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U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, attend a welcome ceremony at the State Guest House in Tokyo’s Akasaka district on Monday. | AFP-JIJI Visiting U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday met with family members of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents and pledged to […]

A young man barricaded himself inside a youth welfare office on Monday morning after taking an employee hostage. Special forces ended the situation several hours later without anyone sustaining serious injury. Police special forces in Pfaffenhofen. Photo: DPA  The hostage situation started in the town of Pfaffenhofen in Upper Bavaria at 8.30 am on Monday […]

North Korea: Radiation Leak Fears, International Double Standards and Trump’s Sudden Change of Plans Urgent warnings of a radiation leak have been issued after the collapse of a tunnel under North Korea’s 7,200 foot high Mount Mantap, under which the country tests their weapons systems. The accident, believed to have happened on 10th October – though it only came to […]

Rawa (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State’s supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly fled Iraq to Syria in a yellow taxi, the Iraqi Media News Agency reported. A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the […]

Saudi Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, deputy governor of Asir’s plane crashed in the Jarf Rida Nature Reserve which is spread around nine square kilometers , in the southwest of Saudi Arabia’s Sarawat Mountains, about 20 km northwest of Abha. Saudi Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, deputy governor of Asir’s plane crashed in the Jarf Rida Nature […]

Port operator says Berbera Free Zone will be spread across more than 12 sq km DP World Group chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem. Dubai-based DP World announced on Monday that it will develop a greenfield economic free zone in Somaliland to complement the development of the Port of Berbera. DP World Group chairman […]

A man identified in some media reports as Devin Patrick Kelley has gunned down 26 people and injured at least 20 more in an attack on Sutherland Springs Baptist Church, before he was found dead in his car. Here is what we know about the alleged attacker. @froggneal / Instagram Editor’s note: This story was […]

MA man believed to be Carles Puigdemont gestures inside the public prosecutor’s office in Brussels. Photo: AFP Catalonia’s sacked separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on Monday denounced Spain as an undemocratic country that “unjustly” jailed his colleagues, after he was freed on bail in Belgium. Puigdemont and four former ministers were released with conditions Sunday night after turning […]

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with families of Japanese abducted by North Korea, in Tokyo on Monday. From left: Hitomi Soga, Shigeo Iizuka,Abe’s wife Akie, Abe, Trump, U.S. first lady Melania, Sakie Yokota and Akihiro Arimura.  Photo: Kimimasa Mayama/Pool via AP  Declaring that North Korea was “a threat to the civilized world,” U.S. President […]

Russian riot police detain an opposition activist during a protest rally in central Moscow on November 5, 2017. (AFP Photo) Russian police detained over 400 activists in Moscow and Saint Petersburg Sunday for holding unauthorized protests against President Vladimir Putin. According to OVD-Info, a rights group that monitors detentions at Russian political protests, 412 arrests […]