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4,000-year-old underground city allegedly belonging to a lost Byzantine dynasty has been discovered during urban transformation works in Turkey’s northern Trabzon province, reports said Monday. The area where the ancient underground city was discovered in Turkey’s Trabzon province is pictured in this undated photo (Sabah Photo) The area where the ancient underground city was discovered […]

US President Donald Trump’s inauguration kicked off a momentous and tumultuous year PHOTO: AFP  US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US ‘foolishly’ gave aid to Pakistan over the course of 15 years but Islamabad remained deceitful by providing safe havens to ‘terrorists’ from Afghanistan. “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than […]

Image captionResidents of South Korea watched the speech from the North’s leader(GETTY IMAGES) North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has said a nuclear launch button is “always on my table” and warned the US it will never be able to start a war. In a televised new year speech, he said the entire US was within […]

Millions gathered on Brazil’s Copacabana beach late Sunday to welcome 2018 in humid conditions – while a freezing North America prepared to close out the world’s New Year celebrations. © Guillaume Souvant, AFP | New Year revellers gather on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris on December 31, 2017.  A chilly Europe had already said goodbye to 2017, […]

Iranian state TV has reported that 12 people have been killed amid nationwide protests, without elaborating. Opponents of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hold a protest outside the Iranian embassy in west London. (Reuters) Among the 10 were two protesters who were shot dead overnight in the small town of Izeh in southwestern Iran, a member […]

Colorado deputy Zackari Parrish, 29, was killed during an ‘ambush-style’ attack in Denver. A New Year’s Eve domestic disturbance call sparked an “ambush-style” attack that left one deputy dead, four others injured and two civilians wounded at an apartment complex just south of Denver. The suspect fired off around 100 rounds with a rifle at […]

At least 18 people have been killed in a bombing at a funeral ceremony in eastern Afghanistan, according to local media. The attack was condemned as “an evil act” [Zabihullah Ghazi/Anadolu] The blast on Sunday took place as people gathered to pay respects to a former district chief in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, Pajhwok […]

Government officials and experts here are paying keen attention to what message North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will deliver during his New Year address. Kim Jong-Un How the situation will develop around the Korean Peninsula in 2018 could depend on the contents of his address, because a year’s tasks announced in the leader’s New Year […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell Germans that European co-operation is “the decisive question of the coming years” in a New Year’s Eve broadcast Sunday, as her conservatives eye tricky coalition talks. Photo: DPA Merkel will say that “27 states in Europe must be persuaded more strongly than ever to hold together as a community,” according […]