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Three Iraqi Yazidi children, kidnapped by Daesh terrorists in 2014, were brought to Turkey’s southeastern province Gaziantep on Thursday to be reunited with their families. İHA Photo The children aged 5, 6 and 7 were kidnapped by Daesh in Iraq’s Sinjar region and were recovered in Syria. They were brought to the Consulate General of […]

US President Donald Trump is taking an “extremely dangerous” and “big step” towards nuclear war by seeking a naval blockade, North Korea has stated, according to the official KCNA news agency. The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Stethem are underway alongside ships from the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy […]

Vladimir Putin believes that Russia must be a 21st century country with a hi-tech powered economy. “Our GDP grew by 75% since 2000, while industrial production surged 70%, the processing industry grew at an accelerated pace,” the president pointed out. Putin added that taxes have tripled since 2000, and the country’s reserves have increased 30-fold. […]

Austria’s top court said on Tuesday that it has ruled that same-sex couples can marry, bringing the Alpine country into line with more than a dozen other European nations. A Rainbow Pride march in Vienna earlier this year. Photo: Alexander Klein/AFP “The Constitutional Court nullified with a decision on December 4th, 2017 the legal regulation […]

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has criticized the Muslim countries which failed to show a strong response to Washington’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, accusing them of being afraid of the US. Demonstrators set U.S. and Israeli flags on fire during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem […]

Demands from the nationalist Danish People’s Party (DF) that Syrian refugees be sent home as soon as possible are threatening to bring down the country’s center-right minority government. A file photo dated 13 January 2016 showing refugees in their beds at the refugee tent camp in Thisted, Northern Jutland, Denmark. (EPA Photo) The government depends […]

The presidents of Egypt and Russia attended a ceremony on Monday for the inking of a deal to start work on the Dabaa nuclear power plant, with Russia providing funding and technical expertise Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met in Cairo on Monday to attend the signing of an agreement […]

TOKYO :Russia’s military chief warned on Monday that military exercises by Japan, the United States and South Korea aimed at countering North Korea only raise hysteria and create more instability in the region. Russian Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces General Valeriy Gerasimov, right, reviews the honor guard with Japan’s Chief of […]

A mysterious large object that has come from a different star system is to be examined by one of the world’s biggest telescopes for signs of alien technology. Artist’s impression of`Oumuamua © SO/M. Kornmesser / Wikipedia The Green Bank telescope will examine a mysterious object speeding through our solar system to check for signs of […]

French President Emmanuel Macron hosted world leaders in Paris on Tuesday, two years to the day since 195 nations adopted the climate-rescue Paris Agreement – this time to talk about money. Photo: AFP Without trillions of dollars of investment in clean energy, the pact’s goal to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) […]