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The Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump for help in preventing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. Data provided by the CIA enabled Russian security services to find and detain terrorists © Reuters / Global Look Press The Russian leader expressed his gratitude in a telephone call, adding that the Russian security […]

Turkey intends to open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to recognise it as the capital of Palestine. President Tayyip Erdogan (AFP) It was not clear how he would carry out the move, as Israel controls all […]

Turkey has slammed the incoming Austrian government for ‘discrimination’. Photo: Alex Halada/AFP Turkey on Sunday slammed the incoming Austrian government, a coalition between conservatives and the far-right, for “discrimination” after its programme contained a pledge that Vienna will not agree to Ankara joining the EU. The landmark coalition deal, marking the return to power in […]

Hassan Salem, 12, works at a mechanic’s shop seven days a week, 10 hours a day, to help his family survive [Lisa Khoury/Al Jazeera] Beddawi, Lebanon – Mahmoud Mashwra was 12 when he left school to sell candy on the street. Mashwra, whose family fled Israeli oppression in the Palestinian territories years ago in hopes of […]

At least nine people were killed and more than 50 wounded when two suicide bombers attacked a church in Quetta during a service Sunday, just over a week before Christmas, police said. Two women were among the dead at a Methodist church , said provincial Home Secretary Akbar Harifal. Several of the wounded were in serious condition, police added. Officials said security forces […]

Israeli and US flags placed on the roof of an Israeli settlement building in East Jerusalem on Decem European Union leaders on Thursday rejected US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, saying they stuck by their view that the city’s status should be settled by negotiation. Trump’s administration invited widespread criticism […]

© Wikus de Wet, AFP | South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma (C) takes his seat during a presidential Gala dinner at the NASREC Expo Centre in Johannesburg on December 15, 2017. South Africa’s ruling ANC party holds a conference starting Saturday to elect its new leader in a hotly contested two-way race seen as a […]

After celebrating a resounding success in the recent parliamentary elections, the anti-immigrant Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) has joined a coalition government with Sebastian Kurz’s conservative Austrian People’s Party (OVP). Head of the Freedom Party (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache (L) and head of the People’s Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz © Leonhard Foeger / Reuters The agreement […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that North Korea must stop its “threatening behaviour” before diplomatic talks between the two countries can resume. Tillerson accused North Korean leader Kim Jong-un of conducting ‘unlawful missile launches’ [Stephanie Keith/Reuters] Tillerson accused North Korean leader Kim Jong-un of conducting ‘unlawful missile launches’ [Stephanie Keith/Reuters] Tillerson, speaking at the United Nations Security […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former “Apprentice” star Omarosa is putting the White House on notice as she makes her exit: She has “quite a story to tell” about her time in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and “the world will want to hear it.” AP file photo Accustomed to the spotlight, Omarosa Manigault Newman appeared on […]