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North Korean-manufactured machines guns were seized by a French frigate in an inspection of small Iranian ships on their way to Somalia in the Arabian Sea in March, a US broadcaster reported Tuesday, citing a UN report. According to the report recently released by the Monitoring Group of the UN Security Council’s Somalia sanctions committee, six […]

Spain told a meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers on Monday it suspected “disinformation and manipulation” was emanating from Russia during the Catalan independence crisis. Spain’s Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Madrid had said on Friday it was concerned by Russian social media activity on Catalonia, after misleading reports and images shared widely online […]

MEHR NEWS AGENCY Iranian rescuers searched for survivors trapped under rubble after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake jolted the Iran-Iraq border, killing more than 450 people and injuring over 7,100. Local officials said the death toll would rise as search and rescue teams reached remote areas of Iran. The powerful quake hit at around 9:20 p.m. (1820 […]

Dosari uses this initiative in urging women to adhere to traffic appropriate behavior, accurately and carefully (Al Arabiya) Behind the steering wheel of her own car, the Saudi young woman, Noura al-Dosari, is driving around in the residential compound she lives in in the eastern city of Dhahran, as her daily routin Dosari learned how […]

A sentry robot freezes a hypothetical intruder by pointing its machine gun during its test in Cheonan, 92 kms south of Seoul, 28 September, 2006. ©Kim Dong-Joo / AFP As a United Nations weapons control group meets to discuss the prospect of killer robots, RT.com looks at how new technology is bringing autonomous weaponry out […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan © Presidential Press Service, pool photo via AP ANKARA, November 13. /TASS/. Russia and the US should pull their troops out of Syria following the joint statement adopted by the two countries’ presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which says that there is no military solution to the Syrian conflict, Turkish President Recep […]

Two years to the day since the devastating terror attacks in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron led a series of sober ceremonies around the French capital on Monday to commemorate the 130 victims. Photo: AFP Macron was joined by his predecessor François Hollande and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo at the site of each attack on […]

A Saudi border guard watches as he stands in a boat off the coast of the Red Sea on Saudi Arabia’s maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan April 8, 2015. (Reuters)  Saudi Arabia said Monday that the Arab coalition fighting the Houthi militia will begin reopening airports and seaports in Yemen, days after temporarily closing them after […]

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Seven persons were killed, while 321 others were wounded as result of the earthquake that hit large parts of Iraq on Sunday evening, Kurdistan’s Health Ministry has announced. In press remarks on Monday, Health Minister Rekawt Hama Rasheed said four persons were killed in Darbandikhan, two in Garmian and one in Sulaimaniya. In […]