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Photo: AFP French President Emmanuel Macron greeted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the splendour of the Versailles palace outside Paris on Monday for their first face-to-face talks. Macron and Russian counterpart Putin held their first meeting since the French leader came to office, with differences on Ukraine and Syria in full view. Macron welcomed Putin to […]

In a statement, Lt.Gen.Shaker Jawdat said, “Federal Police troops in al-Zanjili district, north of the Old City, are deploying addition troops toward al-Sihha district in order to gain control on all of the area, amid missile shelling.” “The selling targets IS defenses ahead of advancing,” he said adding that “The drone shelling left 14 militants […]

Swedish police have received reports about scam calls from numbers starting +252. Photo: Mats Schagerström/TT Police in Sweden are warning the public to avoid answering calls from unknown foreign numbers after apparent telephone scammers from Somalia targeted Swedish phones. A host of suspicious calls from numbers starting with the country code +252 were reported to […]

Charlotte Fawell who lost her mother Wendy in the Manchester bombing A survivor of the Manchester bombing has taken in the daughter of her best friend who was killed in the atrocity and has vowed to ‘love her like her own’. Caroline Davies and Wendy Fawell were at Manchester Arena to collect their children who […]

North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic missile into the East Sea on Monday, said South Korea’s military, in an apparent effort to demonstrate its advanced ballistic missile capability and use it as leverage for potential negotiation over the regime’s nuclear program. The suspected Scud-type missile lifted off at 5:39 a.m. from the North’s […]

They have forgiven him for backing off some of the promises he made on the campaign trail by chalking it up to the fact that he is still getting acclimated to the job and has never been a politician. Their primary concern is that he tweets too much. A Fox News survey showed 97 percent […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Forty-five civilians were killed and injured in airstrikes that hit Mosul’s Old City early on Sunday, news reports mentioned. A local source told Al-Furat Al-Ikhbari news website that twenty civilians were killed, while more than 25 others were wounded in an airstrike launched by the international coalition led by the U.S. at al-Farouq […]

 The Irkut MC-21, Russia’s newest civilian narrow-body airliner, made its long-awaited maiden flight, as confirmed by the producer, which hopes the jet will compete with China’s COMAC C919, the legendary Boeing 737, and the Airbus A320. READ MORE: New Russian airliner set to take on Airbus and Boeing The flight on Sunday differed from the […]

Organisers of a Bruno Mars concert scheduled for Wednesday met with police to discuss security following Monday night’s terrorist attack at a concert in Manchester. The Pro Sec security company, which is responsible for the Oslo event, reassured the public following the meeting that appropriate safety measures are in place. Bruno Mars is scheduled to […]

Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday. “The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel told a crowd at […]