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© Oleksiy Maksymenko / Global Look Press Moscow has nothing to do with political advertisements on Facebook that were allegedly aimed at influencing the 2016 US presidential election, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. “We don’t know who placed the advertisements on Facebook or how, and have never done it. The Russian side has […]

Photo: DPA A report written by the German parliament’s legal experts has found that parliament and not Angela Merkel should have decided on opening Germany’s borders to refugees in September 2015. The report by the Bundestag Scientific Office, a team of non-partisan legal experts, stated that it is the role of the Bundestag (German parliament) […]

Image North Korean state media released this picture of Mr Kim delivering his statement/REUTERS/KCNA Kim Jong-un has said remarks by “deranged” US President Donald Trump have convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea. In an unprecedented personal statement, via state media, Mr Kim said Mr Trump would “pay dearly” for his […]

FILE PHOTO: A US-made military vehicle used by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an American-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, drives through an eastern area of the embattled Syrian city of Raqa © Delil Souleiman / AFP Moscow has warned the US that if militias it supports in northeast Syria again attack positions of pro-government forces backed by […]

Catalan regional vice-president and chief of Economy and Finance, Oriol Junqueras (L), President of the Catalan Government Carles Puigdemont (C) and president of the Catalan parliament Carme Forcadell atalan regional vice-president and chief of Economy and Finance, Oriol Junqueras (L), President of the Catalan Government Carles Puigdemont (C) and president of the Catalan parliament Carme […]

Annah (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Army/ Iraqi security forces recaptured on Thursday the police station of one of Islamic State’s last three bastions in  western Anbar as the government embarked on a wide-scale campaign to clear the group’s last havens in the country. “Advances continue but with utmost caution,” said the source. Iraqi security forces ride in […]

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had made a decision on the fate of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. “I have decided,” Trump said three times to reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. However, he declined to share more details. “I’ll let you know what the decision […]

© KCNA / Global Look Press   US President Donald Trump’s fiery threat to “totally destroy” North Korea amounted to “the sound of a dog barking,” Pyongyang said, adding that Trump’s warnings are just a nonsensical “dog dream.” Read more N. Korea threatens US with ‘horrible nuclear strike and miserable and final ruin’ “If he […]

Spontaneous protests broke out on the streets of Barcelona. All photos: AFP Thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona on Wednesday as Spanish police detained 13 Catalan government officials in a crackdown ahead of an independence referendum deemed illegal by Madrid. With tensions mounting, separatist organisations called for more people to protest as leaders […]

© Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik Russian troops have started to routinely return to their home bases after the end of the joint Russia-Belarus Zapad 2017 exercises that earlier provoked large-scale hysteria in the West over their nature, numbers and purpose. Units of the Russian Air Force were first to set off for home following the […]