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The football headlines in Germany were once again dominated by fan violence on Monday, after supporters at a cup match involving Berlin’s Hertha BSC forced the game to be suspended twice. At a cup match on Monday between Hertha BSC, one of the top team’s in the country, and third division minnows Hansa Rostock, the […]

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström said she hoped the US and North Korea would ‘come to their senses’ before their increasingly heated rhetoric leads the two nations into a nuclear war. Wallström expressed serious concern over the most recent escalation and urged the international community to “thoroughly implement” the latest round of UN sanctions against […]

 The United States is ready to use the “full range” of its capabilities if provoked by North Korea, the country’s top military officer said, noting that Washington is still hoping for a “peaceful resolution” to the crisis. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear on Monday that Air […]

President Moon Jae-in said Monday there cannot be another war on the Korean Peninsula and the North Korean nuclear and missile issues should be resolved peacefully. Moon demanded North Korea immediately stop its bellicose rhetoric and threats that are aggravating the situation. He said that if the North chooses the “right path,” the South is […]

The disappearance of an elderly man from a Brittany care home turned out to be an unlikely love story. The 93-year-old was reported missing from the retirement home in the small coastal town of Pléneuf-Val-André by his granddaughter, who arrived for her weekly visit. But when she entered his room on Saturday afternoon, the man was […]

Police used pepper spray and blast balls on rival demonstrations in Seattle on Sunday, just one day after violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaving one dead and dozens injured. Sunday’s demonstrations took place less than a mile from each other, as the pro-Trump ‘Patriot Prayer’ group gathered for the ‘Freedom Rally’ in Westlake Park, […]

At least 18 killed as minister says three attackers shot dead at Turkish restaurant in the capital Ouagadougou. An attack by gunmen on a Turkish restaurant that began late on Sunday left at least 18 people dead and eight wounded in the capital of Burkina Faso, a West African country that has seen a surge in […]

The German aid group Sea Eye on Sunday said it was suspending its migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean, citing security concerns after Libya barred foreign vessels from a stretch of water off its coast. The announcement comes a day after Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it was halting the use of its largest boat […]

Iran’s lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a motion in response to recent US sanctions, voting to boost spending on Tehran’s missile program and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ defense mechanism. In a session Sunday, 240 lawmakers voted for the bill, with only one abstention, to confront “the US terrorist and adventurous actions” in the region, Press TV […]

Mukhtar Robow, a founding father of group, reportedly taken to Mogadishu after surrendering to government forces. A renegade leader of Somalia’s al-Shabab has defected to the regional government, severing ties to the armed group that has been carrying out attacks in the country, according to a Somali military official. Al Jazeera has learned that Mukhtar […]