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File photo: magicinfoto/Depositphotos< Just a few months after police uncovered the largest-ever hoard of undelivered mail in Italy, another rogue postman has emerged. The 33-year-old from the northern city of Turin failed to deliver post for three years, telling police it was because his salary was “too low”, so much so he quit the job […]

Yaser Murtaja, 30, was shot in the stomach in Khuza’a in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6 [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters] Yaser Murtaja was shot in the stomach during Friday’s mass protests, bringing total death toll to 31 since March 30. A Palestinian journalist shot by Israeli forces during a mass demonstration along the Gaza border has […]

  President Vladimir Putin dismissed eleven generals from the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Investigative Committee. The relevant decree was published on the website of legal information. Putin’s decree also contains new appointments. The reasons for personnel changes have not been named, […]

There are 24 members of the Humboldt Broncos, with members of the team ranging in age from 16 to 21.(Humboldt Broncos/Twitter) The RCMP confirmed 14 fatalities and 14 injuries in a collision involving a junior hockey team’s bus in Saskatchewan on Friday, with rescue efforts ongoing late into the evening. Police say there were 28 […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has received an invitation to visit Russia, according to U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats. Coats’ claim adds to speculation that Kim may meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to bolster diplomatic leverage on North Korea’s nuclear program before a planned inter-Korean summit on April 27. Kim, who visited […]

Israeli forces shoot dead four Palestinians and wound hundreds more as protests near Gaza border continue. For a second week, thousands of Palestinians are protesting along the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip, as part of the Great March of Return movement. Israeli forces have killed 25 Palestinians during the past week, including 17 on the […]

A lower court in Seoul sentenced former President Park Geun-hye, 66, to 24 years in prison and fined her 18 billion won ($16.8 million) on corruption charges Friday. This makes her the nation’s third ex-president to be criminally convicted. The decision by the Seoul Central District Court came almost a year after she was removed […]

NATO does not want a new arms race with Russia, the alliance’s secretary general has said amid heightened tensions following an ex-spy’s poisoning in England. “We don’t want a new arms race, so we are focused on how can we respond” in a “firm strong predictable, but also measured and defensive, way,” Jens Stoltenberg told […]

© Daphné Benoit, AFP | Soldiers of the Operation Barkhane, a French counter-terrorism operation in Africa’s Sahel region have dinner with French defence minister Florence Parly as they celebrate New Year’s eve, on December 31, 2017. French and Malian troops killed about 30 Islamist insurgents during a gunbattle in a region near the border with […]

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up during a roundtable discussion on tax policy, Thursday, April 5, 2018, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Trump, speaking at a roundtable on tax reform, said the military would be building “some” of the southern border wall. Trump’s remarks came during an extended riff on […]