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French far-right leader is being welcomed at Kremlin weeks before French election France’s far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen met Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, just one month before the first round of France’s presidential elections. Until Russian state television announced the meeting, it was unclear whether Le Pen would meet the Russian president during […]

Noting that Somalia faces a number of “daunting difficulties” after decades of conflict, a senior United Nations official today highlighted that there is also a new momentum in the country for fresh political engagement amongst its people with the recent electoral process. “The new Government and Parliament now have an opportunity to use the goodwill […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday harshly criticized the president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Bruno Kahl, after reports about him not seeing a direct link between the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) and the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey surfaced in the German media. Speaking at a rally in the western province of […]

Four people are still being questioned The statement from the Metropolitan Police says there are now four people who remain in police custody pending further inquiries. They are:  A 58-year-old man arrested on Thursday morning at an address in Birmingham A 27-year-old man arrested late on Thursday, also in Birmingham A man of 35 arrested […]

A group of eight militants who swore allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist organisation (banned in Russia) attacked a military unit of Russian National Guard (Federal National Guards Troops Service) in the village of Naurskaya in Chechnya. According to law enforcement agencies of the republic, there were eight attackers. Six of them were killed on […]

File Photo: Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak (Photo: Reuters) Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, walked free on Friday for the first time in six years, his lawyer Faree El-Deeb said. He left the Maadi Military Hospital […]

‘Starvation around the corner’ if humanitarian aid is not allowed into besieged areas in the capital, UN officials say. The UN has said 300,000 people in and around Damascus are at risk if they do night receive humanitarian aid in the coming days [Bassam Khabieh/Reuters] The United Nations said fighting around Syria’s capital has cut […]

A Turkish Airlines aircraft leaving from Oslo’s Gardemoen Airport. File photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB scanpix Turkish military personnel have ignored orders to return home following last year’s attempted coup and have now been granted asylum in Norway, saying they fear torture should they return home. Four officers, as well as a military attaché, have […]

MISIS executed a youth in Hawija by firing squad. Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants have burned three women who refused to slaughter fellow residents who had tried to flee areas held by the group in Mosul, eyewitnesses said. Shafaaq news website quoted the witnesses saying that the group had sentenced a group of civilians to […]

VU.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corke  U.S. senators from both major political parties introduced legislation on March 23 to tighten sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile launches and other non-nuclear military activities. Authored by leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-sponsored by seven senators each from the Republican and Democratic […]