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Earlier in April, Trump said Saudi Arabia had to pay if it wanted US troops to remain in Syria [Shawn Thew/EPA-EFE] US president says wealthy Middle East countries must foot the bill for US presence in Syria and deploy their own troops. US President Donald Trump has said that some “immensely wealthy” countries in the […]

Photo: AFP Ministers from 80 countries and nearly 500 experts gather in Paris from Wednesday for a conference on combating the financing of terror groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaeda, French officials said. Attacks have become increasingly low-cost since the 9/11 atrocities in the United States in 2001, particularly in recent years when followers […]

A woman wearing a Muslim headscarf walks past people holding US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump signs before the start of the annual Muslim Day Parade in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on September 25, 2016. (Reuters) The 300 hate crimes were a slice of the 2,599 incidents CAIR logged as representing anti-Muslim […]

Sultan Hashim Ahmad, left, and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf in Baghdad in this March 23, 2003 photo. (AP) Fourteen officials from Saddam Hussein’s regime are still in Iraq’s prisons, 15 years after the late dictator was deposed by a US-led invasion in 2003, according to an AFP survey. Of the list of 55 suspects most wanted […]

Central Jewish Council President advises Germany’s Jews against wearing kippas in major cities. Photo: DPA The recent attack on two men wearing kippas in Berlin has alarmed the Central Jewish Council. On Tuesday its President, Josef Schuster, advised Germany’s Jews against wearing kippas in cities like Berlin or Munich. “Confessing defiantly would in principle be […]

President Moon Jae-in has reaffirmed that signing a treaty to formally end the Korean War will require a tripartite agreement among North and South Korea and the United States, and is not possible just between the two Koreas. He made the remarks during a 40-minute phone conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tuesday, three […]

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed arrives for celebrations to mark the 57th anniversary of the Somali National Armed Forces in the capital Mogadishu, April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar  The recent statement from the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) that American forces had carried out an airstrike destroying an al-Shabaab truck bomb near Jana Cadalle in southern Somalia […]

Photo: AFP The French and American presidents walked in step as they approached George Washington’s historic Mount Vernon mansion overlooking the Potomac River, their stiletto-clad wives following as a harpist serenaded the glamorous double date. Donald Trump’s answer to a lavish Eiffel Tower dinner last summer at the invitation of Emmanuel Macron, Monday’s theatricality set […]

Alleged driver of the vehicle identified as Alek Minassian, as police search for motive. Meanwhile, anguished Toronto residents wondered why. If ever there was a moment for an overdose of quintessential Canadian resilience it is now, as our metropolis struggles to make sense of the incomprehensible: a deliberate massacre on Toronto’s most famous street. A […]

© Brian Barker / Instagram Nine people have been killed and 16 more are injured after a white van struck a number of pedestrians in Toronto, police said. The incident on Yonge Street and Finch Avenue East occurred just after 1 pm local time. The Toronto Police Department which said in a press conference shortly […]