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North Korea threatened to inflict an “unimaginable” blow on the US at the most unexpected moment. © EPA/FAZRY ISMAIL TASS, October 19. North Korea threatened to inflict an “unimaginable” blow on the US at the most unexpected moment. That is according to a statement the Korean Central News Agency issued on Thursday in connection with the […]

A copy of the letter sent by Carles Puigdemont to Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has told Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy that the region’s parliament could formally vote through its suspended independence declarion if Madrid “persists in impeding dialogue”. In his second letter to Rajoy in less than a […]

JEDDAH: According to Sabq e-newspaper, the Criminal Court in Jeddah cleared the Dog Beauty Contest organizers of a charge addressing moral and religious indecency. The contest, which had created controversy on social media, was canceled by Jeddah municipality on Eid Al-Fitr 2016. The Criminal Court had held several sessions to examine this case, in which […]

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party said on Wednesday it wants the top job in the interior ministry in exchange for entering a coalition with election winner Sebastian Kurz. Heinz-Christian Strache. Photo: AFP Kurz’s conservative ÖVP party won 31.5 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election, near-complete results show, and the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ), came in third on 26.0 […]

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has launched an attack on U.S. President Donald Trump for his attempts to row back on the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the international community. “It would be a waste of time to react to the nonsense spoken by the vulgar U.S. president,” Khamenei was cited by the […]

The government is considering equipping planned ground-based Aegis Ashore systems with the capacity to intercept cruise missiles, in addition to the ability to defend against ballistic missiles The Yomiuri Shimbun With Chinese bombers making repeated flights in areas around Japan, the government believes it should also prepare for attacks by cruise missiles, multiple government sources […]

Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Smugglers have been stealing fuel in Libya and selling it on across Europe, according to Italian police. Italian police said on Wednesday that they had broken up a network selling low-quality Libyan diesel fuel worth €30 million euros at service stations in Sicily and as far away as France and Spain. Exclusive: […]

A commander with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces battling ISIS says the city of Raqqa has been liberated from the radical militants and that combing operations are underway to clear the city of land mines and extremist sleeper cells. Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces gesture the “V” sign in Raqqa, Syria. (Reuters) Brig. Gen. Talal […]

Somalia’s president has blamed al-Shabab for the countriest deadliest attack, which killed more than 300 people. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo told Al Jazeera that the armed group’s “fingerprints” could be found over Saturday’s blast in the capital, Mogadishu, and that al-Shabab had a history of similar attacks. “This is their fingerprints, this is what they have […]

The damaged police station. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT A police station in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg was hit by a heavy explosion in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A large part of the building and even the windows on the building opposite were damaged by the force of the blast, though no people […]