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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) welcomes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia November 20, 2017. © Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik Syria’s Bashar Assad made a surprise visit to Russia to express thanks for Moscow’s help in the fight against terrorism. At a meeting with President Putin, which […]

 WASHINGTON –  The Trump administration is due to announce new sanctions on North Korea on Tuesday after declaring it a state sponsor of terrorism in the latest push to isolate the pariah nation. North Korea on Monday joined Iran, Sudan and Syria on the terror blacklist, a largely symbolic step as the administration already has […]

Former Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma holds a Venezuelan flag at a press conference in Madrid. Photo: Javier Soriano/AFP The former mayor of Caracas, a staunch opponent of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro who fled to Spain over the weekend, vowed on Monday to battle against the president’s regime, warning him to “get ready”. Antonio Ledezma, 62, […]

President Uhuru Kenyatta after he was announced winner of the repeat poll on October 30, 2017. Several countries have congratulated President Kenyatta after his victory was upheld by the Supreme Court on November 20, 2017. PHOTO | RAPHAEL NJOROGE | NATION MEDIA GROUP Britain became the first government to congratulate President Uhuru Kenyatta after his […]

US allies campaigning hard in the halls of Congress to preserve the Iran nuclear deal are finding the process frustrating and confounding. REUTERS In conversations with CNN, some foreign diplomats and officials who back the deal say that at the highest levels, the White House has seemed at times so wedded to its talking points […]

Beijing dispatched intelligence-gathering aircraft as well as bombers through international airspace in the East China Sea. The move prompted Japan to scramble fighter jets in response, despite China calling the flyover a “regular” exercise. A Chinese military plane H-6 bomber © Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan / Reuters The incident occurred on Sunday, […]

Donald Trump has announced that the US will designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terror amid heightened nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula. Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP  Trump said the designation will impose further penalties on the country. He called it […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel was scrambling to drag Germany out of crisis on Monday after high-stakes talks to form a new government collapsed, potentially forcing Europe’s top economy into snap elections. Angela Merkel after meeting with President Steinmeier on Monday. Photo: DPA. Germany now faces weeks, if not months, of paralysis with a lame-duck government that […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has slammed Saudi Arabia for walking on the footsteps of the Zionist regime and called the Arab League’s anti-Iran statement “worthless” which is full of “lies and distortions”. Pointing to the Sunday session of the Arab League in Cairo, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said issuing “worthless statements” is […]

Russian technicians work in front of the Sukhoi SU-35 on the tarmac of Le Bourget at the Paris Air show. (File Photo: AFP) Sudan has become the first Arab country to acquire the fourth generation Su-35 fighter jets from Russia just ahead of President Omar Ahmed al-Bashir’s first visit to Moscow on Thursday. The first […]