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A sentry robot freezes a hypothetical intruder by pointing its machine gun during its test in Cheonan, 92 kms south of Seoul, 28 September, 2006. ©Kim Dong-Joo / AFP As a United Nations weapons control group meets to discuss the prospect of killer robots, RT.com looks at how new technology is bringing autonomous weaponry out […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan © Presidential Press Service, pool photo via AP ANKARA, November 13. /TASS/. Russia and the US should pull their troops out of Syria following the joint statement adopted by the two countries’ presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which says that there is no military solution to the Syrian conflict, Turkish President Recep […]

Two years to the day since the devastating terror attacks in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron led a series of sober ceremonies around the French capital on Monday to commemorate the 130 victims. Photo: AFP Macron was joined by his predecessor François Hollande and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo at the site of each attack on […]

A Saudi border guard watches as he stands in a boat off the coast of the Red Sea on Saudi Arabia’s maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan April 8, 2015. (Reuters)  Saudi Arabia said Monday that the Arab coalition fighting the Houthi militia will begin reopening airports and seaports in Yemen, days after temporarily closing them after […]

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Seven persons were killed, while 321 others were wounded as result of the earthquake that hit large parts of Iraq on Sunday evening, Kurdistan’s Health Ministry has announced. In press remarks on Monday, Health Minister Rekawt Hama Rasheed said four persons were killed in Darbandikhan, two in Garmian and one in Sulaimaniya. In […]

Catalonia’s deposed president Carles Puigdemont says he is prepared to accept a new relationship with Spain that does not involve independence. In a new interview with Belgian newspaper Le Soir, the 54-year-old conceded that “another solution which isn’t independence is possible”, suggesting a softening in stance on the region’s secessionist push. File photo of Carles […]

Manama : Eight former residents of Bahrain have come under police radar in the Indian state of Kerala for their suspected involvement in ‘Bahrain group’, a collective formed to promote Islamic State. Investigators are collecting details of their presence, base and activities in the Indian state as a man named UK Hamsa arrested from Valapattanam in […]

Lebanon outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri, in an exclusive interview with Future TV, a Lebanese television channel aligned to his Future Party, said: “My focus is on the interest of Lebanon and my resignation is for its own sake.” “My main task is to preserve Lebanon. What is happening is a regional threat to Lebanon. […]

The signing ceremony took place in the presence of President of Việt Nam Trần Đại Quang and President of the US Donald Trump, within the framework of the US President’s official state visit to Việt Nam. — Photo courtesy of VNA The national carrier Vietnam Airlines and American aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney signed a […]