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AP The European Union and Russia on Friday threw their support behind a landmark agreement struck with Iran in 2015 over its nuclear program, saying the international was working and all sides should stick to their commitments. “We are following very closely all the developments on the deal… reminding that it is a non-proliferation deal, […]

File photo of Landvetter Airport. Photo: Thomas Johansson/TT A man in his 20s was arrested at Gothenburg’s Landvetter Airport after a suspicious object was found in his luggage. Parts of a departure hall at Landvetter Airport was cordoned off by police on Thursday after security screening detected the suspicious object. The bomb squad was called […]

Berit Reiss-Andersen, the Nobel committee chair, announces the winner.  Media captionBerit Reiss-Andersen, the Nobel committee chair, announces the winner. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican). Berit Reiss-Andersen, the Nobel committee chair, said it was due to the group’s “groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty prohibition” […]

Protesters hold pro-independence Estelada flags during a general strike in Catalonia on October 3rd. Photo: AFP Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the suspension of a planned session in Catalonia’s parliament which separatist leaders have called for the region to declare independence. Judges “ordered the suspension of the plenary that has been called for on Monday in […]

FILE PHOTO: The Russian submarines Kolpino and Veliky Novgorod launch Kalibr © Vadim Savitskii / Sputnik Russian submarines have fired Kalibr cruise missiles from the Mediterranean hitting terrorist targets in Syria, the Defense Ministry said. The strikes were to support Syrian troops waging ground offensive in Deir-ez-Zor province. The submarines ‘Veliky Novgorod’ and ‘Kolpino’ launched 10 missiles on Thursday […]

Russian S-400 missiles are capable of striking targets within a 400 km range. (File photo: Reuters) Saudia Arabia have agreed a deal to purchase S400 missile defense systems from Russia on Thursday during the state visit of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to Moscow. The deal will allow the kingdom to acquire one of the most […]

‘The Canadian government has not acknowledged what happened to us,’ says Lynn Jones of Global Afrikan Congress A coalition of African-Nova Scotian groups is urging the province and Canadian government to make reparations to blacks for the enslavement of African people between the 16th and 19th centuries. Lynn Jones, the chair of the Nova Scotia chapter of […]

ALLEN BREED / ASSOCIATED PRESS In this Feb. 1, 2013, file photo, an employee of North Raleigh Guns demonstrates how a “bump” stock works at the Raleigh, N.C., shop. The gunman who unleashed hundreds of rounds of gunfire on a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, attached what is called […]

© Reuters The firebrand Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, has verbally lashed Donald Trump, claiming he knows little of Latin American geography. He also said that Trump “reads from notes,” even though the US leader is known for speaking off-the-cuff. Maduro made a series of emotional statements while addressing the 2017 Russian Energy Week in Moscow […]

Cesare Battisti leaving court in Rio de Janeiro on December 10, 2009. Photo: Antonio Scorza/AFP. Brazilian police have detained Cesare Battisti, a left-wing Italian militant and author who was convicted of murder in his home country and has been on the run for decades. Battisti apparently tried to leave Brazil for Bolivia amid reports that […]