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In this Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 file photo, police forensic officers walk within a cordon near where an incident happened, that police say they are investigating as a terrorist attack, at Parsons Green subway station in London. (AP Photo) An Iraqi teenager, who had come to Britain as an asylum seeker, was found guilty on […]

Germany’s newly inaugurated Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told Bild newspaper on Friday that he doesn’t believe the Islamic faith is part of German culture. “Islam does not belong to Germany. Germany is characterized by Christianity. These aspects include shops being closed on Sundays, church holidays and rituals such as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas,” said the […]

Government air strikes kill at least 46 people on Friday, as thousands of residents flee besieged area near Damascus. Thousands of civilians have fled the besieged Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, in what is believed to be the largest exodus in one day in the country’s seven-year war, as deadly air strikes continue. Faced with the […]

North Korean ‎Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho is making a rare and surprise visit to Sweden amid speculation that Stockholm might be the location of the planned summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sweden is the diplomatic liaison between the U.S. and North Korea. Swedish officials have offered their country […]

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un / Yonhap If there could be lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula after two summits by the end of May, all three protagonists ― President Moon Jae-in, U.S. President Donald Trump and, yes, North Korea’s young dictator Kim Jong-un ― would deserve a piece of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. […]

A file picture taken in Brest harbor, western France, on September 21, 2004, shows the Russian nuclear submarine of Shchuka-B type / FRED TANNEAU / AFP Russian nuclear-powered submarines have reportedly pulled off an exercise near American military bases. They avoided detection as they approached the US coast, Russian military TV said, citing an officer […]

Lavapiés is home to a large part of the city’s migrant population. Photo: Olmo Calvo/AFP Security forces in the multicultural Madrid neighbourhood of Lavapiés on Thursday following the death of a Senegalese man whom they said was chased through the streets by police. Riot police and firefighters were deployed to Lavapiés, a district in the […]

The bridge connects the university with the city of Sweetwater and was only opened days ago, CBS Miami reported. The channel showed footage of firefighters climbing on the wreckage of the bridge while paramedics treated several people on the road. pedestrian bridge spanning several lanes of traffic collapsed on Thursday at Florida International University in […]

U.S. forces take up positions on the outskirts of the Syrian town, Manbij, a flashpoint between Turkish troops and YPG terrorists in al-Asaliyah village, Aleppo province, Syria. (Arab 24 network, via AP) No agreement has been reached yet between the U.S. and Turkey on Manbij, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said Thursday. Spokeswoman […]

© Aleksey Nikolskyi / Sputnik  In his first public reaction to the UK measures against Russia in ex-spy Sergei Skripal’s poisoning, President Vladimir Putin said he was “extremely concerned” by the “destructive and provocative” stance of the UK. A “detailed discussion” of the current crisis in Russian-UK relations was held when Putin met with top officials from the […]