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Photo: AFP There was anger and shock in France this week after it emerged that prosecuters had deemed an 11-year-old’s sexual relationship with a 28-year-old man was consensual. The case, which made national headlines and led to anger among children’s rights groups, centers around a sexual encounter that took place between a 28-year-old man and […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (file photo) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has given the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) three days to hand over control of its airports if it seeks to avoid an international air embargo, a retaliatory move the Iraqi government says will take against the independence-seeking region in the wake of a […]

Staff writer, Al Arabiya EnglishTuesday, 26 September 2017 Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a historic royal decree granting driving licenses for women in the kingdom as of next June. The royal decree issued on Tuesday also ordered the establishment of a high-level committee of involving the ministries of internal affairs, finance, labor and social […]

FILE PHOTO A Topol ICBM ground-based mobile launcher © Alexei Danichev / Sputnik Russia has conducted a successful test launch of the RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile, the Defense Ministry said in a statement, adding that the test data would be used for the development of future missile penetration aids. The test launch was performed […]

Firefighters at the mosque in Vivalla, Örebro. Photo: Kicki Nilsson/TT An arrest has been made after a blaze raged through a mosque in central Sweden during the early hours of Tuesday. Firefighters were called to the mosque in the Vivalla area of Örebro shortly after 2am on Tuesday. Five hours later they were still battling […]

FILE PHOTO © Zha Chunming / Global Look Press Chinese servicemen have held their first military drills at China’s first overseas base in the Horn of Africa in Djibouti. Less than two months after officially inaugurating their first foreign naval military base abroad in Djibouti, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA) held live-fire drills for […]

“Once again Jerusalem proves that it is the heart of the conflict with the occupation,” Hamas spokesman Hazim Qassim said in a statement on his Facebook page. “The operation this morning in northern Jerusalem is a new chapter of the Jerusalem intifada and… an affirmation that our uprising youth will continue to fight until the […]

AA Photo President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday that Turkey considers the independence referendum in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) null and void and illegitimate regardless of its results, adding that there may be economic and military repercussions. Speaking at a forum in Istanbul, Erdoğan stated that the Habur border gate with Iraq, which […]

President of the Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani has cast his voice in the historic referendum on independence early Monday morning in Pirmam, near the capital of Erbil, in a bid to begin the process to separate from Iraq.  Independence Referendum Kurdistan Erbil Iraq Masoud Barzani ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – President of the Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani has […]

Iranian border guards Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iranian artillery forces carried out an intense bombardment on the borders with Kurdistan, hours before a Kurdish vote on independence from Iraq, news reports said. Alsumaria News said the bombardment targeted border areas in Guoman, northeast of Kurdish capital, Erbil. The network’s reporter saw columns of smoke rising from the […]