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Egypt’s Interior Ministry has ordered 230, 000 police officers to secure churches ahead of Christmas celebrations across the nation. A senior official at the ministry quoted by state-run news agency MENA said all security departments are on high alert and will be taking part in protecting 2,626 churches nationwide, including 1,326 Orthodox churches, 1,200 Protestant […]

French baby-milk maker Lactalis said Thursday it was more than doubling the quantity of formula and other products recalled over salmonella fears in the second such move in two weeks. Photo: AFP “The decision was taken to extend the recall of all infant nutrition products made or packaged at our Craon site” since February, said […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Donald Trump that he “cannot buy Turkey’s democratic will,” referring to the upcoming UN vote on the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan © Depo Photos / Global Look Press TrendsUS recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s сapital “I hope and expect the United […]

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the mid-western border Thursday, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). “A low-ranking soldier defected to our GP (guard post) across the mid-western border at 8:04 a.m.,” a JCS official said, asking not to be named. The latest defection came about 40 days after another […]

Prior to the suspect’s arrest on Wednesday over alleged plans to carry out an Isis-style ramming attack on the crowds outside a skating rink in the southern German city, security authorities had kept a close eye on the man for some time. The skating rink in front of the Karlsruhe Palace. Photo: DPA. He was […]

North Korea has rejected media speculation, fuelled by the US National Security Strategy, that it’s preparing for chemical warfare. Pyongyang accused Washington of fabricating yet another “false pretext” for a surprise attack. © Wikipedia As tensions on the Korean peninsula continue to escalate, a series of reports suggest that North Korea might be developing a program to […]

Photo: St Gallen police A 61-year-old Swiss man suspected of selling arms illegally to Austria has been arrested by police in St Gallen. During a search of a property in Degersheim last week police seized 280 weapons, over 100,000 rounds of ammunition and 1.3 million francs in cash, St Gallen police said in a press release. […]

VIDEO: Police arrested the driver and another man at the scene (ABC News) Pedestrians hit by car in ‘deliberate act’ i Two men have been arrested after more than a dozen people, including a preschool-aged child, were injured when a car ran into pedestrians outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street train station. Key points: A white 4WD drives through […]

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said on Wednesday he has decided to sign into law two bills overhauling the judiciary, in defiance of European Union criticism that the legislation undermines the rule of law in central Europe’s largest economy. MV© Janek Skarzynski, AFP | New Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on December 11, 2017. I […]

The Saudi-led Arab Coalition in Yemen revealed that 83 ballistic missiles have been fired by Houthi militia forces towards the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Spokesman for the coalition forces, on Wednesday, Colonel Turki bin Saleh al-Maliki, said that the coalition forces were able to destroy a large number of Houthi ballistic missile sites including the […]