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BEIJING: China said Tuesday it backs the Myanmar government´s efforts to “uphold peace and stability” in Rakhine state, where a military crackdown has sent more than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing for Bangladesh. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang made the comments as the United Nations Security Council prepared to hold an urgent meeting on the crisis […]

Flood damage to homes in the Livorno area. Photo: STR/AFP Search teams on Tuesday morning found the body of a 67-year-old man killed in heavy flooding in the Tuscan city of Livorno over the weekend. The discovery brought the total death toll to eight, after six other bodies were found on Sunday and one on Monday, following […]

raqi parliament. Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi parliament voted Tuesday against a planned referendum by Kurdistan Region Government on independence from Iraq, obliging the Iraqi government to take measures to “preserve the unity of Iraq”. The session was attended by 204 of parliament’s 328 members. “The Iraqi Constitution had enumerated issues for which a referendum is required, […]

A Swedish soldier taking part in a previous drill. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT The biggest Swedish military exercise in over 20 years has started in Gothenburg, with French and US air defence units as well as other overseas troops joining the Swedes in the Aurora 17 drill of more than 20,000 military personnel. Taking place between […]

President Erdoğan said a lack of cooperation from allied countries in defense pushed Turkey to produce its own both unarmed drones and armed drones. As part of Ankara’s steps to improve its national defense systems and strategies, Turkey has made the down payment for the S-400 missile system to Russia, President Erdoğan said President Recep […]

The NRM marching in Falun. Photo: Ulf Palm/TT Sweden’s main organization for Jews is appealing a police decision to grant the openly racist neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) permission to stage a march near a synagogue in Gothenburg on September 30th. The march will not only fall on the same day as the […]

Sixteen years after Sept 11 attacks and the US has not convicted anybody for the tower-felling spectacle of “terror”. People run from the collapse of World Trade Center on Tuesday September 11, 2001 in New York City [Suzanne Plunkett/AP] New York City – Time moves slowly for the five men accused of the 9/11 attacks. Sixteen years […]

Almost 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have poured out of Myanmar since 25 August The security operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar “seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, the UN human rights chief says. Zeid Raad Al Hussein urged Myanmar to end the “cruel military operation” in Rakhine state. More than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled […]

Al-Shabab said 24 Somali soldiers were killed in the raid, but a Somali military official put the figure at around 10 dead soldiers [File: Hamza Mohamed/Al Jazeera] Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after al-Shabab detonated a suicide car bomb and then stormed the military base […]

Most came from Turkey. Many others were from former Soviet states, such as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Russia. (Twitter) Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected ISIS fighters after government forces expelled the militant group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said. Most came from […]