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French President Emmanuel Macron’s Republic on the Move (REM) party is heading for a large majority in Sunday’s legislative elections, a new poll shows. According to the he Harris interactive-Indeed poll published Thursday, Macron’s party, formed only last year, and its centrist ally MoDem will win between 440 and 470 seats in the 577-member parliament […]

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday it is checking on information indicating that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was reportedly killed in a Russia-led airstrike in Syria. Russian Su-34 aircraft and an Su-35 multirole fighter carried out airstrikes near the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria on May 28, […]

During a meeting with his American counterpart in Washington, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed said on Thursday that Qatar must stop interfering in the internal affairs of its neighbors. The Emirati foreign minister also spoke with US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin and discussed joint efforts to close terrorist financing networks that were […]

Authorities will in the future be allowed to take the fingerprints of refugee children as a young as six when they first enter Germany, interior ministers agreed on Wednesday. State and federal interior ministers, who met in Dresden on Wednesday, said that the current minimum age for taking the fingerprints of a child would be […]

US institutions are with Doha and not easily influenced by political changes, a Qatari official is quoted as saying. A $12bn deal to buy US F-15 fighter jets shows Qatar has deep-rooted support from Washington, a Qatari official said on Thursday, Reuters news agency reported. Qatar is facing an economic and diplomatic boycott by Saudi […]

At least seven people were killed and another 66 injured in a blast at a kindergarten in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu on Thursday afternoon, local government said. The government in Feng county, where the explosion occurred around 4.50pm, said in a statement that initial information suggested no teacher or pupils were among the […]

MOGADISHU, Somali — At least 17 people were killed in the night-long siege of a popular Mogadishu restaurant by al-Shabab Islamic extremists that was ended Thursday morning by security forces. Somali survivors early described harrowing scenes in which attackers hunted down patrons of the popular Pizza House restaurant. The injured were taken by ambulances. Al-Shabab […]

The move comes after Iraq agreed to accept deportees as part of a deal removing it from Trump’s travel ban US immigration authorities have arrested and moved to deport 199 Iraqi immigrants, mostly from the Detroit area, in the last three weeks after Iraq agreed to accept deportees as part of a deal removing it […]

The 29 years since four-year-old French boy Grégory Villemin was drowned have been marked by revenge, dashed hopes, anonymous taunting phone calls, and mystery. The case, which has gripped France, once again dominated the headlines this week. Who’s Grégory Villemin? He was a four-year-old boy found drowned in the Vologne river near Docelles, in eastern […]

(IraqiNews.com) The paramilitary troops have confronted an attack by Islamic State militants using booby-trapped vehicles near Iraqi-Syrian borders. Ahmed Radi Nasrullah, deputy commander of the 13th brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said in statements that troops “foiled a sudden attack by the militants on Wednesday.” “Infiltrating militants targeted our troops deployed on the […]