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Jim Lo Scalzo – Pool/Getty Images “We’re not getting the job done,” President Trump said Monday when asked about the project his former chief strategist Stephen Bannon is embarking on to unseat nearly every Republican incumbent senator running for re-election. “And I’m not going to blame myself. I’ll be honest: They are not getting the job done.” […]

Wounded Somalis arrive in Ankara for treatment late Monday. (AA Photo)  Turkey’s deputy prime minister has announced that 35 Somalis, including three children, injured in Saturday’s truck bombing in capital Mogadishu, arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara late Monday, while Somali politicians expressed their gratitude for Turkey’s help. Video : 35  Somalis injured in Mogadishu […]

US Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to work closely with European allies as it develops its new Iran policy. President Trump speaks about the Iran nuclear deal in the White House in Washington, on October 13, 2017. (Reuters) “This is something […]

This US Air Force handout photo taken on August 9, 2015 shows F-16 Fighting Falcons sitting on the tarmac at the Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey. (AP Photo) The U.S. military said Monday it conducted deadly nighttime airstirkes against Daesh fighters at the group’s training camps in central Yemen, in the first such attack […]

North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador has warned the UN General Assembly that the crisis on the Korean Peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.” A fire drill of ballistic rockets by Hwasong artillery units of the KPA Strategic Force © KCNA / Reuters Kim In-ryong said North […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 16, 2017. (REUTERS Photo) North Korea warned countries at the United Nations on Monday in a statement: don’t join the United States in military action against the Asian […]

EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini said she would visit Washington early next month to urge U.S. lawmakers not to pull out of the Iran deal. The EU is to dispatch its chief diplomat Federica Mogherini to Washington next month to fight for the Iran nuclear deal after US President Donald Trump threatened to tear it […]

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro shows his ballot after casting a vote for a constitutional assembly in Caracas on Sunday. (Miraflores Press Office/Associated Press) The Liberal government denounced Sunday’s vote for a new legislative superbody in Venezuela that gives President Nicolas Maduro sweeping powers to reshape the country’s […]

Austria’s far-right looked set on Monday to return to power in a coalition with conservative “whizz-kid” Sebastian Kurz, the world’s youngest leader-in-waiting, in a fresh triumph for European populists. Sebastian Kurz aves to supporters during the ÖVP’s election even on Sunday. Photo: AFP The expected rightward shift in the wealthy European Union member state will pose […]

Footage and pictures emerged showing some ISIS militants handing themselves over to the US-backed Democratic Syrian Forces. (Supplied) Syria’s Raqqa Civil Council said on Sunday that al-Tabaqah’s city council has agreed to host ISIS militants who departed Raqqa in accordance with an agreement made earlier this week. The accepted request was filed by residents in […]