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Lebanese PM and candidate for the parliamentary election Saad Al-Hariri gestures after he casts his vote in BeImage Credit: REUTERS/Jamal Saidi Beirut: The Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah and its political allies looked set to win more than half the seats in Lebanon’s first parliamentary election in nine years, according to preliminary results cited by politicians […]

© Copyright :REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger While the Donald Trump administration has been threatening to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear deal, other countries involved in drawing up the 2015 accord have been pulling out all the diplomatic stops to keep Washington on board. Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in […]

MEyewitnesses said fighter jets bombed Sanaa several times around midday [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters] Air raids have targeted the presidential office in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa, killing at least six people and wounding 30 others, according to medical sources. Witnesses said fighter jets bombed Sanaa several times at midday on Monday, with rebel-controlled Al-Masirah television blaming the […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting with Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi on May 4.  Photo: KCNA/via REUTERS BEIJING :Japan must change its tune and adopt a new approach toward North Korea if it really wants to join the diplomatic fray in affecting rapidly evolving developments on the Korean Peninsula, the Rodong Sinmun said […]

MAfrican Union soldiers from Burundi stand to attention in Mogadishu on July 11, 2017. Amisom has 22,000 soldiers with Kenya contributing 3,664 soldiers. PHOTO | MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB | AFP The Kenyan government has warned that the activities of foreign powers seeking to undermine the government in Mogadishu are a threat to regional security. In what […]

Singapore has emerged as the most likely venue for the planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to multiple diplomatic sources, Monday. The sources said the historic summit will likely take place between June 9 and 15, after Trump attends the G-7 Summit slated for June 8 to […]

A worker hangs a road sign directing to the U.S. embassy, in the area of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, May 7, 2018. (Reuters) At least three US Embassy road signs went up in Jerusalem on Monday ahead of next week’s opening of the mission in accordance with President Donald Trump’s recognition of the city […]

NAROWAL/LAHORE: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was shot at and injured during a corner meeting in his constituency in Narowal on Sunday, Geo News reported. The attacker, identified as Abid Hussain, shot at the interior minister from a distance of 15 yards as the latter was about to leave the venue in Tehsil Kanjrur, confirmed DPO […]

© Mikhail Klementiev / Sputnik Vladimir Putin has thanked the government for their efforts in overcoming past challenges, and briefly outlined future ones, in a meeting with a cabinet that will resign on Monday, the day of the Russian President’s inauguration. “It is important to maintain and develop such new approaches and, in general, to […]

Muntazer al-Zaidi attends a rally in Baghdad on May 4, 2018 for the “Marching Towards Reform” alliance between Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr and the communist party, ahead of the May 12 parliamentary elections. (AFP Photo) The Iraqi journalist who hurled his own footwear at president George W. Bush at a press conference in Baghdad in […]