged suicide bomb attack in Surabaya on May 13. (AFP/Juni Kriswanto) Indonesians woke up on Sunday morning to reports about bombing attacks at three churches in Surabaya, East Java, flooding their social media timelines. Photos and videos of the aftermath of the bombings, some of them graphic, spread […]

“…Trump is moving in exactly the wrong direction and we see the cruelty of his immigration policies …,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said of President Donald Trump. | Getty  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said President Donald Trump and his administration are “heartless” toward immigrants. “I think it is heartless. I think the entire […]

French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb (2L) in a meeting with Chiefs of Staff at The Ministry of Interior in Paris on May 13th. Photo: AFP A knifeman who killed a man and wounded four other people in a suspected terror attack in central Paris was born in Chechnya and his parents have been taken into […]

AA Photo  Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s coalition is leading in the country’s parliamentary election, a coalition spokesman said Sunday. “Preliminary results show that the Victory Coalition is leading the polls,” Hussein al-Adli told Anadolu Agency. Meanwhile, a source with the Al-Wataniya Alliance, which is led by former vice president Iyad Allawi, said it was […]