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Arms depot near Damascus International airport goes up in flames after series of overnight strikes blamed on Israel. Israeli strikes have hit an arms depot operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus airport, Syrian opposition sources told Al Jazeera. Witnesses said a total of five strikes occurred near the Damascus airport road, about 25km […]

A 43-year-old woman was caught carrying khat by customs after taking the Hirtshals-Larvik ferry on Friday. Customs officers discovered 82 bunches of the chewable leaf, which is illegal in Norway, weighing a total of just under eight kilograms. The woman was also carrying 128,000 kroner ($15,000) and 81 grams of gold, reports NRK. The money […]

 NEW YORK, April 27. /TASS/. US strikes on the Syrian air base violated international law and made neither military nor political sense, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with Yahoo Global News. “That was something really unacceptable because that was against international law, first of all,” Zakharova said. “It has no […]

Thousands of French police demonstrated in the Champs Elysees in Paris on Wednesday to urge both candidates in their country’s presidential runoff to “hear their anger” over difficult working conditions. Some 10,000 police, according to one of their unions, took part in the protest on the famous avenue where one of their number was killed […]

Russia works on a new-generation rocket, which is said to compete with US Falcon rockets produced by  Elon Musk’s Space X. For the time being, Russian scientists have only created a sketch of the rocket; the design stage is in progress. The works are conducted at Russia’s Space Corporation Energia. AP photo The rocket is […]

European Parliament’s (EP) Turkey rapporteur Kati Piri called on the European Union (EU) to immediately suspend Turkey’s accession negotiations if Ankara does not pledge to refrain from applying the changes stated in the constitutional package approved by the public in the April 16 referendum. Speaking to reporters ahead of a debate of the Committee on […]

 US president Donald Trump is the Swedes’ least favourite among international leaders, according to a new survey. The survey by the Gothenburg University-based SOM Institute, a centre which investigates society, public opinion and media, asked people to rate how much they like or dislike certain international leaders. On a scale from 50 (like) to -50 (dislike), […]

Overnight arrests target alleged network of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Turkey for failed coup attempt. Suspected supporters of the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen [Olcay Duzgun/Dogan News Agency/via Reuters] Turkish authorities have detained more than a thousand people suspected of having links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. The overnight crackdown was one of the […]

Anti-terror police have taken ten people into custody in a series of raids in France and Belgium, according to reports. France’s anti-terror police made the arrests during a series of raids this week.  Various media report that the arrests were connected to the January 2015 terror attacks in Paris, where Amedy Coulibaly killed five people […]

An Irish employee at payments firm Stripe was denied entry to the US last week after visiting Somalia. According to Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who tweeted about the situation, the unnamed employee was interrogated because they had a Somalian stamp in their passport. We first spotted the story via The Register. Collison tweeted the message that the […]