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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters as results in the Israeli general elections are announced at a Likud event in Tel Aviv, early on April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinched a clear electoral victory Wednesday morning, with some 97 percent of votes showing his Likud party tied with Blue and White, […]

Esam Omran Al-Fetori, Reuters | Khalifa Haftar’s forces pose for a picture as they head out of Benghazi to reinforce the troops advancing to Tripoli, in Benghazi, Libya, April 7, 2019. Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar’s forces said Sunday they had carried out their first air strike on a suburb of Tripoli, where fighters loyal to […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) ahead of a meeting at The Kremlin in Moscow on April 8, 2019. (AFP Photo) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Moscow on Monday for his third meeting this year with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the opening ceremony of the Turkey-Russia […]

Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt exited the Trump administration in July 2018. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo   Here is a list of departures from top positions in the Trump administration during President Donald Trump’s two-plus years in the White House. This list doesn’t include people who were nominated but never actually served, or […]

People in Sudan have been protesting since December demanding the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir [File: Anadolu] Security forces in Sudan fired tear gas at protesters in an attempt to break up a demonstration in front of the defence ministry in central Khartoum, witnesses said on Monday. A witness told Al Jazeera that security forces on pickup […]

Haftar’s forces announced they were gearing up for an offensive in the west of the country [File: Abdullah Doma/AFP] Forces loyal to Libya‘s renegade General Khalifa Haftar are marching in the capital, Tripoli, igniting fears of renewed war in the chaos-wracked country. The assault by Haftar’s self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) raised fears of a full-blown battle in Tripoli, the […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un North Korea is possibly building a new submarine that can fire ballistic missiles, according to South Korean and U.S. defense officials, Friday. This could be a serious security threat to the United States as the submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) may reach as far as the U.S. mainland. “[SLBM technology] changes […]

The long court backlog — which has grown by 66 percent since fiscal year 2016 — means even migrants with unsuccessful asylum claims can spend years in the U.S. | AP Photo/Charlie Riedel President Donald Trump has been talking about a border crisis for three years. Now he has the numbers to prove it, with […]

File photo: A Boeing 737 MAX takes off during a flight test in Renton, Washington January 29, 2016 Reuters Boeing’s CEO Dennis Muilenburg apologized on Thursday for lives lost in deadly crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia, but said the plane manufacturer remains confident in the “fundamental safety” of the 737 MAX aircraft. Upcoming software updates […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (L) and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (File Photo) A panel organized in Moscow by the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey’s Directorate of Communications has discussed the relationship between Turkey and Russia and regional developments, the Directorate said Thursday. In a statement, the Directorate said that officials from the Kremlin’s Directorate […]