© Peruvian Ministry of Defense | President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski during the Flag Parade in Tacna, Peru on August 28, 2017. Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kucyznski scrambled for his political survival Thursday as opponents demanded he resign over revelations of decade-old payments from a Brazilian construction company at the center of Latin America’s biggest graft […]
Continue reading …Weapons supplied by the United States and Saudi Arabia to opposition fighters often fell into the hands of ISIL, significantly enhancing the “quantity and quality” of the group’s armaments, a new report alleges. Iraqi security forces display weapons confiscated from ISIL fighters [Wissm Al-Okili/Reuters] The number of weapons goes “far beyond those that would have been […]
Continue reading …Salahuddin (Iraqinews.com) The Iraqi Ministry of Oil started on Thursday reconstructing the country’s biggest oil refinery Baiji, which was completely destroyed in intense fighting between government forces and Islamic State group. The aim is to complete reconstruction work early next year on one of the units that will produce 70,000 barrels per day at the […]
Continue reading …US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday at a press conference befor the Security Council in New York that Iran’s behavior in the Middle East is getting worse, fanning flames of conflict. US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley. (Screengrab) Haley confirmed that the US has evidence that the missile fired […]
Continue reading …Three Iraqi Yazidi children, kidnapped by Daesh terrorists in 2014, were brought to Turkey’s southeastern province Gaziantep on Thursday to be reunited with their families. İHA Photo The children aged 5, 6 and 7 were kidnapped by Daesh in Iraq’s Sinjar region and were recovered in Syria. They were brought to the Consulate General of […]
Continue reading …US President Donald Trump is taking an “extremely dangerous” and “big step” towards nuclear war by seeking a naval blockade, North Korea has stated, according to the official KCNA news agency. The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Stethem are underway alongside ships from the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy […]
Continue reading …Vladimir Putin believes that Russia must be a 21st century country with a hi-tech powered economy. “Our GDP grew by 75% since 2000, while industrial production surged 70%, the processing industry grew at an accelerated pace,” the president pointed out. Putin added that taxes have tripled since 2000, and the country’s reserves have increased 30-fold. […]
Continue reading …NAGOYA:Japan’s first test of a remote-controlled driverless vehicle on a public road was held Thursday in Aichi Prefecture, home to Toyota Motor Corp. and other auto companies. A self-driving vehicle goes on a test run in Kota, Aichi Prefecture on Thursday. Photo: KYODO In the test conducted by the central Japan prefectural government from around 10 a.m., the […]
Continue reading …At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed by Myanmarsecurity forces in one month following a government-led crackdown in the country’s Rakhine state in late August, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). At least 9,000 Rohingya died in Myanmar’s Rakhine state between August 25 and September 24, according to MSF [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters] The figure, published on Thursday in an MSF report, is […]
Continue reading …All children under the age of 16 will need to seek parental approval to open an account on Facebook or other social network sites, if a new bill put forward by the French government gets the green light. New legislation has been put forward as a part of a bill that seeks to adapt dated […]
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