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Photo: AFP  French rail workers were to begin another two-day rolling strike on Thursday evening which will hit services across the country. But President Emmanuel Macron has vowed he will not back down. French rail passengers will suffer a sixth day of strikes on Friday, the national rail operator SNCF has warned, urging people to […]

S. President Donald Trump said Thursday the National Security Council would meet and that decisions on Syria will be made “soon.” Sources had indicated earlier in the day that the council would meet Thursday afternoon to make decisions regarding Syria. The meeting will take place in the wake of Trump’s tweet warning Russia to “get […]

An S-400 air defence missile system is deployed for a combat duty at the Hmeymim airbase. © Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik With the US and Russia engaged in a public row over the consequences of a possible American attack against Syria, the capabilities that Moscow has to respond to it are a major question. Washington threatened […]

The UAE has trained hundreds of troops since 2014 [Feisal Omar/Reuters] Somalia said it seized several bags of money containing $9.6m in cash from a plane arriving from the UAE. Somalia has disbanded a United Arab Emirates programme to train some of its troops in a new sign of rising tensions in bilateral relations. The […]

© Stringer, AFP | Syran army tanks enter a suburb of Douma, in eastern Ghouta, on February 18, 2018 Syrian government forces have raised their flag over the last rebel bastion in eastern Ghouta, taking full control of the town of Douma as insurgents withdraw, Russian news agencies reported Thursday, in a major victory for […]

© Jaap Arriens / Global Look Press Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed Donald Trump’s attempts to talk to Russia through a barrage of tweets on Wednesday, and warned that the US president risked worsening “an already fragile situation.” READ MORE: Putin: The world is getting more chaotic, but we hope that common sense will […]

The Tibetan Community mount a protest in Stockholm in 2009. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT A 49-year-old man has been charged in Sweden for spying on exiled Tibetans for the Chinese government. The man, who is Tibetan and worked for the pro-Tibetan “Voice of Tibet” newspaper, is accused of supplying the Chinese government with information on where […]

Air defense systems were able to detect an unidentified object in the direction of Abha International Airport and was dealt with accordingly. (Supplied) Saudi Arabia’s air defense forces said that they intercepted Houthi scout drone over Abha airport on the same day that militias fired a ballistic missile targeting the capital Riyadh. Spokesman for the Arab […]

US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley votes no while her Bolivian counterpart Sacha Sergio Llorenty Soliz votes yes on a Russian draft resolution to create a new inquiry to find blame for the chemical weapons attack last week in Douma, Syria (AFP Photo) The U.N. Security Council will meet behind closed doors Thursday to […]

The building of the Russian Foreign Ministry. © Sergey Kovalev / Global Look Press Responding to a threat from US President Donald Trump, who said Russia should prepare for “nice new and smart missiles” launched by America at Syria, Moscow said if the weapons were smart, they would target terrorists. “Smart missiles should fly towards […]