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Turkey will receive its first two F-35 fighter jets from the U.S. on Thursday during a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas despite facing opposition from the U.S. Congress, the Pentagon said Wednesday. According to Pentagon spokesman Mike Andrews, Lockheed Martin will conduct a rollout ceremony on Thursday in Fort Worth and the jets will move […]

FILE PHOTO: Pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in © Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters The young leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, has made a good impression on southern president Moon Jae-in and treated his counterpart with respect, Moon has revealed to Russian media. “Despite his [Kim’s] youth, […]

Speaking to the National Federation of Independent Businesses in Washington on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Americans are “treated horribly” by Canadians who return home with U.S.-purchased shoes they have smuggled across the border.  (CHRIS KLEPONIS – POOL / GETTY IMAGES) WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has called Canada “brutal,” accused Canada’s prime minister […]

Haley called the global body a ‘cesspool of political bias’ [Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters] The United States has withdrawn from the United Nations’ top human rights body accusing it of “chronic bias” against Israel, in a move that was criticised by human rights groups and described as regrettable by foreign leaders. The decision to pull out of the UN […]

President Donald Trump and his allies frequently seek to conflate all undocumented immigrants with gang members, particularly those affiliated with MS-13, a gang with Salvadoran origins. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Trump on Tuesday tweeted that immigrants would “pour into and infest” the United States and questioned parents’ decision to send children unaccompanied to the border. […]

F-35 Lightning II at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, France. June 18, 2017. © Pascal Rossignol / Reuters US Senators have voted to block the sale of F-35s to Turkey, slamming their NATO ally for plans to buy Russian S-400 missile batteries. Ankara warned of “an alternative” should the deal be called off. […]

Videgaray: objections expressed through diplomatic note. Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs today condemned the United States’ policy of separating migrant children from their parents at its southern border, describing the practice as “cruel and inhumane.” Luis Videgaray told a press conference this morning that “on behalf of the government and the people of Mexico, I […]

Arthur Max/FM. Ministério das Relações Exteriores UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi addressing representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean at a regional meeting on migration in Brasilia, Brazil, on 19 February 2018. The number of people forced to flee their homes last year rose by nearly three million to 68.5 million, the head of the […]

A Muslim woman walks by a mosque at the Vienna Islamic Centre on April 14th 2017. Photo: AFP Austria’s main federation of Muslim residents (IGGiOe) on Sunday voiced its “indignation” after Vienna announced the closure of seven mosques and said it would expel Turkish-funded imams. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had on Saturday strongly criticised the move […]

XXXTentacion, the rapper born Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy.  (SUPPLIED PHOTO) DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.—Troubled rapper-singer XXXTentacion was shot and killed Monday in Florida in what police called an apparent robbery attempt, authorities said. The 20-year-old rising star, whose real name is Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was pronounced dead Monday evening at a Fort Lauderdale-area hospital, the Broward Sheriff’s Office […]