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Iran unveils new ballistic missile during military parades Iran has unveiled a new ballistic missile during military parades held across the nation to mark the first day of the annual Sacred Defense Week. The missile, named Khorramshahr, was put on display during the military parade in Tehran on Friday, with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and senior […]

Operations under way but report of miraculous rescue of girl trapped under rubble of school in Mexico City proves false. Mexico’s search-and-rescue operation is focusing on 10 buildings, where authorities hope to find survivors from Tuesday’s 7.1 earthquake. At least 273 people died and 2,000 people were injured when buildings collapsed due to the tremors About 50 […]

© Oleksiy Maksymenko / Global Look Press Moscow has nothing to do with political advertisements on Facebook that were allegedly aimed at influencing the 2016 US presidential election, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. “We don’t know who placed the advertisements on Facebook or how, and have never done it. The Russian side has […]

Photo: DPA A report written by the German parliament’s legal experts has found that parliament and not Angela Merkel should have decided on opening Germany’s borders to refugees in September 2015. The report by the Bundestag Scientific Office, a team of non-partisan legal experts, stated that it is the role of the Bundestag (German parliament) […]

Image North Korean state media released this picture of Mr Kim delivering his statement/REUTERS/KCNA Kim Jong-un has said remarks by “deranged” US President Donald Trump have convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea. In an unprecedented personal statement, via state media, Mr Kim said Mr Trump would “pay dearly” for his […]

FILE PHOTO: A US-made military vehicle used by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an American-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, drives through an eastern area of the embattled Syrian city of Raqa © Delil Souleiman / AFP Moscow has warned the US that if militias it supports in northeast Syria again attack positions of pro-government forces backed by […]

Catalan regional vice-president and chief of Economy and Finance, Oriol Junqueras (L), President of the Catalan Government Carles Puigdemont (C) and president of the Catalan parliament Carme Forcadell atalan regional vice-president and chief of Economy and Finance, Oriol Junqueras (L), President of the Catalan Government Carles Puigdemont (C) and president of the Catalan parliament Carme […]

Annah (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Army/ Iraqi security forces recaptured on Thursday the police station of one of Islamic State’s last three bastions in  western Anbar as the government embarked on a wide-scale campaign to clear the group’s last havens in the country. “Advances continue but with utmost caution,” said the source. Iraqi security forces ride in […]

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had made a decision on the fate of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. “I have decided,” Trump said three times to reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. However, he declined to share more details. “I’ll let you know what the decision […]

© KCNA / Global Look Press   US President Donald Trump’s fiery threat to “totally destroy” North Korea amounted to “the sound of a dog barking,” Pyongyang said, adding that Trump’s warnings are just a nonsensical “dog dream.” Read more N. Korea threatens US with ‘horrible nuclear strike and miserable and final ruin’ “If he […]