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MChinese President Xi Jinping (2nd L) and his wife Peng Liyuan (1st L), and U.S. President Donald Trump (2nd R) and his wife Melania Trump (3rd R) watch the repair of some historical relics at the conservation workshop of the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 8, 2017. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)   BEIJING, Nov. […]

Syrian refugees in Germany backed by human rights groups said Wednesday they had filed new criminal complaints accusing President Bashar al-Assad’s regime of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Syrian lawyer Anwar Al-Bunni. Photo: DPA The 13 Syrian men and women named 17 suspects they considered “most responsible for Assad’s brutal policies of repression”, said […]

The Syrian Army and its allies have captured the last major stronghold of Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL), according to RT Arabic. Iraqi mobilization units also reportedly took part in the operation, local media reports. Syrian government forces have captured the town of Abu Kamal located in the Euphrates valley on the border with Iraq, […]

Shiite rebels in Yemen threatened on Tuesday to attack ports and airports in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, raising the stakes in a flare-up between Riyadh and Tehran. © Mohammed Huwais, AFP | A Yemeni man gestures at the site of an air strike in the capital Sanaa, on November 5, 2017. The […]

An electronics retailer could be set to lead the way for Chinese shopping bonanza Singles’ Day to take off in Denmark. Singles’ Day could become as popular as Black Friday for Danish consumers, says electronics retailer Elgiganten.Denmark, like other countries, has in recent years seen a shift in peak consuming times from January sales-type discount […]

MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Washington has no intention of unleashing a war against Pyongyang using its regional allies, Georgy Toloraya, Director of the Russian Strategy in Asia Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economics, told TASS on Wednesday © Boris Kavashkin/TASS “The Americans have no such conspiracy plans to unleash a war using […]

Picketers block a road in to Barcelona on November 8th. Photo: Pau Barrena/AFP Roads and railways in Catalonia have been brought to a halt by a general strike protesting for the freedom of politicians and campaigners currently detained over the region’s pro-independence drive. On Wednesday morning the A-2 and AP-7 highways were closed at several […]

President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan accompany US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, to watch a Peking Opera performance at the Palace Museum’s Pavilion of Cheerful Melodies (Changyin ge) on Wednesday. * The Pavilion of Cheerful Melodies (Changyin ge), built in the Qianlong Period (1736-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), is the largest […]

FILE PHOTO: Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand gua “Instead of a genuine fight against terrorist groups we see a simulation of this fight while uncontrolled arms deliveries grow. One day the weapons go to so-called ‘moderate opposition’ in this or that place, and the next day they are […]