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Land ownership is a sensitive subject in South Africa, 24 years after the end of apartheid rule [File:AP] South Africa has criticised an Australian government minister for suggesting that white South African farmers should get special visas so they can flee “horrific circumstances” in the country. Australia‘s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who oversees immigration and […]

© Valeriy Sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Aeroflot will be happy to become the first customer of a new Russian civilian supersonic jet, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian flag carrier Vitaly Savelyev said on the air with Rossiya 24 TV Channel on Thursday. READ ALSO Russia’s first modern supersonic passenger jet can be designed in […]

Frenchman Maxime Hauchard, one of two French nationals identified in a brutal Isis video. Photo: AFP A Frenchman from rural Normandy who was identified as one of the militants involved in the Isis terror group beheadings of a US aid worker and 18 Syrian military captives, has died, according to French media reports. Maxime Hauchard, […]

Damascus Countryside, SANA- Units of the Syrian Arab army on Thursday secured the exit of a new batch of besieged civilians from the eastern Ghouta via Hamouriya. The besieged civilians were used as human shields by terrorist organizations SANA reporter said that since early morning the army units and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent teams […]

© EPA/ANDY RAIN MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Moscow is currently considering retaliatory steps against London and will divulge them in the near future, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. “After the United Kingdom announced unfriendly actions against Russia, retaliatory measures must be taken, as the Russian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday,” she said. “They […]

After saying earlier that it needed proof of Russia’s involvement, President Macron’s office says there is “no other plausible explanation” and stands by its British ally. France said on Thursday it agreed with Britain that Russia was behind a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy in England, President Emmanuel Macron’s office said in a […]

Defense Minister Song Young-moo North Korea’s rare signal for dialogue with the United States is drawing attention away from the upcoming joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington. Before Pyongyang expressed its strong willingness to hold a summit with Seoul, all public and military attention was directed at how and when the allies would hold […]

File photo showing Italian police carrying out raids, in the Roman suburb of Ostia. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Italian police have arrested a 24-year-old man for possession of explosive materials, following a tip-off from the USA’s FBI. Police said on Thursday that the man was arrested “for possession of material which could be used for making […]

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen talks to media, Ankara, Turkey, March 14, 2018. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The United Nations has to act to end an ongoing Turkish invasion of the Afrin region in Syrian Kurdistan before a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds, Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party […]

Hawa Hassan, founder of Photo: Courtesy of Anastasia Mikhanoshina “Even when I was a little girl, I was doing the cooking and the shopping while my mom was selling at the store. As a Somali girl, you grow up in the kitchen,” says Hawa Hassan, founder and CEO of Basbaas, the only line of Somali hot sauces […]