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Egyptian police commandos in action. (Supplied) At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in shooting on two buses heading towards a Coptic Christian monastery in upper Egypt. According to Coptic sources, unknown gunmen fired a barrage on two buses carrying the Copts who were on their way to the monastery of St. Samuel […]

The body of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was “dissolved” after he was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a month ago, an advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. The remarks echoed what a Turkish official had told the Washington Post — for which Khashoggi was a contributor — that authorities […]

November 2 marks one month since journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. The murder of the 59-year-old – a contributor to the Washington Post and critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS – has dominated international headlines and continues to provoke reactions worldwide.As the demands for credible […]

A crane salvages the wreckage of a bus after it plunged off a bridge into the Yangtze River in China’s southwestern Chongqing early on November 1, 2018. (AFP Photo) A fight between a bus driver and a passenger who missed her stop caused the bus to plunge off a high bridge into China’s Yangtze River, […]

  Trump, flanked by Kushner, meets with MbS at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2017. (Reuters Photo) Saudi Arabia’s controversial Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) described Jamal Khashoggi, the dissident journalist brutally killed in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, as a “dangerous Islamist” and a “member of Muslim Brotherhood” in […]

Saudi Arabia has admitted Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Khashoggi – a Saudi writer, US resident, and Washington Post columnist – entered the building on October 2 to obtain documentation certifying he had divorced his ex-wife so he could remarry. After weeks of repeated denials that it had anything to do […]

North Korean women in Pyongyang, the capital. Many women in the North who have found work as traders are subjected to sexual coercion, Human Rights Watch said in a report Thursday.CreditCreditDita Alangkara/Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — Since Kim Jong-un took power in 2011, North Korea has eased restrictions on markets, allowing many families to make […]

The French President has warned Europe of a return to the 1930s because of the spread of a nationalist “leprosy” across the continent, in an interview published Thursday. He also warned that Europe risked losing its sovereignty if it is “pushed around by foreign powers.” “I am struck by similarities between the times we live […]

JAKARTA (Bloomberg): The Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia earlier this week, with the presumed loss of 189 lives, had experienced problems with the sensors used to calculate altitude and speed on its previous flight, an issue that could help explain why the plane dove into the water. Pilots on […]