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AP Photo Baghdad is responsible for security in parts of Iraq “disputed” between Baghdad and Irbil, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Tuesday, going on to warn Kurdish Peshmerga forces against taking on federal government forces. “The central government is solely authorized to provide security in disputed areas [of Iraq],” al-Abadi said at a press […]

International experts warned on Tuesday about security shortcomings at French and Belgian nuclear plants that make them vulnerable to attack, in a worrying new report commissioned by the Greenpeace group. Photo: AFP International experts warned on Tuesday about security shortcomings at French and Belgian nuclear plants that make them vulnerable to attack, in a report commissioned by […]

NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga during a media briefing at a Nairobi hotel where he rejected results of the presidential election, August 9,2017. /HEZRON NJOROGE The decision is in Kenya’s interest and is “a win-win for everyone”, the NASA leader said on Tuesday. The former Prime Minister said it is only through his withdrawal that […]

Ali Gharavi. Photo: Larissa Dickey/handout via TT Sweden summoned Turkey’s ambassador on Monday over concerns that a Swedish citizen, among 11 other activists, risks up to 15 years in prison in a case that has sparked international outrage. Ali Gharavi, an IT consultant and writer, was detained while attending a July 5th workshop in Istanbul […]

Aisha Khan of Las Vegas, 23, listens to a prayer service at the Masjid Ibrahim mosque in Las Vegas, Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. The service was held in remembrance of the victims of last week’s mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Joel Angel Juarez Las Vegas Review-Journal @jajuarezphoto From the prayer room, a […]

Malawi UN soldiers © Junior D. Kannah / Reuters Vigilante mobs have begun summarily executing people suspected of being “blood-sucking” vampires, leading the UN to recall several staff members from both the Phalombe and Mulanje districts of Southern Malawi. Five people have been killed since mid-September. “While His Excellency President Arthur Peter Mutharika was attending […]

Media captionWildfires rip through California’s famous wine country Parts of California’s wine region are being ravaged by fast-spreading fires that have killed at least 10 people. A state of emergency was declared in northern areas after mass evacuations, with 1,500 properties destroyed. About 20,000 people fled from Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties in response to […]

MOSCOW: Saudi Arabia has dismissed several thousand imams from mosques for spreading extremism, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir told Russian journalists in Moscow on Sunday. “We will not let anyone spread the ideology of hatred, to finance that kind of ideology or terrorism,” he said. “Our approach to this problem has been very strict: We … […]

John Bass The decision to halt visa services in Turkey was taken with “great sadness,” the United States Ambassador to Ankara John Bass said in a statement released late Monday. The decision to halt visas came after Metin Topuz, an employee of the U.S.’ Istanbul Consulate General, was arrested over suspicions of supporting and/or being […]

Faisal BaDughaish was teaching his wife how to drive in a private parking area. (Twitter) Faisal BaDughaish, the Saudi man who tweeted a photo of him in a car teaching his wife how to drive shortly after the ban on women’s driving was lifted, said those who insulted him and threatened him on Twitter have been approached […]