Kurdish politician held office from 2005 to 2014 following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by a US-led invasion. Jalal Talabani, former president of Iraq and Kurdish politician, has died in Germany aged 84. He was Iraq’s president from 2005 to 2014 and a key figure in the Kurdish region of Iraq, where voters last week overwhelmingly backed independence […]
Continue reading …Members of the Iraqi Federal Police forces stand before a stash of projectiles belonging to Islamic State militants found western Mosul. Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Fifty Islamic State militants were killed as security thwarted an attack to target regions in south and west of Ramadi, official said on Sunday. In a press conference, Maj. Gen. Hadi Rezeij, […]
Continue reading …AP PHOTO/JOHN LOCHERDrapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, on the Las Vegas Strip following a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. A gunman was found dead inside a hotel room. From his hotel room on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay, Stephen […]
Continue reading …United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. UN Photo/Evan Schneider 3 October 2017 – Strongly condemning recent violence in south-west and north-west regions of Cameroon, including reported loss of life, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has urged all stakeholders to refrain from any further acts of violence and called on the authorities to investigate the incidents. In a statement attributable to […]
Continue reading …Photo: AFP French lawmakers will vote on Tuesday on a tough new counter-terrorism law designed to end the country’s two-year state of emergency, though critics say it will expand police powers at a cost to civil liberties. French lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a tough new counter-terrorism law designed to end the country’s two-year state […]
Continue reading …Somali Prime Minister Khayre and Turkish military chief of staff General Hulusi Akar during the opening ceremony Turkey’s largest military base overseas is now operational in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. The base will especially serve as a military academy, and some 200 Turkish soldiers deployed there will primarily have the duty to effectively form the Somali army. The […]
Continue reading …US police dig into ex-accountant’s history to establish a motive, as Las Vegas residents honour mass shooting’s victims. A woman lights candles at a vigil on the Las Vegas strip following the mass shooting [Chris Wattie/Reuters] The Las Vegas attacker accused of carrying out the worst mass shooting in modern US history had an arsenal […]
Continue reading …The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT The winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics have been announced in Stockholm. 12:30 Who are the winners? Barry C Barish, born 1936, is a Professor of Physics and Kip S Thorne, born 1940, a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. […]
Continue reading …© KCNA / Reuters North Korea vowed to make “nuclear clouds” over Japan, which had called for more pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs. It has also said that in case of a nuclear war, Japan will be immediately “engulfed in flames.” Read more Alarming graphic predicts radioactive aftermath of N. Korean nuclear […]
Continue reading …A man casts his vote in a polling station for the banned separatist referendum in Barcelona, Spain October 1, 2017. © Eloy Alonso / Reuters Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has accused the EU of hypocrisy and double-standards following its denouncement of the Catalonian referendum as illegal, while acknowledging the independence of the breakaway province of Kosovo. […]
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