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© Pixabay Earth is soon set for another close shave with a hurtling space rock as an 111-foot asteroid is poised to skim past our planet on its closest approach for 115 years. First spotted by astronomers only earlier this week, the asteroid dubbed 2019 TA7 is set to fly by Earth at a speed […]

Syrian army soldiers ride at a back of a truck in the town of Morek, Hama district, Syria August 24, 2019. Omar Sanadiki, Reuters Syria’s Kurds have announced a groundbreaking deal with Damascus on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey, as Ankara presses a deadly cross-border offensive that has sparked an international outcry. […]

Turkish military vehicles carrying tanks as they are on the way to northern Syria. SEDAT SUNA/EPA Heavy fighting continued on Sunday as Turkey presses ahead in the fifth day of its military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria. Ankara says the offensive aims to remove the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of rebels led by the People’s Protection Units […]

  A Somali-Canadian human rights activist left her comfortable environment in Ottawa to war-ravaged Somalia to help women who were being raped by soldiers. At a time Somalia was almost torn apart, Ilwad Elman took a bold step to establish the first rape Crisis Centre in the capital, Mogadishu. Activism runs through her family; her […]

Kurdish protesters attend a demonstration against Turkey’s military action in northeastern Syria, in Marseille, France, October 12, 2019. Jean-Paul Pelissier, Reuters Protesters marching under the Kurdish green, red and yellow flag waved placards reading “Trump = serial killer” or calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “the true leader of Daesh,” the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State jihadist group. Organisers said “more than 20,000 people” took […]

Sabah photo Atotal of 10 civilians have been killed and dozens more wounded in mortar attacks launched by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) on civilian areas in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin and Şanlıurfa provinces on Friday. In a single attack on the Nusaybin district of southeastern Turkey’s Mardin, the PKK’s Syrian offshoot YPG killed eight civilians […]

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Democrats, Muslims and other groups condemned President Donald Trump on Friday for criticizing the state for welcoming so many Somali refugees, and they called out Republican leaders for failing to criticize his statements. At […]

Hasaka, SANA-The Turkish regime on Thursday went too far in its aggression on Syrian territories in Hasaka, Raqqa and occupied Tal Halaf, penetrated into Allouk and Katsho villages in the surroundings of Ras al-Ayn and the Industrial region in the city. Meanwhile, the Turkish aggression targeted a number of villages and towns in the countryside […]

Anti-Brexit protesters are seen outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain April 10, 2019. – European Union citizens living in the UK will be deported after Brexit if they have not applied for settled status in time, Home Office Minister Brandon Lewis affirmed on Thursday. EU citizens in the UK have until the end of […]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has established peace with neighbouring Eritrea and held numerous reforms in the country [Tiksa Negeri/Reuters] Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, the awards committee announced in Norway on Friday. He was recognised for starting peace talks with Eritrea and establishing a peace agreement to […]