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A file photo from a meeting between King Abdullah and Netanyahu (Reuters Photo) Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday after months of strained relations. They held talks in Jordan, with a focus on contested Jerusalem. The meeting came ahead of a visit to the region this week by […]

Karpov / SOS MEDITERRANEE / AFP Almost half of the 630 migrants that were rescued from the Mediterranean and arrived in Spain’s port of Valencia at the weekend want to seek asylum in France, the Spanish government said Monday. The migrants arrived in Spain on Sunday in three vessels, including the rescue ship Aquarius, after being turned away […]

President Donald Trump has promised to keep upping the ante if China retaliates to his latest action by pursuing additional tariffs Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday raised the stakes in a growing trade dispute with China, ordering trade officials to draw up a list of $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that […]

‘ The Yomiuri Shimbun :Damaged digital displays are seen on a platform at Hankyu Ibarakishi Station in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, following a strong quake on Monday morning. OSAKA (Jiji Press) — A strong earthquake measuring up to lower 6, the third-highest level on Japan’s seismic intensity scale of 7, rocked western areas of the country […]

The US president has waded into the ongoing standoff between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her interior minister over migration. But his claim that crime in Germany “is way up” doesn’t tally with official statistics. US President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that Germany’s leaders were losing the support of the public over the migration issue. […]

A column of Yemeni pro-government forces and armoured vehicles arrives in al-Durayhimi district, about nine kilometres south of Hodeidah international airport on June 13, 2018. (AFP) The Yemeni army said on Sunday evening that its forces stormed the barrier of the Hodeidah Airport and began purging it amid fierce battles against the Houthis in the […]

At least 125 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops during mass demonstrations along the Gaza border since March 30 [Anadolu] Palestinians have been protesting Israeli occupation along the border by sending burning kites to the Israeli side. an hour Israeli jets have struck nine targets belonging to Hamas, the group that controls the Gaza Strip, […]

Song Young-gil, chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northern Economic Cooperation, speaks during a meeting to announce a roadmap for joint economic projects with North Korea, Russia and China, at the Korea Press Center in Seoul, Monday. / Yonhap Moon to meet Putin at critical time The government will seek joint economic projects with Pyongyang, […]

In a stunning victory, right-wing candidate Iván Duque of Centro Democrático party has clinched Colombia’s runoff presidential election. In the first post-conflict elections for 36 million eligible Colombians, the 41-year old lawyer and economist Iván Duque has won the runoff election against rival, the leftist 58-year old former mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro. Some 890,000 […]

Migrants on board the Aquarius rescue vessel survey the coast. Photo: AFP/ Medecins Sans Frontières Spain will treat the hundreds of migrants who are to arrive Sunday on board the Aquarius rescue vessel “totally normally”, the government said Friday, meaning some could be expelled. The ship’s plight has caused a rift across Europe this week, […]