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There have been many stories in US news media lately about how China’s ban on foreign waste has caused recycling chaos in their country. A National Public Radio story last week described the impact on Portland, Oregon, quoting a spokesman for local Rogue Waste as saying that the company had no choice but to take […]

Here’s what we know about the fatal collision between a train and school bus that has so far killed four in France. Photo: AFP What happened?  A school bus, which was carrying around 20 pupils from a local secondary school, was struck by the train in Millas about 18 kilometres west (11 miles) of the […]

The mounting pressure on North Korea over its rocket and nuclear programs is reaching a point at which there is a risk of strangling the country, Russia’s deputy Foreign Minister has said, warning that Russia does not support such a tactic. FILE PHOTO: People look from inside a bus in central Pyongyang © Damir Sagolj […]

© 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]