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A judge in the US state of Maryland allowed the filing of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, which claimed that he had violated the constitution emoluments clause, banning US officials from receiving gifts or payments from foreign states. US President Donald Trump has been issued a summons in a lawsuit, filed by the attorneys […]

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed on Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. (Supplied) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed on Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son to create the world’s largest solar power generation company in Saudi Arabia. At a press conference in New […]

© Lior, Ramplifellbg / Instagram Two passenger planes collided on the tarmac of Ben-Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv on Wednesday, leaving both aircraft stuck together by the tail. No passengers were injured, but both planes were badly damaged. The Germania airline and El Al aircrafts smashed into each other before take-off. The German plane, a Boeing […]

  A man casts his ballot in Egypt’s 2018 presidential elections (AFP) Egyptian citizens headed to polling stations across the country on Wednesday for the third and final day of voting in Egypt’s 2018 presidential elections. Voting started from 9am in 13,706 polling stations in all 26 governorates, with the process due to end at […]

Sergey Moskalenko with his father back in 2014 / Moskalenko family archive The most harrowing footage from the Kemerovo mall fire shows a boy leaping from a fourth floor window. He is now in an induced coma, and when he wakes up doctors will tell him that his parents and 4-year old sister are dead. […]

At the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese president, Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), paid an unofficial visit to China from […]

Investigators work in the garden of Sergei Skripal’s house in Salisbury, southern England, on March 22nd 2018. Photo: AFP Austria said on Monday that it would not follow a number of other EU countries in expelling Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, stressing its neutrality. “We stand behind the […]

Photo: DPA A spate of bloody knife attacks in recent weeks has led to concerns about a rise in knife crime. The fact that teenage refugees have often been the culprits has also fired up right-wing critics of the government. On Tuesday morning a 24-year-old woman’s life still hung in the balance after she was […]

Kirill Kukhmar / TASS A massive fire swept through the Winter Cherry shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on Sunday, killing at least 64 people. The victims included children who were allegedly locked inside an upper-floor cinema watching cartoons. Here’s what we know so far. The victims  * At least 64 people died […]

A motorcade believed to be carrying a North Korean delegation makes its way along Beijing’s main east-west thoroughfare, Changan Avenue, in Beijing, China, Tuesday. / Yonhap North Korea’s efforts to improve frayed ties with China bode well for the upcoming inter-Korean summit next month, Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday, following reports that a ranking North […]