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FILE PHOTO © Iranian Navy Office / AFP  Iran is prepared to deploy ‘secret weapons’ against American warships, a military official in Tehran said, after the Pentagon sent three destroyers to the Persian Gulf amid a wave of increased tensions between the two states. Without mincing words, General Morteza Qorbani, an adviser to Iran’s military […]

Cyril Ramaphosa has taken the oath and has officially been sworn in as the president of the Republic of South Africa at the inauguration ceremony at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday. (News24) I stand before you having just taken the oath to be President of our beautiful country South Africa. I am humbled […]

Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is sailing the Arabian Sea [Garrett LaBarge/US Navy via AP] A US move to send more troops to the Middle East after accusing Tehran of being behind attacks on tankers in the region is “extremely dangerous … [for] international peace”, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has been quoted as saying. “Increased […]

Lluis Gene, AFP | Frans Timmermans, European Commission vice president and lead candidate of the Party of European Socialists (PES) for commission president, delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Barcelona on May 23, 2019 ahead of EU elections. Dutch pro-EU parties headed for a surprise win Thursday in European Parliament elections, defying a […]

(Yonhap) One Navy officer was killed and four others were injured Friday in an accident involving a destroyer that returned home after a mission in waters off Somalia. The accident occurred at 10:15 a.m. at a naval base in the southern port city of Jinhae when a rope used to connect the 4,400-ton Choi Young […]

In this Dec. 15, 2018, photo, invited guests take photos of the Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane deliver to Air China during a ceremony at Boeing Zhoushan 737 Completion and Delivery Center in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province. (AP Photo) The China Air Transport Association (CATA) on Friday said it estimates losses at Chinese airlines […]

© picture-alliance/AP Photo/J. Raoux Provided by Deutsche Welle Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm on Thursday launched a Falcon 9 rocket containing the first 60 satellites of its multibillion-dollar “Starlink” constellation. The system is intended to provide internet from space and could one day number 12,000 satellites.  The rocket took off without incident from Cape Canaveral in Florida around […]

  The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance will win 345 seats, leads show (File) NEW DELHI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said “India wins yet again” with his party, the BJP, set for a landslide victory in the national elections. Leads show that the BJP will get a clear majority on its own by winning 294 […]

AA Photo Turkey is preparing for potential U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile defense systems as Ankara considers the acquisition a “done deal,” Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, Akar said the U.S. was still trying to dissuade Turkey from purchasing the Russian-made missiles but Ankara was […]

Russian servicemen at the Hmeimim airbase in Syria. © Sputnik / Maksim Blinov Al-Nusra terrorists on Wednesday fired 17 missiles at Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria, all of which were either intercepted or fell short. The attack came as the Syrian Army faced a mass militant offensive in the Idlib province. Nine missiles were intercepted […]