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The United States and Britain banned passengers last month on several Middle Eastern airlines from carrying laptop and tablet computers onto the plane. Officials cited airline safety concerns as the reason, and pointed specifically to a February 2016 attack on a flight of the Somali airline Daallo, in which a passenger set off a bomb […]

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s political campaign was targeted by a group of Russian hackers last month, according to a report by a cybersecurity research group on Tuesday. The Pawn Storm group, which has been linked to several high-profile attacks in the West, used “phishing” techniques to try to steal personal data from Macron and […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Ministry of Defense’s War Media Cell announced, on Tuesday, that security forces managed to liberate 12 villages in al-Hadher District, south of the city of Mosul. The cell said in a statement that troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi, backed by Army Aviation, carried out an extensive operation to liberate al-Hadher District, and managed […]

Ivanka Trump (r) with Queen Maxima of the Netherlands in Belrin. Photo: DPA Ivanka Trump, on her overseas debut as the US “First Daughter” at a Berlin women’s summit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday, was quickly forced to defend her father’s attitude toward women. Sitting on a G20 panel with female leaders, Donald Trump’s […]

The military is still on alert over possible infiltration tunnels the North Koreans built, former state intelligence agency chief Nam Jae-joon said Monday during a televised debate involving nine minor presidential candidates. The former four-star general is running for South Korea’s presidency as a candidate of the minor opposition Patriotic Party. He has an approval […]

An upgraded version of the strategic Tu-160 bomber aircraft, also known as the “White Swan,” is to be passed into service only in 2022 in the amount of 30-50 pieces. This raises serious Source: (Mil.ru)concerns in the West. In March 2012, soon after his reelection, President Vladimir Putin put forward a large-scale modernization program for […]

DUBAI // A top celebrity cardiologist has urged people to ditch “white death” diets of bread, pasta, sugar and salt if the UAE is to tackle its rampant levels of diabetes. Bestselling Australian author Ross Walker, credited with changing attitudes to eating with his no-nonsense advice, on Monday told of the key health messages that […]

Tel Aviv remains so “neutral” in the Syrian conflict that even Islamic State terrorists have on at least one occasion “apologized” to Israel for mistakenly attacking IDF soldiers in the occupied Golan Heights, according to a former Israeli Defense Minister. TrendsIslamic State, Syria unrest (© Dabiq / Global Look Press)Speaking about the wider Israeli policy […]

urkish aid is becoming the lifeline for people in Somalia, with aid organizations like the Turkish Red Crescent, the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation and the Turkey Diyanet Foundation (TDV) reaching out to those suffering from the consequences of civil war and a severe drought. Turkish humanitarian relief organizations have undertaken important steps to counter the […]

Provinces, SANA –Army units restored Monday security and stability to the towns and villages of al-Masaseneh, Zour al-Heiseh, and Zour al-Teibeh in the northern countryside of Hama, killing 300 terrorists and injuring a large number of them , destroying 20 vehicles , two ammunition warehouses and two tanks. Earlier, an army unit thwarted an infiltration […]