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President Donald Trump’s choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported. Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson […]

Photo: DPA Despite a death rate higher than its birth rate, Germany managed to grow by two million people in two years due to high levels of immigration, statistics released on Tuesday showed. While no conclusive number have been released for net migration last year, the federal statistics agency destatis estimated on Tuesday that it stood […]

“The border wall is truly our first line of defense,” Trump told reporters. (File photo: Reuters) President Donald Trump on Tuesday examined eight different styles of walls on the US border with Mexico, prototypes for the barrier he promised to build to keep out illegal immigrants and drugs. The Republican president brought a tough message […]

Reuters Photo British police investigated the receipt of a racist letter in a suspicious package to a Muslim lawmaker on Tuesday, one day after two other Muslim lawmakers said they received similar packages. An assistant to opposition Labour lawmaker Rupa Huq told dpa by telephone that her office in the House of Commons, parliament’s elected […]

The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, southern England, on March 13, 2018. © Geoff Caddick / AFP Moscow will not respond to the British request about a clandestine Soviet chemical weapon allegedly used in an ex-double agent’s poisoning until a sample of the agent is provided, the Russian foreign minister said. On Monday, British Prime Minister […]

Migrants sit outside a former reception centre in Rome. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP In a derelict car park a stone’s throw from the centre of Rome live dozens of mostly African migrants, who sleep in tents while dreaming of escaping to northern Europe. The March 4th general election saw parties promising mass expulsions of illegal immigrants make […]

The government plans to explore the possibility of a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as it considers adopting a new way of dealing with Pyongyang, government sources said Tuesday. The decision came after Abe and other officials were briefed by Suh Hoon, one of the South Korean […]

US President Donald Trump has unceremoniously ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from his post, replacing him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. The move was announced on Trump’s Twitter account on Tuesday. Donald J. Trump  ✔@realDonaldTrump  Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! […]

A damaged vehicle of the convoy of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was removed after the explosion [Mohammed Salem/Reuters] Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah unharmed, several others injured, after explosion hits convoy at Beit Hanoun crossing. An explosion has struck the convoy of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah upon his entrance into the Gaza Strip, lightly injuring […]

Austrian police car drives outside of the Iran ambassador’s residence in Vienna, on March 12th 2018. Photo: AFP The Austrian of Egyptian origin who was shot dead over the weekend after attacking a soldier with a knife outside the Iranian ambassador’s residence in Vienna had Islamist sympathies, authorities said Tuesday. Preliminary indications suggest that the […]