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A handout photo made available by the Savannah Professional Firefighters Association on 02 May 2018 shows an apparent military aircraft crash outside of Savannah, in Port Wentworth, Georgia. (EPA Photo) An Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane on a training mission crashed Wednesday along a road near a Georgia airport, killing at least five National […]

The refugee accommodation in Ellwangen. Photo: DPA A police operation took place in Baden-Württemberg after about 200 migrants used force to prevent the deportation of a Congolese man on Tuesday. The 23-year-old man was to be deported from where he was staying, a refugee accommodation in the small town of Ellwangen. But the police decided […]

After the National Assembly voted 56-45 not to elect him prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan made his way to Yerevan’s Republic Square where tens of thousands of his supporters were following the confirmation hearing live, on large outdoor screens. To a thundering applause, Pashinyan called on the people to ramp up their civil disobedience by blocking all roads, […]

When Robert Mueller was appointed last May, he assumed control of a pre-existing Justice Department probe into Russian election interference. | Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump might be able to get rid of special counsel Robert Mueller — but he can’t kill off the Russia probe. Trump aides and associates have long warned him […]

UN Photo/Ilyas AhmedThe town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region of Somalia as seen from the air submerged in flood waters from the Shabelle river on 30 April 2018. Belet Weyne is currently experiencing its worst flooding ever and over 150,000 people have been displaced. United Nations agencies in Somalia have stepped up their […]

At least three people were killed and others wounded in a suicide attack on the High National Elections Commission in Ghoat Shaal district of Tripoli on Wednesday. Security sources said the attack was carried out by three gunmen, two of them blew themselves up and the other was killed in an exchange of fire with […]

Two Chinese submersibles finished a three-day joint operation, the first of its kind in the country’s deep sea exploration, to detect a cold seep in the Pearl River Mouth Basin in the South China Sea. Unmanned submersible Haima, or “seahorse”, and manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi, or “deep sea warrior”, on board scientific survey ships Haiyang 6 and Tansuo 1 respectively, carried […]

Have North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his regime changed? Or is it just part of clever tricks to polish his image and earn sanctions relief? This might be one common question in everyone’s minds after witnessing the historic inter-Korean summit last Friday between President Moon Jae-in and Kim. The North’s recalcitrant leader swept many […]

  It’s the second time in six months a mosque in Mubi has been targeted At least 24 people have been killed in a double suicide attack on a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria, police say. More than a dozen were hurt in the explosions in the town of Mubi on Tuesday. Abdullahi Yerima, […]

AFP The French government was under pressure on Wednesday to explain how hundreds of anti-capitalist protesters were able to run amok in Paris on Tuesday, torching McDonald’s restaurant, cars and bus stops. France’s interior minister promised Wednesday to  boost security at protests after hooded youths ran amok at May Day      demonstrations in Paris, torching […]