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The number of migrants arriving in Italy has dropped off significantly since the summer. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFP Migrant arrivals in Italy have dropped nearly 70 percent since summer as a deal with Libya blocks boats and would-be asylum seekers use other routes into Europe. Nearly 150,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean so far this year, […]

The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier is one of three strike groups heading towards the Korean Peninsula [File: Ha Kyung-min/Newsis via AP] The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier is one of three strike groups heading towards the Korean Peninsula [File: Ha Kyung-min/Newsis via AP] North Korea needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent to prevent “invasion […]

Deir Ezzor, SANA-Army units, operating in Deir Ezzor, continued their operations against ISIS terrorist organization in the southern part of Deir Ezzor city and on the direction of al-Boukamal in the far eastern countryside of the province amid large collapse in the ranks of terrorists. SANA reporter in Deir Ezzor said that army units, backed […]

US media identified the suspect as Sayfullo Saipov, seen in this 2016 photo Sayfullo Saipov, the man named by officials as the suspect in Tuesday’s New York truck attack that killed eight people and injured 12, arrived in the US from Uzbekistan in 2010 and is married with three children. A legal permanent resident of […]

The new German parliament only met for the first time at the end of October and already the first impasse has been reached. The other parties are refusing to accept the Alternative for Germany (AfD) nominee for Bundestag vice-president. Is this petulance or principle? Photo: DPA Who is the Bundestag President? On October 24th Germany’s […]

Out of touch? People walk past a bar in Barcelona showing a live broadcast of Carles Puigdemont’s news conference in Brussels on October 31st. Photo: Josep Lago/AFP. Spain’s top criminal court summoned Catalonia’s axed separatist leader for questioning, hours after he appeared in Brussels insisting he remained the “legitimate president” of a region now under […]

The choice of the Russian population for generic material was not intentional, and is related to research on the musculoskeletal system, the US Air Education and Training Command (AETC) spokesman said. FILE PHOTO © Michaela Rehle / Reuters Eyebrows were first raised in July when the AETC issued a tender seeking to acquire samples of ribonucleic acid […]

 A Women is aided by first responders after sustaining injury on a bike path in lower Manhattanin New York [Reuters] MAt least eight people have been killed and 11 injuredin New York City after a driver ploughed into cyclists and pedestrians before being shot by police. Here is what we know so far: What happened and when?  At […]

Egypt’s air force killed a large number of militants responsible for a deadly attack on a police convoy 10 days ago, the military said on Tuesday following an air raid on the militant’s base Egyptian security forces stand guard in Giza’s Kerdasa district, south of Cairo, Egypt. (File photo: AP) The raid, the second in […]

FILE PHOTO. © Vadim Savitskii / Sputnik A Russian submarine has fired a barrage of Kalibr cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea at targets in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor governorate, destroying Islamic State command posts, fortifications and arms depots, the Russian Defense Ministry said. On Tuesday, the ‘Veliky Novgorod’ attack submarine of the Varshavyanka class targeted positions […]