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Yingluck Shinawatra FM prime Ministet  BANGKOK (Reuters) – The leader of Thailand’s military junta said on Thursday that Yingluck Shinawatra, the prime minister he ousted three years ago, was in Dubai, having fled there last month to avoid being jailed over a rice subsidy scheme that lost billions of dollars. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the […]

The Abu Dhabi-based carrier said the aircraft was diverted safely to Kuwait where a medical team was present to assist him. (Supplied) An Etihad Airways pilot passed away while operating a flight from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam, forcing the flight to divert its path and make an emergency landing in Kuwait. In a statement on […]

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him. The US president accused the social network of “collusion” on Twitter, branding it “anti-Trump”. He made the same claim against the New York Times and the Washington Post. Facebook will shortly hand over 3,000 political adverts to […]

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro attends a military parade in Maracay, Venezuela September 26, 2017. © Miraflores Palace / Reuters The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has urged the national armed forces “be at ready” to defend the country’s sovereignty and people amid threats by US. “We have been blatantly threatened by the most criminal empire […]

Pilot Asli  Somalia is celebrating the return of Africa’s first female pilot, Africa News reported. Asli Hassan Abade, 59, returned to her country of birth Somalia after spending two decades away. Abade left Somalia in 1970 to learn to fly in Italy, then moved to the United States where she married an aeroplane engineer. Image of Somalia’s […]

The Nordic Resistance Movement march in Gothenburg has already been shortened. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT Police from across Sweden will be called to Gothenburg to help manage a planned neo-Nazi demonstration in the centre of the city. On September 30th the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) will hold a demonstration in Sweden’s second city, following a previous […]

Eliot L. Enge  ERBIL — US Congressman Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said that he firmly believes in Kurd’s right to self-determination. In a statement on Kurdistan Region’s independence referendum, Engel said “it’s no wonder” that Kurds are seeking self-determination to protect themselves in the future, given the fact […]

File Photo Iraq will suspend all foreign flights to and from airports operated by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) starting Friday, the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority (IraqCAA) said Wednesday. The statement comes after the KRG refused to surrender authority of airports to the central government in Baghdad. In a statement, the civil aviation authority said […]

Photo: AFP There was anger and shock in France this week after it emerged that prosecuters had deemed an 11-year-old’s sexual relationship with a 28-year-old man was consensual. The case, which made national headlines and led to anger among children’s rights groups, centers around a sexual encounter that took place between a 28-year-old man and […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (file photo) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has given the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) three days to hand over control of its airports if it seeks to avoid an international air embargo, a retaliatory move the Iraqi government says will take against the independence-seeking region in the wake of a […]