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Prior to the suspect’s arrest on Wednesday over alleged plans to carry out an Isis-style ramming attack on the crowds outside a skating rink in the southern German city, security authorities had kept a close eye on the man for some time. The skating rink in front of the Karlsruhe Palace. Photo: DPA. He was […]

North Korea has rejected media speculation, fuelled by the US National Security Strategy, that it’s preparing for chemical warfare. Pyongyang accused Washington of fabricating yet another “false pretext” for a surprise attack. © Wikipedia As tensions on the Korean peninsula continue to escalate, a series of reports suggest that North Korea might be developing a program to […]

Photo: St Gallen police A 61-year-old Swiss man suspected of selling arms illegally to Austria has been arrested by police in St Gallen. During a search of a property in Degersheim last week police seized 280 weapons, over 100,000 rounds of ammunition and 1.3 million francs in cash, St Gallen police said in a press release. […]

VIDEO: Police arrested the driver and another man at the scene (ABC News) Pedestrians hit by car in ‘deliberate act’ i Two men have been arrested after more than a dozen people, including a preschool-aged child, were injured when a car ran into pedestrians outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street train station. Key points: A white 4WD drives through […]

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said on Wednesday he has decided to sign into law two bills overhauling the judiciary, in defiance of European Union criticism that the legislation undermines the rule of law in central Europe’s largest economy. MV© Janek Skarzynski, AFP | New Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on December 11, 2017. I […]

The Saudi-led Arab Coalition in Yemen revealed that 83 ballistic missiles have been fired by Houthi militia forces towards the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Spokesman for the coalition forces, on Wednesday, Colonel Turki bin Saleh al-Maliki, said that the coalition forces were able to destroy a large number of Houthi ballistic missile sites including the […]

Jerusalem, holy for all three Abrahamic religions, is at the heart of the wide range of debateafter U.S. President Trump’s decision on Oct. 6 to recognize the city as Israel’s capital. A draft resolution on Jerusalem is expected to be voted on at an emergency session of the U.N. General Assembly today with the participation […]

Vladimir Putin has urged Russia’s security services to “erect a safe barrier” against foreign interference in the country’s society and politics, ahead of the presidential election next year. © Presidential Executive Office There is a great responsibility on the intelligence services to erect a safe barrier against external meddling in our social and political life, […]

The Economist magazine has named France as country of the year, just pipping South Korea to the title. And most of the credit goes to Emmanuel Macron. AFP For the last few years the UK’s economically liberal The Economist magazine has been picking its “Country of the Year”. Up until 2017, France never troubled the judges. […]

His conservative People’s Party (ÖVP), revamped by Kurz as a more hardline “movement”, agreed late on Friday a coalition deal with the far right that saw him sworn in on Monday. Photo: AFP “Our aims are quite clear. We want to ease the tax burden for people, we want to strengthen our economy, which will bolster our social system,” Kurz told reporters […]