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Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: DPA Germany’s foreign and justice ministers warned Tuesday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was using “propaganda” to divide their country’s three-million-strong ethnic Turkish community. In a tough-worded commentary published amid a raging bilateral row, they warned that Germany’s democratic culture was at threat from the “radicalisation” of Erdogan’s politics, spreading through […]

An alleged member of the terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week admitted to a judge on Tuesday that he and other suspects had planned a bigger attack, a judicial source said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal, 21, was the first of four surviving suspects to be questioned in Madrid’s National Court, which deals with […]

© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik Moscow has fired back at the latest round of US sanctions targeting Russian interests, as Washington blacklisted one Russian company and four individuals for their alleged dealings with North Korea. On Tuesday, the US Treasury revealed it had imposed sanctions on 16 Russian and Chinese nationals and companies for their […]

US troops in Afghanistan. Photo: DPA The German government said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan was “the right thing to do.” “It is the right thing to do and we have been requesting for some time that the end of operations there be based on realities […]

Adm. Harry Harris talks during a press conference at Osan Air Base in South Korea. (Yonhap) The top US military commander in the Asia-Pacific region said Tuesday that the diplomatic approach is the “stronger and more powerful” means to resolve the standoff with North Korea, adding such efforts should be backed by credible military capability. […]

India, UK and NATO express support for US president’s policy, but Pakistan, China and Russia offer little enthusiasm. Donald Trump has committed the US to an open-ended conflict in Afghanistan [Reuters] Politicians from across the world have reacted to US President Donald Trump’s new strategy for the war in Afghanistan. MORE TO THIS STORY Trump vows US […]

  FILE PHOTO: A soldier salutes from atop vehicle carrying a missile past a stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during the parade, in Pyongyang. © Damir Sagolj / Reuters A North Korean envoy to a UN disarmament forum has refused to negotiate its nuclear program, accusing the US and South Korea of […]

Slain Al-Shabaab operative Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein alias Ali Jabal  The Somali militant group Al-Shabaab has confirmed the killing of its senior operative Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein alias Ali Jabal, in a US air strike. The group confirmed the death in a message of condolence and congratulation to Muslims, through its media outlets. “This is […]

Sigmar Gabriel with wife Anke. Photo: DPA German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has accused supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of threatening his wife amid a festering diplomatic crisis. He said that Erdogan’s strident style “had apparently led some to feel motivated to try to threaten and harass my wife,” in comments broadcast Tuesday […]

The rule allowed Muslim men to divorce their wives simply by uttering the word ‘talaq’ three times. MMany Muslim women in India had called for an end to the ‘triple talaq’ instant divorce law [Amit Dave/Reuters India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the use of a Muslim divorce law until the government frames new legislation, […]