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© Mikhail Klementiev / Sputnik Vladimir Putin has thanked the government for their efforts in overcoming past challenges, and briefly outlined future ones, in a meeting with a cabinet that will resign on Monday, the day of the Russian President’s inauguration. “It is important to maintain and develop such new approaches and, in general, to […]

Muntazer al-Zaidi attends a rally in Baghdad on May 4, 2018 for the “Marching Towards Reform” alliance between Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr and the communist party, ahead of the May 12 parliamentary elections. (AFP Photo) The Iraqi journalist who hurled his own footwear at president George W. Bush at a press conference in Baghdad in […]

Forty-five people died in an attack by armed bandits in northern Nigeria, civilian militia members said on Sunday, amid growing levels of rural violence often involving cattle theft, robbery and kidnappings for ransom. “The 45 bodies were found scattered in the bush. The bandits pursued residents who mobilised to defend the village after overpowering them,” […]

A Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft. © Axel Schmidt / Reuters In a deepening rift between two major NATO allies, Turkey says it will retaliate if Washington stops the sale of US weapons over Ankara’s decision to buy Russian military hardware. Such a move would be “wrong” and “illogical.” “If the United States imposes sanctions on […]

President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday warned his US counterpart Donald Trump that pulling America out of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers would be a “historic remorse.” “If the US opts to pull out of the nuclear deal, it will soon realize that this decision will become a historic remorse for them,” Rouhani […]

Iranian military trucks carry surface-to-air missiles during a parade on the occasion of the country’s Army Day, on April 18, 2017, in Tehran. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare) Iran is planning to retaliate for recent deadly airstrikes in Syria attributed to the Jewish state by having its proxies fire missiles at military targets in northern Israel sometime […]

With just weeks to go before President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are expected to hold their first-ever summit, Pyongyang on Sunday criticized what it called ”misleading” claims that Trump’s policy of maximum political pressure and sanctions are what drove the North to the negotiating table. The North’s official news agency quoted […]

A man casts his vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election, in Sidon, Lebanon May 6, 2018. (Reuters Photo) Lebanon’s polling stations opened Sunday for the first parliamentary elections in nine years, with people lining up early in the morning to take part in a vote that is fiercely contested between rival groups […]

US-led coalition aircraft. File photo. Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi warplanes launched on Sunday a new wave of air raids against outposts of the Islamic State group in neighboring Syria, the latest in a series of airstrikes aimed at eliminating a terrorist threat coming from the neighboring country. Today’s air raids were launched upon directives of […]

The French government joined survivors of the 2015 extremist attacks in Paris in condemning remarks by US President Donald Trump, who said the tragedy would have ended differently if people had been carrying firearms. On Friday the 13th of November 2015, a series of coordinated attacks took place across the French capital at a concert hall, stadium, […]