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EU President Donald Tusk warned Britain Friday to make “much more progress” on its Brexit bill and the Irish border by the start of next month to unlock the next phase of talks. European Council President Donald Tusk and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT Tusk said he had told British […]

Iraqi troops raise the Iraqi flag on a liberated area in Mosul Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Interior Minister has said that the military presence of Islamic State militants is over after the liberation of Rawa in western Anbar. Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, commander of Jazeera and Upper Euphrates Combing Operations, announced, an hour earlier, […]

The women’s coffins in Salerno’s main cemetery. Photo: Eliano Imperato/AFP Italy’s southern city of Salerno held a mass funeral on Friday for 26 young women from Nigeria who drowned earlier this month trying to cross the Mediterranean. READ MORE: Nigerian girls drowned at sea, Italian autopsies find Twenty-six coffins were laid out in Salerno’s Monumental Cemetery […]

General Chiwenga Herald Reporter— PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday met Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander General Constantino Guveya Chiwenga at State House in Harare. The meeting, that was also attended by South African envoys comprising Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and State Security Minister Bongani Bongo, was also attended by Roman Catholic cleric Father Fidelis Mukonori, Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at the EU summit. Photo: AP Photo/Virginia Mayo/TT Speaking to a Swedish newspaper on Thursday, British Prime Minister Theresa May suggested that she hoped to offer a financial deal to the EU next month – and claimed that all UK ministers were behind her vision for Brexit. The British […]

Russia vetoed a US draft resolution to extend the mandate of United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), current Council president and Italian Ambassador to the United Nations Sebastiano Cardi told the Council on Thursday. UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The JIM’s mandate expires on November 17. “The result of the voting is as follows: […]

Afghan secuirty forces are seen at the site of an explosion near a gathering of supporters of regional leader Atta Mohammad Noor, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 16, 2017. (AP Photo) A suicide attacker blew himself up outside a wedding hall in Kabul killing at least nine people, officials said Thursday, in an apparent attempt to […]

Zimbabweans are waking on Thursday up to uncertainty after hearing that the country was likely to have a transitional government in the wake of a military takeover. South African state media reported that “it has reliably learnt that Zimbabwe is likely to have a transitional government”. This came after soldiers on Wednesday took control of the headquarters of […]

Britain’s four-time Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah has become the first athlete of Somali origin to be knighted. Sir Mo Farah was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on Tuesday morning at Buckingham palace for his services to athletics. Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah knighted by the queen. (Photo: Nairobi News) “Congratulations Sir […]

An Islamic State-linked group has allegedly vowed to launch a Christmas terrorist attack on the Vatican. Apropaganda poster depicted a jihadist driving a car at high speed towards St. Peter’s Basilica.   St Peter’s Square with St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City © Global Look Press The menacing poster was released by the pro-Islamic State (IS, […]