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Turkey will withdraw its 40 troops from a planned NATO drill after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s name and the picture of Turkish Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk were used in an “enemy chart” the president said Friday. AA Photo He also harshly criticized Western powers for supporting the PKK’s Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party (PYD) […]

At least five people were killed yesterday in a day of chaos marked by violent confrontations between police and supporters of Nasa leader Raila Odinga who had turned out in large numbers to welcome him back into the country at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. Police face off with Nasa supporters on Jogoo Road as […]

Harare, Zimbabwe – Pressure is mounting on Robert Mugabe to step down as Zimbabwe’s president, as efforts to force the veteran leader to resign after nearly four decades in office gain traction. Zimbabwe has been in political turmoil since the early hours of Wednesday, when the country’s armed forces seized power and placed Mugabe under […]

EU President Donald Tusk warned Britain Friday to make “much more progress” on its Brexit bill and the Irish border by the start of next month to unlock the next phase of talks. European Council President Donald Tusk and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT Tusk said he had told British […]

Iraqi troops raise the Iraqi flag on a liberated area in Mosul Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Interior Minister has said that the military presence of Islamic State militants is over after the liberation of Rawa in western Anbar. Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, commander of Jazeera and Upper Euphrates Combing Operations, announced, an hour earlier, […]

The women’s coffins in Salerno’s main cemetery. Photo: Eliano Imperato/AFP Italy’s southern city of Salerno held a mass funeral on Friday for 26 young women from Nigeria who drowned earlier this month trying to cross the Mediterranean. READ MORE: Nigerian girls drowned at sea, Italian autopsies find Twenty-six coffins were laid out in Salerno’s Monumental Cemetery […]

General Chiwenga Herald Reporter— PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday met Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander General Constantino Guveya Chiwenga at State House in Harare. The meeting, that was also attended by South African envoys comprising Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and State Security Minister Bongani Bongo, was also attended by Roman Catholic cleric Father Fidelis Mukonori, Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at the EU summit. Photo: AP Photo/Virginia Mayo/TT Speaking to a Swedish newspaper on Thursday, British Prime Minister Theresa May suggested that she hoped to offer a financial deal to the EU next month – and claimed that all UK ministers were behind her vision for Brexit. The British […]

Russia vetoed a US draft resolution to extend the mandate of United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), current Council president and Italian Ambassador to the United Nations Sebastiano Cardi told the Council on Thursday. UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The JIM’s mandate expires on November 17. “The result of the voting is as follows: […]

Afghan secuirty forces are seen at the site of an explosion near a gathering of supporters of regional leader Atta Mohammad Noor, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 16, 2017. (AP Photo) A suicide attacker blew himself up outside a wedding hall in Kabul killing at least nine people, officials said Thursday, in an apparent attempt to […]