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The European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans on September 15 (by EC Audiovisual Service / Lukasz Kobus) While European Parliament stresses need for dialogue, Brussels continues to back executive in Madrid and appeals for respect of the law The European Commission (EC) has again called on the Spanish and Catalan executives to begin talks on […]

MFILE PHOTO: Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) are driven past the stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a military parade in Pyongyang. © Damir Sagolj / Reuters A global strike to disarm North Korea would be possible, yet its outcome uncertain, as it is a “closed state,” Russian President Vladimir Putin stated. “Let […]

DEFENSE Black Hawk Down (Credit: Screenshot/Netflix/Black Hawk Down) MThe battle began on Oct. 3, 1993 when American military forces launched Operation Gothic Serpent in the capital of the war-torn country. The original objective was to capture leadership members in the crew of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. However, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, and the […]

File Photo: Su-34 jet © Eugene Odinokove The leader of Al-Nusra has been critically injured in an airstrike carried out by the Russian Air Force, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, adding that at least 12 Al-Nusra field commanders had been killed in the same attack. Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the Commander-in-chief of Tahrir […]

Photo: Pau Barrena/AFP. Spain was braced for further political upheaval Wednesday as a crisis over Catalan demands for independence deepened after King Felipe VI urged authorities to defend “constitutional order”. Felipe’s dramatic intervention late Tuesday aimed to calm Spain’s deepest political crisis in decades, but risked further fanning resentment and tensions in the region. He spoke after hundreds of […]

catalan president carles Puigdemont(by Pere Framcesch) It’s an European issue. I think we won the right to be heard,’ Carles Puigdemont says in an interview with the BBC Catalonia is set to declare independence in a matter of days, says president Carles Puigdemont. In his first interview since Sunday’s referendum, when Spain’s police violent crackdown […]

Kurdish politician held office from 2005 to 2014 following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by a US-led invasion. Jalal Talabani, former president of Iraq and Kurdish politician, has died in Germany aged 84. He was Iraq’s president from 2005 to 2014 and a key figure in the Kurdish region of Iraq, where voters last week overwhelmingly backed independence […]

Members of the Iraqi Federal Police forces stand before a stash of projectiles belonging to Islamic State militants found western Mosul. Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Fifty Islamic State militants were killed as security thwarted an attack to target regions in south and west of Ramadi, official said on Sunday. In a press conference, Maj. Gen. Hadi Rezeij, […]

AP PHOTO/JOHN LOCHERDrapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, on the Las Vegas Strip following a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. A gunman was found dead inside a hotel room. From his hotel room on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay, Stephen […]