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AFP Photo Israel on Friday withdrew from a race against Germany and Belgium for two seats on the United Nations Security Council in 2019/2020 due to its low chances of winning, a U.N. source told Reuters. The 193-member U.N. General Assembly is due to vote next month on five new members for a two-year term […]

Sergei Fadeichev / TASS Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained shortly after making an appearance at an anti-government protest in central Moscow on Saturday. “Navalny appeared on Pushkinskaya (Square) and was quickly detained,” Leonid Volkov, an opposition politician, said in an online broadcast. “It (the detention) was absolutely illegal.” Critics of Vladimir Putin took […]

US President Donald Trump has undercut Rudy Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor who the President recently hired to represent him. Giuliani conducted a series of news media interviews this week that only intensified the controversy involving Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and other matters. “Rudy is a great guy, but he just […]

United Arab Emirates (UAE) forces have occupied sea and airports on Yemen‘s remote island of Socotra, a day after deploying four military craft and more than 100 troops there, according to a Yemeni government official. Condemning the move as an “act of aggression”, the official said UAE soldiers also blocked Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr, Yemen’s prime minister, and 10 […]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump will hold talks in Washington later this month ahead of Trump’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the White House said Friday. The summit will take place at the White House on May 22. “President Trump and President Moon will continue their close coordination […]

Reuters Photo California’s economy has surpassed that of the United Kingdom to become the world’s fifth largest, according to new federal data made public Friday. California’s gross domestic product rose by $127 billion from 2016 to 2017, surpassing $2.7 trillion, the data said. Meanwhile, the UK’s economic output slightly shrunk over that time when measured […]

President Trump said on Friday that the date and location were set for a meeting with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. (File photo: Reuters) President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters that the date and location were set for a meeting with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, and that the details would be […]

Hercules C-130 © Radu Sigheti / Reuters The US has filed a complaint against Beijing over an alleged military laser incident in Djibouti, which hosts both US and Chinese military bases. Beijing slammed the “untrue criticisms,” saying it abides by international law. On Thursday, the Pentagon accused China of pointing military-grade lasers at a US C-130 Hercules […]

The president of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmajo” Mohamed, the 9th elected president of this fragmented country, now has to navigate a complicated diplomatic dispute with UAE, a previously allied country. (Ilyas Ahmed/Wikimedia Commons /TRTWorld) The Gulf impasse caused political turmoil in the African country, with its central government aligning with Qatar and the federal states […]

US president Donald Trump during a joint press conference with Norwegian PM Erna Solberg at the White House in October 2017. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB scanpix Eighteen Republican lawmakers from the United States have sent a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in which they recommend President Donald Trump for the 2019 Nobel Peace […]