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Russian and Syrian government forces have killed at least 136 civilians over the past 48 hours in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of the capital Damascus, according to residents and monitoring groups. A Syrian girl lies on a stretcher at a hospital after air raids targeted her hometown of Arbin in Eastern Ghouta on February 06 […]

“The most powerful country in history is now leading the way towards what may be terminal destruction.”   VIDEO:Noam Chomsky: American intellectual discusses the rise of Donald Trump and the Doomsday Clock That’s how famed American scholar and public intellectual Noam Chomsky assessed the consequences of Donald Trump’s presidency a year after his election.   […]

HARIPUR: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday handed down death sentence to a man and life sentence to five others in the murder case of Mashal Khan  who was lynched by a mob at Abdul Wali Khan University last year over allegations of blasphemy. Mashal Khan  The verdict in the case was announced at the […]

Coalition talks between Germany’s centre-left and conservative parties have been finalized and a deal to form a fourth Merkel government has been struck, according to insiders. The talks are being held on Wednesday in Berlin at Konrad-Adenauer-Haus. Photo: DPA According to the German Press Agency (DPA), reports in information from participants in the talks state […]

Everyone remembers the footage of a little boy who was told by his parents to decapitate his teddy bear in Syria. Some pictures of these children of ISIS holding guns are circulating on social media. Some of these children have traveled with their parents from Europe to Syria and Iraq. Others were born in these […]

  Kim Yo-jong, the youngest daughter of late leader Kim Jong-il, will watch the North and South Korean delegations march under one flag at the ceremony on Friday (9 February). Read more  Kim Yong-nam chosen to lead North Korea’s Olympics delegation  North Korea accuses Trump of human rights atrocities against Americans  North and South Korea will send […]

A new report by Turkey’s state-run religious body DİB aims to illuminate the public on how Daesh harms Islam’s image through violence that paves the way for Islamophobia and other evil actions Pictures of victims lie on flowers and flags in front of the Reina nightclub where a Daesh attack killed 39 people during New […]

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has called on Turkey to stop its military operation in the northern Syrian enclave of Afrin, saying it will only result in more deaths on both sides.  M Iran, Turkey and Russia are involved in peace negotiations to end the seven-year civil war in Syria [AFP] In a wide-ranging press conference […]

Gravity appears to be no match for Russian cosmonauts and their American and Japanese counterparts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Roskosmos / Youtube The shuttlecock was seen zooming back and forth a spacious ISS module, in a match between a duo consisting of a Russian cosmonaut and American astronaut and a duo of a […]

Italy’s foreign minister called on Tuesday for action on migration to stem populism and racism ahead of a general election in which far-right parties are forecast to perform strongly. Italy’s Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP “We have a duty to reassure our citizens, in order to fight populism and racism and safeguard popular […]