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F-35 Lightning II at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, France. June 18, 2017. © Pascal Rossignol / Reuters US Senators have voted to block the sale of F-35s to Turkey, slamming their NATO ally for plans to buy Russian S-400 missile batteries. Ankara warned of “an alternative” should the deal be called off. […]

Videgaray: objections expressed through diplomatic note. Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs today condemned the United States’ policy of separating migrant children from their parents at its southern border, describing the practice as “cruel and inhumane.” Luis Videgaray told a press conference this morning that “on behalf of the government and the people of Mexico, I […]

Arthur Max/FM. Ministério das Relações Exteriores UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi addressing representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean at a regional meeting on migration in Brasilia, Brazil, on 19 February 2018. The number of people forced to flee their homes last year rose by nearly three million to 68.5 million, the head of the […]

A Muslim woman walks by a mosque at the Vienna Islamic Centre on April 14th 2017. Photo: AFP Austria’s main federation of Muslim residents (IGGiOe) on Sunday voiced its “indignation” after Vienna announced the closure of seven mosques and said it would expel Turkish-funded imams. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had on Saturday strongly criticised the move […]

XXXTentacion, the rapper born Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy.  (SUPPLIED PHOTO) DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.—Troubled rapper-singer XXXTentacion was shot and killed Monday in Florida in what police called an apparent robbery attempt, authorities said. The 20-year-old rising star, whose real name is Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was pronounced dead Monday evening at a Fort Lauderdale-area hospital, the Broward Sheriff’s Office […]

A file photo from a meeting between King Abdullah and Netanyahu (Reuters Photo) Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday after months of strained relations. They held talks in Jordan, with a focus on contested Jerusalem. The meeting came ahead of a visit to the region this week by […]

Karpov / SOS MEDITERRANEE / AFP Almost half of the 630 migrants that were rescued from the Mediterranean and arrived in Spain’s port of Valencia at the weekend want to seek asylum in France, the Spanish government said Monday. The migrants arrived in Spain on Sunday in three vessels, including the rescue ship Aquarius, after being turned away […]

President Donald Trump has promised to keep upping the ante if China retaliates to his latest action by pursuing additional tariffs Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday raised the stakes in a growing trade dispute with China, ordering trade officials to draw up a list of $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that […]

‘ The Yomiuri Shimbun :Damaged digital displays are seen on a platform at Hankyu Ibarakishi Station in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, following a strong quake on Monday morning. OSAKA (Jiji Press) — A strong earthquake measuring up to lower 6, the third-highest level on Japan’s seismic intensity scale of 7, rocked western areas of the country […]

The US president has waded into the ongoing standoff between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her interior minister over migration. But his claim that crime in Germany “is way up” doesn’t tally with official statistics. US President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that Germany’s leaders were losing the support of the public over the migration issue. […]