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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova © Kirill Kalinnikov / Sputnik The statements made by the UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over what happened to the former Russian double agent are baseless and “absurd,” the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. “This is just some sort of insufferable absurdity,” Zakharova told the Russia’s Govorit Moskva radio […]

Image captionGary Cohn was director of the National Economic Council under President Trump-AFP US President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser Gary Cohn is resigning, the White House has said. It is the latest in a series of high-profile departures from President Trump’s team. There has been speculation that Mr Cohn, a supporter of free trade, […]

The IT professional runs a reasonably successful business in Kerala. An Indian who has never left his country has struck a million dollars in Dubai. The 40-year-old from the south Indian state of Kerala decided to try his luck and bought a Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire promotion online. Prabin Thomas struck the million dollars […]

One of Toni Iwobi’s campaign protraits. Photo: Tony Iwobi/Facebook Italy has elected the first black senator in its history, it was announced on Tuesday, and he belongs to the anti-immigration League. Toni Iwobi, of Spirano in Lombardy, announced “with great emotion” on his Facebook page that he had been elected to the senate in Italy’s […]

© Sergey Pivovarov / Sputnik A Russian military transport airplane has crashed during landing at Khmeimim Airbase in Syria. Six crew members as well as 33 passengers, all of them military personnel, were killed in the crash. According to preliminary information, the incident could have been caused by a technical malfunction, the Russian defense ministry […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agrees to meet South Korea’s president and impose a moratorium on nuclear tests. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has agreed to meet South Korea’s president next month and impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests if his country holds talks with the United States, a senior South Korean official said on […]

Men pray at a mosque in Madrid. Photo: AFP There were 546 reported incidents of Islamophobia in Spain in 2017, according to a report released Friday by the Citizens’ Platform Against Islamophobia (PCI). The Local breaks down the most important information from the annual report here: What types of incidents were reported? The most frequent type of […]

Toby Melville / Reuters A 33-year-old woman discovered next to a former Russian double agent has been identified as his daughter. Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former spy and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, were found on Sunday unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in the English city of Salisbury, after exposure to what police […]

Kurdish fighters of SDF ride in a truck passing damaged buildings in Raqqa on October 20, 2017. (AFP) US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria are heading to the Turkish-assaulted Kurdish enclave of Afrin, leading to an “operational pause” in their operations against ISIS, the Pentagon said Monday. The Syrian Democratic Alliance, made up mainly of […]

Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio speaking after the election. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP The Italian election was a rejection of traditional left and right parties in both the north and south of the country — but for different reasons, experts said. The far-right League party conquered the north, worried about the rise in immigration, while the […]