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Decision comes after days of clashes between Iraqi and Kurdish forces Canadian special forces soldiers, left and right, speak with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters at an observation post in northern Iraq in February. Canada is suspending its training and assistance operations due to worsening relations between allied Iraqi and Kurdish forces in the region. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian […]

The key to the coming petro-yuan lies in Moscow. And, if the Chinese currency eventually succeeds in usurping the long-standing petrodollar, Washington will only have itself to blame. © Alexei Danichev / Sputnik News that China plans to launch a yuan-denominated oil futures contract by the end of this year has come as a surprise to […]

The United States will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and any nuclear attack by Pyongyang will be met with a massive military response, the US defence chief warned. Mattis, right, and South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo inspect a guard of honour on Saturday [Lee Jin-man/AP] James Mattis made the comments in Seoul, South […]

Photo: AFP An Italian court on Friday sentenced an HIV-positive man to 24 years in jail for intentionally infecting 30 women he had unprotected sex with over nearly 10 years. Under the pseudonym “Hearty Style”, 33-year-old accountant Valentino Talluto seduced dozens of young women on social networks and internet dating sites, often dating several at […]

The United Kingdom released its final report Friday on the WannaCry ransomware attacks that caused mass © Getty Images  disruption in its hospital system, with a U.K. official saying the country believes the attacks originated in North Korea. “This attack, we believe quite strongly that it came from a foreign state,” Ben Wallace, a junior minister for […]

Catalonia woke up Saturday under the direct control of Madrid as the Spanish prime minister took drastic measures to quash secession, deposing the region’s leaders and dissolving its parliament hours after lawmakers declared independence. Photo: AFP In a dramatic escalation of a political crisis that has stoked alarm in Europe and sent shockwaves through Spain, […]

This image taken on October 27, 2017 shows structures set ablaze by gangs in Kawangware, Nairobi. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NATION MEDIA GROUP Police were Friday evening battling marauding rival gangs in Nairobi’s Kawangware 56 who were engaging in looting shops and private residences as well as burning businesses. The gangs, claiming to be […]

A Somali government soldier in Mogadishu in 2011. Photo: DPA. A Frankfurt court sentenced a Somali-born German national to two years and ten months in jail on Friday, for joining the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group and fighting alongside the Islamists in his native country. The suspect, identified only as 29-year-old Abshir A, was found guilty of […]

‘The relevant procedures are being taken’  One policeman died and eight others sustained serious to medium injuries when a police bus was targeted in a terror act crime at 5:26 PM on Friday, Bahrain new agency reported. Terrorists attacked the bus while it was driving on Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman highway towards Manama near Jidhafs, […]

Crowds gather in Barcelona to celebrate the proclamation of a Catalan republic. Photo: AFP Catalan lawmakers voted on Friday to declare independence from Spain but Madrid moved swiftly to quash the breakaway bid in a sharp escalation of a crisis causing jitters in secession-wary Europe. As thousands of pro-independence activists cheered outside, the regional parliament in […]