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During a daily State Department press briefing on Tuesday, Nauert was asked if there was any news on the monitoring of the Syrian ceasefire, as the previous day Sergey Lavrov had said that Russia, the United States, and Jordan would be conducting this from a center in Amman. “Mr. Lavrov likes to talk a lot […]

Donald Trump’s son says in ‘retrospect he would’ve done things differently’ on a meeting over Clinton information. The son of US President Donald Trump has insisted that his father knew nothing about a meeting with a Russian lawyer who allegedly said she had “compromising” information on Hillary Clinton that could help with Trump’s 2016 election campaign. “There was nothing to tell,” […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi joint force have thwarted an attack by the Islamic state near Mosul, two days after the liberation of the city, Shafaq News reported on Wednesday. The attack is the fourth of its kind by the IS after losing the battle of Mosul. “A force made up of Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization […]

Macron blasted for comments on African women and their ‘seven or eight children’ The French president has come under fire both at home but particularly abroad for suggesting Africa’s challenges were “civilizational” and that providing financial aid would be pointless when “there are countries where women were having seven or eight children”. Macron’s comments were […]

Police killed five Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in a raid on a house in the Central Anatolian province of Konya early on July 12. Four police officers were wounded in clashes that erupted during the raid. Special forces police launched the operation at the house in the Meram district of […]

Police commandos in Saxony-Anhalt shot a man dead on Tuesday after he opened fire on them with “an automatic combat rifle”, police report. Police special forces (SEK) entered a house in the town of Weddersleben in central Germany after a 28-year-old man inside threatened family members with a gun. The man then retreated to his bedroom and […]

Trump’s challenges escalate, with son’s email of ‘love’ for Russia help In a newly released email from June 2016, Donald Trump Jr. voiced eagerness to gain Russian-government dirt on Hillary Clinton. Here’s why the news may mark a turning point in the Trump-Russia saga. Mike Segar/Reuters/File |With those three words, Donald Trump Jr. has brought […]

Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has blamed a culture of silent tolerance of left-wing extremism for riots that blighted Hamburg during the G20 summit over the weekend. “Years of looking the other way and a mistaken liberality towards criminality [from the far left], has come back to strike us in Hamburg,” said Thomas […]

The number of passengers Turkish Airlines carried in the first half of the year has hit 30.3 million people — the highest ever, according to a statement released by the airline on Tuesday. The national flag carrier said this year’s number of customers in June rose by 13.5 percent, reaching 5.7 million, compared with the […]