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Victims of the Grenfell Tower fire have met the prime minister in Downing Street to discuss their “demands” amid growing anger in the wake of the blaze. A man representing the group, said they would make a full statement “in the community” about their “demands and what we expect”. Victims of the Grenfell Tower block […]

The Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” (‘God is greatest’) resonated through the crowded Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Mosque Friday as US-Malaysian Ani Zonneveld, one of the world’s few female imams, launched the call to prayer. Then one of the founders of the new place of worship, lawyer and women’s rights activist Seyran Ates, opened the event with words of welcome […]

 Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A military operation was launched to drive Islamic State militants out of western regions in Anbar province, a senior Iraqi officer was quoted as saying.“Military offensive was launched on Saturday to clear Annah and Rawa cities, west of Anbar. Eight IS militants were killed after troops invaded these regions and destroyed three booby-trapped […]

Groups fighting to end Indian rule step up attacks on Indian government forces patrolling the divided region. Clashes in Indian-administered Kashmir have killed 10 people – five police officers, a soldier, two civilians and two suspected separatist fighters, according to Indian authorities. Violence in disputed Kashmir has risen to new levels over the past few […]

The number of militant extremists living in Sweden has soared from a couple of hundreds a few years ago to thousands today, the security police Säpo believes. “We have never seen anything like it before,” said Säpo chief Anders Thornberg in an interview with Swedish news agency TT. Säpo head Anders Thornberg. Photo: Claudio Bresciani/TT […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined the chorus of criticism over a new US anti-Russia sanctions bill that would involve fines on EU companies contributing to joint pipeline projects, saying Washington has nothing to do with Europe’s energy policy. The US Senate on Wednesday moved to expand the package of sanctions targeting Russian industries © […]

(Reuters) Kurdish fighter Habun Kamishli proudly recalled the cat and mouse game she played with an Islamic State suicide bomber in the Syrian town of Raqqa, where the militant group is likely to make its last stand. “I was standing on a rooftop yesterday as our forces advanced. I noticed he was trying to sneak […]

US president reportedly under investigation for obstruction of justice in connection with Russia collusion probe. Trump’s tweet seem to highlight frustration with ongoing probe into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election [File: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP] US President Donald Trump appeared to confirm on Friday that he was under investigation and seemingly took aim at a senior […]

JIUQUAN, June 15 (Xinhua) — China launched its first X-ray space telescope to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, via a Long March-4B rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert at 11 a.m. Thursday. The 2.5-tonne Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), dubbed Insight, was sent into an orbit of 550 […]

Photo: AFP Somalia’s ambassador to the EU has tied an agreement with Denmark on rejected asylum seekers to the long-standing and controversial case of a Somali refugee detained at a Danish psychiatric unit since 2001. The north east African country wants Denmark to release 36-year-old Abdulle Ahmed as a condition of entering talks on accepting […]