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Displaced families. File photo. Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The number of Christian families repatriated since the recapture of Nineveh province from Islamic State militants has reached nearly 3000, a local official was quoted saying Sunday. The regions of Hamadaniyah and Tel Saqf have seen the highest number of returnees since the Iraqi government declared late August the […]

The Israeli fertilizer giant, Israel Chemicals (ICL), which was involved in potash mine development project in Ethiopia, filed a law suit against the Ethiopian government at The Hague International Arbitration Court, The Reporter has learnt. The giant fertilizer producer, ICL, abandoned the potash mine development project in the Afar Regional State in the Dallol Depression and pulled […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivering a speech in Ankara on Wednesday. PHOTO: ADEM ALTAN / AFP Turkey on Saturday asked citizens to be “cautious” in Germany and stay away from political gatherings ahead of this month’s election, as tensions ratcheted between the Nato allies. Ties have plummeted since last year’s attempted overthrow of President […]

Two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers fly alongside two Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jets over the East China Sea on Saturday. Following the the operation, one B-1B flew to Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture for the Misawa Air Festival, while the other B-1B returned to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. | JAPAN […]

North Korea warned Saturday that it will watch every move of the United States as Washington pushes to impose new U.N. sanctions on the regime for its latest nuclear test. Choe Hui-chol, a vice minister of foreign affairs, met with foreign ambassadors in the country on Friday to brief them on Pyongyang’s sixth and most […]

Thousands attend first Mogadishu night football match in decadesMohamed_Abdiwahab/ AFP Several thousand fans on Friday watched the first night-time football match to be played in Mogadishu since chaos descended on the Somali capital nearly three decades ago, raucously backing their respective teams in what the mayor called a “historic” event. The match was the final […]

Residents walk past a building destroyed in an earthquake that struck off the southern coast of Mexico, in Juchitan, Mexico September 8, 2017. © Jorge Luis Plata / Reuters The number of people killed by the 8.2-magnitude quake that hit the southern coast of Mexico late Thursday has risen to at least 61, with witnesses […]

German soldiers in Warsaw in 1945. Photo: Wikipedia Commons/ Germany on Friday dismissed Poland’s threat to demand new talks for World War II reparations from Berlin, saying the issue was already settled in 1953. “Poland made a binding decision in August 1953… to relinquish demands for further war reparations,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert said, adding […]

Japanese wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki (R) and Ri Su Yong, a vice chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea who formerly served as foreign minister, shake hands in Pyongyang on PYONGYANG – Japanese wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki on Friday held talks with North Korea’s top official in charge of foreign affairs, amid soaring tensions between the country […]