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Crowds gather in Barcelona to celebrate the proclamation of a Catalan republic. Photo: AFP Catalan lawmakers voted on Friday to declare independence from Spain but Madrid moved swiftly to quash the breakaway bid in a sharp escalation of a crisis causing jitters in secession-wary Europe. As thousands of pro-independence activists cheered outside, the regional parliament in […]

An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter. © Safin Hamed / AFP The US-led coalition has retracted its previous statement on a ceasefire agreement between Baghdad and the Kurds, clarifying that there was no “official ceasefire” yet and that the two parties are only “talking with each other.” News of the ceasefire came on Friday from coalition spokesman […]

The Madrid Senate passed the measures less than an hour after Catalonia declared independence. Photo: Oscar del Pozo/AFP Spain’s Senate has voted to approve measures that will allow the government to intervene in Catalan autonomy and remove its devolved executive after the region made a unilateral declaration of independence. Spanish MPs passed the measures with […]

Deir Ezzor, SANA- Army units, in cooperation with the allied forces, re-established control over Huweijit Saqar in Deir Ezzor after eliminating ISIS last groups in it. Speaking to SANA, a military source said that army units, backed by allied forces, carried out intensive operations against ISIS fortifications on the southeastern outskirts of Deir Ezzor city, establishing […]

Photo: AFP Austria’s far-right FPÖ party on Tuesday agreed to enter talks on forming a coalition government with incoming chancellor Sebastian Kurz, offering a fresh boost to populist parties in Europe. The conservative chancellor, 31, invited the FPÖ (Freedom Party) for talks, paving the way for the party to return to power nearly two decades after it […]

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy appealed to Spain’s Senate for the approval of article 155 measures to intervene in Catalonia’s autonomy and remove its regional government. File photo of Mariano Rajoy. Photo: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP “I ask your support for the agreement reached by the cabinet last Saturday. The situation is exceptional and the consequences very […]

U.S. President Donald Trump displays a presidential public health emergency declaration on the nation’s opioid crisis in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 26, 2017. © Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Calling the opioid epidemic “the worst drug crisis in America,” President Donald Trump declared it a nationwide public health emergency […]

Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre (3rd from the right) visits Somali man injured in the deadly terror attack in Mogadishu, Oct. 26, 2017 (AA Photo) Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre on Thursday met the injured victims of of the recent Mogadishu blast who have been receiving treatment in a hospital in Ankara. Thirty-five […]

A man holds the Kurdish flag on September 4, 2011 during a demonstration in Stockholm against operations by Iran and Turkey against Kurdish separatist rebels in Iraq. AFP PHOTO /JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images) Erbil (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have launched an attack against the Kurdish Peshmerga troops deployed in northwestern Nineveh, […]

Anti-riot officers watched from strategic locations and patrolled around polling stations during the exercise that Opposition supporters have largely ignored. In Kibera, they chased after residents who burned tyres and blocked roads in a show of support for NASA leader Raila Odinga who was President Uhuru Kenyatta’s main rival. Raila and his running mate Kalonzo […]