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Roughly 50 teenage Somali and Ethiopian migrants were “deliberately drowned’’ on Wednesday by a smuggler, who forced 120 passengers into the sea off Yemen’s coast, the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, said. “The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them to the sea, when he saw some ‘authority types’ near […]

South Korea’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae called for an emergency meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday, the office said, apparently to discuss North Korea’s fresh threat to stage a missile provocation against the United States. The NSC meeting will be held at 3 p.m., chaired by President Moon Jae-in’s top security adviser […]

Exclusive photos obtained by Al Arabiya from inside Al Masawara district reveal the extent of damages inflicted by terrorists to the infrastructure of the city. Security forces cleared out more than 90 percent of the terrorists in Awamya city in a sustained operation in the area where terrorists and wanted persons were holed up. A […]

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi authorities are holding more than 12 Islamic State-affiliated children arrested in Mosul, a government minister has said, stressing on the issue’s sensitivity. “Daesh (IS) children is a reality that we avoid discussing because it is highly sensitive, and some take it for an act of defamation,” Mohamed Shayya al-Sudani, Iraq’s Minister of […]

North Korean state media has outlined details of the country’s Guam strike plan expected to be ready by mid-August. The attack will reportedly include four missiles fired over Japan and landing within a few dozen kilometers of US territory. Continuing the heated exchange with US President Donald Trump, Pyongyang’s state media outlet KCNA said that […]

Donald Trump tweeted that his first order as president was to renovate and modernize the American nuclear arsenal, which is now stronger “than ever before,” adding that Washington will never allow any nation to surpass US power. Trump also said that he hopes the US will never have to use its nuclear weapons.The remarks follow […]

Iran President Hassan Rouhani appointed two women as vice presidents and one as a civil rights assistant in his new cabinet. In separate decrees on Wednesday, the Iranian president appointed Masoumeh Ebtekar as vice president for women and family affairs and La’aya Joneidi as vice president for legal affairs. Ebtekar was a vice president and […]

Hackers broke into the database of Kenya’s electoral commission and manipulated the results of the election, Nasa Presidential Candidate Raila Odinga has alleged. Vote counting is ongoing after Tuesday’s election where voters were asked to either re-elect President Uhuru Kenyatta or replace him with longtime opposition leader Mr Odinga. With ballots from 92 per cent […]

A man has been shot and arrested in relation to Wednesday morning’s assault when anti-terror soldiers in the northwestern suburbs of Paris were rammed into by a car, leaving six injured. French security forces have shot and arrested a man suspected of being behind an attack on a group of soldiers on Wednesday morning in […]

Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army’s ninth armored division arrived to boundaries of Tal Afar town, west of Nineveh province, Waradana news website reported on Tuesday. “Army troops arrived to the boundaries of the town, expected to be freed from the Islamic State group later,” a army source said. An Iraqi Army helicopter hovers over an […]