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Mr Cohen (left) with his lawyer Stephen M Ryan The FBI has raided the offices of Michael Cohen, the long-time personal lawyer for US President Donald Trump. Law enforcement acted on a “referral” from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Officials in New York seized “privileged communications” […]

Suja Singh Image Credit: Supplied Al Ain: An Indian woman committed suicide by jumping from the rooftop of a private Al Ain hospital’s building, Gulf News has learnt on Monday. “The woman in her early forties, Suja Singh belongs from the south Indian state of Kerala, jumped off from the hospital’s building on Sunday afternoon,” the hospital sources […]

FILE PHOTO / Reuters The Iranian president has warned the US that it will regret pulling out from the milestone 2015 nuclear deal and will see the consequences “in less than one week,” should it go ahead with the much-discussed withdrawal. “Iran will not violate the nuclear deal, but if the United States withdraws from […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press in his Jerusalem office on April 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana) Without directly addressing the predawn attack, PM says ‘we have a simple rule: If someone tries to attack you – rise up and attack him’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel will hit anyone […]

North Korea has apparently assured the United States of its willingness to talk about removing its nuclear weapons during direct contacts between officials of the two countries, according to sources here and American media reports. A Cheong Wa Dae official said Monday that Pyongyang and Washington have been in contact with each other regarding the […]

The dinner, held behind a tight security cordon, set the tone for the official part of the visit which started Monday. (SPA) Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dined with French President Emmanuel Macron at Paris’s Louvre museum on Sunday after arriving for a three-day visit. The dinner, held behind a tight security cordon, […]

Photo: AFP Violence flared in western France on Monday morning after 2,500 French police began clearing out protesters who have occupied land at Notre-Dame-des-Landes where the government had planned to build a new airport before ditching the project earlier this year. Legions of gendarmes moved in at around 6am on Monday morning with the intention […]

U.S. President Donald Trump had promised a ‘big price to pay’ for a suspected chemical attack in Syria, but the Pentagon said Sunday that airstrikes on regime forces were not being conducted ‘at this time.’ | AP DAMASCUS – Syria and its Russian ally accused Israel on Monday of carrying out a deadly dawn bombing raid […]

The seizure resulted in a standoff that lasted for several hours between airport officials and Emirati officers [FILE: Feisal Omar/Reuters] Somalia‘s government says it has seized several bags of money worth almost $10m from a plane that arrived at Mogadishu airport from the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi. The money was found in three […]

An Israeli air force F-15 fighter jet © Amir Cohen / Reuters Two Israeli F-15 fighters targeted Syria’s T-4 airbase in Homs province, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. The jets fired eight guided missiles, but five of them were shot down before they hit the airfield. In a statement on Monday, the Russian […]