Islamic State has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria’s southern province of Sweida last month, a Syrian news website and a monitor said yesterday. ISIS killed the 19-year-old male student on Thursday after kidnapping more than 30 people, mostly women and children, from a village in ... Read More »
Tsunami warning issued after tremors shake popular tourist destination At least 91 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Lombok, near Bali. The earthquake, which hit early on Sunday evening, prompted local authorities to issue a tsunami warning although the alert was later lifted. Authorities ... Read More »
Venezuelan officials on Sunday gave a more detailed description of the two drone bombs used in an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro, saying that each craft carried about 2 pounds of plastic explosive and that the plot was foiled, in part, by equipment designed to jam radio signals. Six ... Read More »
Circulation of petition follows tried and tested model for government goals seeming to have grassroots support A petition demanding that Egypt’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, remain in power beyond his two-term limit is circulating within Egyptian institutions and among pro-state figures. A photograph of the petition was provided to the ... Read More »
Trump administration reportedly considering additional tariffs on $200bn worth of Chinese goods China has accused the US of “blackmail” as the Trump administration considers more than doubling its proposed tariffs on Chinese goods amid an escalating trade war. President Donald Trump is reportedly considering upping his proposed tariffs on $200bn ... Read More »
Appeal comes as Emmanuel Macron invites the prime minister to urgent talks at his holiday retreat Jeremy Hunt has called on France and Germany to intervene to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU with no deal, insisting Theresa May will not “blink”. The foreign secretary appealed to the ... Read More »
Photos and infrared imaging indicate vehicles moving in and out of the facility at Sanumdong North Korea has pressed ahead with construction at the factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US, despite ongoing negotiations over the fate of its nuclear and missile programs. ... Read More »
Government claims that hundreds of thousands of people illegally entered country from neighbouring Bangladesh since 1971 India has effectively stripped 4 million people from the state of Assam of their citizenship. The state has a National Register of Citizens (NRC), which includes the names of all those who can prove ... Read More »
The statements come after Mr Trump exchanged hostile warnings with Iranian leadership earlier this month President Donald Trump has said that he would meet with the leaders of Iran without preconditions “whenever they want”. “I would certainly meet with Iran if they wanted to meet,” Mr Trump said during an ... Read More »
-President and Sulzberger each say other is damaging America -Rhetoric also criticized by Washington Post’s Marty Baron Hours after saying he had a “very good meeting” with the publisher of the New York Times about his labelling the press the “enemy of the people”, Donald Trump launched a blistering attack ... Read More »
Lebanese Ministry of Information