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Egyptian authorities have detained 15 people pending an investigation into an attack on an unlicensed Coptic Christian church in a village south of Cairo, a security source said on Sunday. The Ameer Tadros church in southern Cairo. (Supplied) Dozens of people from the village of Kafr al-Waslin attacked the church after Friday prayers, smashing the […]

BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – The latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against it, North Korea’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, threatening to punish those who supported the measure. The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday for its recent […]

Work on the world’s longest glass-floor bridge proceeds in the Hongyagu Scenic Area in Hebei province earlier this month. The bridge will open to the public on Dec 24. [Photo provided to China Daily] The world’s longest glassfloor bridge will open to the public on Sunday in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. The bridge, which stretches 488 […]

M © John Thys, AFP | Refugees and migrants at a park in Brussels pictured on August 22. The hundreds of migrants, most Sudanese or Eritrean, who sleep in the park hope eventually to get to the UK.  Allegations that Sudanese refugees deported from Belgium were tortured upon their return has shaken Belgium’s governing coalition. […]

First evacuation flight organized by UNHCR and Italian authorities lands at Rome’s Pratica di Mare military airport. Mounira, a 20-year-old Somali with her son Mubarak, shortly after being evacuated with others from Libya to Italy  © UNHCR/Alessandro Penso ROME, Italy – A first group of 162 refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Yemen has arrived safely […]

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Thousands of displaced families have been repatriated to the western side of Mosul city in Nineveh, an official announced. Displaced Iraqis wait to get food supplies as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem “According to the timeline, we receive at the western side […]

The intention by Washington to provide lethal arms to Ukraine ‘crosses a line’ and pushes Kiev towards bloodshed, a senior Russian diplomat said, accusing the US of playing the role of warmonger in the Ukrainian conflict. US Army bazooka Javelin © Wikipedia The move by the US government is an escalation compared to the previous […]

Rescuers reach out to residents who sought shelter on rooftops to escape flooding triggered by Tropical Storm Vinta. Froilan Gallardo, ABS-CBN News The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines climbed swiftly to 133 on Saturday, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river, police said. Tropical Storm Vinta has […]

US soldiers attend welcoming ceremony for US-led NATO troops at polygon near Orzysz, Poland on 13 Apr. 2017. © Kacper Pempel / Reuters NATO significantly bolstered its military presence on Russia’s Western border over the past five years, forcing Moscow to take retaliatory steps, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said.Read more Shoigu’s remarks came […]

The Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 2397 (2017), condemning in the strongest terms the ballistic missile launch conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on 28 November 2017 in violation and flagrant disregard of the Security Council’s resolutions on non-proliferation. UN Photo/Manuel Elias 22 December 2017 – The United Nations Security Council today […]