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The smoke of a rocket fired by Palestinian Hamas militants is seen over Gaza City on March 25, 2018 as they take part in a military drill. (AFP/MAHMUD HAMS) Incoming alarms sound throughout area surrounding Gaza Strip as system triggered by live-fire exercise within Strip; IDF retaliates with tank fire The Iron Dome missile defense […]

Security forces at the scene of a car bomb explosion near parliament in Mogadishu on Sunday [Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP] A car bomb detonated near Somalia‘s parliament in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least two people and wounding several others, a senior police officer said. The bomb exploded on Sunday at a security checkpoint after soldiers intercepted […]

© Maxym Kyselev / Sputnik At least five people have died in a shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, where a huge fire broke out Sunday. Emergency services are still working to rescue others trapped inside the building. The fire broke out on Sunday afternoon local time. Rescuers have managed to get some […]

Carles Puigdemont pictured in Switzerland on March 18th. Photo: AFP German police on Sunday arrested Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont as he crossed over by car from Denmark. Puigdemont “was arrested today at 11:19 am by Schleswig-Holstein’s highway patrol force,” a German police spokesman told AFP, adding that the detention was based on a European […]

In Boston, Prince Mohammed met with the heads of universities and Saudi researchers. (Supplied) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman paid a visit to Boston that lasted several hours on Saturday before heading to New York, as part of his tour of the United States. In Boston, Prince Mohammed met with the heads of universities […]

People stand next to flowers laid in front of the Gendarmerie Nationale in Carcassonne on March 24th. Photo: AFP Along with a heroic police officer who offered himself as a hostage, the victims of the jihadist shooting attack in France were a butcher and two pensioners. The first victim of gunman Radouane Lakdim was the […]

MHe also stressed that the kingdom will announce to the world what it is doing to combat extremism. (AP) He also stressed that the kingdom will announce to the world what it is doing to combat extremism. (AP) In an interview with the Washington Post, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said this week that Islam was […]

Photo: AFP Thousands of protesters descended on the streets of Catalonia late Friday after Spain’s supreme court detained five separatist leaders for their role in last year’s independence bid. The court also issued international arrest warrants for six other Catalan figures who have fled abroad, including former regional president Carles Puigdemont.     Twenty-four protesters […]

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Fourteen people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a car suicide bombing in Lashkargah city of southern Helmand province on Friday, officials said. The blast took place at the entrance to the Ghazi Ayub Khan stadium in the limits ​​of the first security zone in Lashkargah city, killing 14 people and […]

The French policeman who swapped himself for a hostage held by a jihadist gunmen has died of his wounds, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Saturday. “Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame has passed away. He died for his country. France will never forget his heroism, his bravery, his sacrifice,” the minister wrote on his Twitter account. Beltrame was shot and stabbed after […]