The Daesh Takfiri terrorists have killed at least two members of Afghan security forces and inflicted injuries to nearly a dozen others, including civilians, in an ambush carried out in the eastern province of Nangarhar, officials say. The terror attack began on Saturday when a rocket, suspected to be a ...
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EU charts path separate from US on Iran
With the Trump administration bent on tweaking a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, European states are charting a course on Tehran which diverges from that of Washington. British Prime Minister Theresa May was the last of the European leaders, who affirmed commitment to the Iranian nuclear deal this week. “We ...
Read More »Hungary PM says Soros aims to meddle in elections
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban says that US billionaire George Soros intends to meddle in the country’s elections next year through his network of NGOs, vowing to use all means necessary to foil the alleged scheme. Orban made the remarks during a Friday interview with the local Kossuth radio in ...
Read More »Venezuelan government, opposition resume crisis talks in Dominican
Representatives of the Venezuelan government and opposition coalition have begun a new round of talks aimed at resolving the country’s political and economic crises. President Nicolas Maduro’s leftist government held preliminary meetings in the Dominican Republic on Friday, with foreign ministers from Latin American countries acting as mediators in the ...
Read More »Anti-Trump rally at US embassy in London over anti-Muslim videos
UK protesters have gathered outside the US embassy in London to denounce US President Donald Trump’s recent move to re-tweet anti-Muslim videos of a British far-right leader. The group of around 40 demonstrators gathered outside the building at Grosvener Square on Friday evening, warning Trump to “stay away” from the ...
Read More »Death toll from cyclone in India, Sri Lanka hits 26
Thousands took to relief camps in Sri Lanka and southern India on Saturday to escape rising floodwaters after a cyclone killed at least 26 people. Cyclone Ockhi has left 13 people dead in Sri Lanka and killed an equal number in India’s Kerala and Tamil Nadu states since Friday as ...
Read More »In Bangladesh, Pope Francis calls Myanmarese Rohingya Muslims by ethnic name
In an encounter with Myanmarese Muslim refugees in Bangladesh, Pope Francis breaks his silence and addresses them by their historical name Rohingya for the first time during his trip, begging forgiveness for all the sufferings the persecuted minority group has gone through. On the last leg of his Asian tour, ...
Read More »US Senate approves major tax overhaul, despite deficit warnings
The US Senate in Congress has approved a sweeping tax overhaul that will offer huge tax cuts for US corporations and the wealthiest Americans and likely increase the budget deficit by $1 trillion in a decade. The upper chamber of Congress voted 51 to 49 on Saturday in favor of ...
Read More »More protests held in Bahrain
New protests have been held in Bahrain against the ruling monarchy’s oppressive policies, especially its ill-treatment of a prominent Shia cleric. Protests were held in the village of Sanabis on the outskirts of the capital, Manama, in the capital’s Abu Sabi’ neighborhood, the Maqsha’ District, which lies nine kilometers from ...
Read More »Two-thirds of Americans believe Iran deal serves national security: Poll
A new study shows that the majority of Americans believe that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, to which Washington is a signatory, serves their country’s national security interests. According to the poll conducted by the Washington-based Brookings Institution and published on Friday, 70 percent of the respondents agree that the deal, officially called the Joint ...
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