Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrives in Canada for the G7. Photo: Geoff Robins/AFP In one of his first foreign policy statements, Italy’s new Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that Russia should return to the G8. Conte was commenting from the G7 summit in Canada, where the leaders of Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Japan, Canada […]
Continue reading …A Chinese Boeing 747-4J6 private jet is flying to Singapore after taking off from an airport in Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday, citing a flight route-tracking website (https://www.flightradar24.com/CCA061/11ac2ef5). The takeoff of an Air China plane was detected at 8:30 a.m., according to Flightradar24. One hour later, Kim’s private […]
Continue reading …In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. A U.S. special operations soldier was killed and four injured in an attack by al-Shabab extremists in Somalia’s Jubaland on June 8,2018. A U.S. operations soldier was killed and four wounded in an […]
Continue reading …US Secretary of Defence James Mattis (L) shakes hands with Turkish Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli prior to a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the NATO headquarters in Brussels. (AFP Photo) Turkey’s Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said Saturday his meeting with the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis in Brussels on the sidelines of NAC […]
Continue reading …Warships and fighter jets of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy take part in a military display in the South China Sea April 12, 2018. © Stringer / Reuters Some 614 gigabytes on a secretive US Navy project was reportedly stolen from a contractor, who kept the data unclassified despite the sensitivity of the information, […]
Continue reading …European members of the G7 unanimously oppose US President Donald Trump’s call for Russia to be readmitted into the club, French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said Friday. © Saul Loeb, AFP | British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a family photo during the G7 Summit […]
Continue reading …US President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One prior to departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, June 8, 2018. (AFP Photo) President Donald Trump injected fresh drama into an already tense meeting of the Group of Seven major industrialized nations Friday, calling for Russia, ousted for the annexation of Crimea, to be reinstated. […]
Continue reading …AT-KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomed the announcement made by the Government of Afghanistan for a temporary ceasefire with the Taliban, the agency said in a statement. Citing calls by more than 2,000 religious scholars gathered this week in Kabul to denounce the ongoing war and urge all parties to the […]
Continue reading …SINGAPORE ― U.S. President Donald Trump will fly into Singapore and check in at The Shangri-La Hotel on Sunday, two days ahead of his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to hotel officials, Friday. They said Trump plans to spend four days from June 10 to 13 and leave a day after […]
Continue reading …Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache attend a news conference in Vienna [Leonhard Foeger/Reuters] Austria is closing seven mosques and could expel dozens of imams from the country, the government has announced. At a press conference on Friday, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the government is shutting down a Turkish mosque and dissolving a […]
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