The Syrian government Monday condemned the evacuation of hundreds of Syrian White Helmet rescue workers, calling it a “criminal operation” undertaken by “Israel and its tools”. The rescue workers and their families crossed out of Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights before arriving in Jordan over the weekend. Israel said ... Read More »
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Monday that holding early elections would create instability in the country, after almost 300 people were killed in weeks of clashes stemming from a government clampdown on protests. Nicaragua’s main business lobby and other groups have urged Ortega to bring forward the country’s next ... Read More »
North Korea is reportedly dismantling facilities at one of their key launching stations in a possible attempt to fulfill a denuclearization pact. Satellite photos taken over the past few days show the regime has started disassembling parts of its Sohae Satellite Launching Station, according to the monitoring web site 38 ... Read More »
US president issues late-night tweet in capital letters, saying Iran must ‘never, ever threaten the United States again’ Donald Trump has threatened Iran will “suffer the consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before” in a late night tweet all in capital letters that threatened to ... Read More »
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday cautioned U.S. President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying “war with Iran is the mother of all wars”, but did not rule out peace between the two countries. Iran faces increased U.S. pressure and looming sanctions after Trump’s decision to withdraw ... Read More »
Laws enacted after 2016 coup attempt are lifted but ‘climate of fear’ remains, say critics Turkey’s two-year state of emergency came to an end at midnight on Wednesday, but as trials of dissidents and journalists continue human rights campaigners have said Ankara must do more to reverse a “suffocating” crackdown ... Read More »
Iraq after Isis: In the fifth part of his latest series, Patrick Cockburn finds Iraqis are losing patience with endemic corruption “The people want an end to the parties,” chanted protesters, adapting a famous slogan of the Arab Spring, as they stormed the governor’s office and the international airport in ... Read More »
Reuters Reviving supersonic passenger flights will harm the environment as the jets will not likely be able to comply with existing fuel efficiency, pollution and noise standards for subsonic aircraft, according to a study released on Tuesday. U.S. based startups Aerion Supersonic, Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace are all aiming ... Read More »
Trump uses Fox News appearance to praise Putin as ‘very strong’, while Putin denies having compromising material on president Fresh off a controversial summit that drew widespread condemnation from America and its allies, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump struck a defiant tone in a pair of television interviews that sought ... Read More »
Rome’s hard-line anti-migrant government saw two ships blocked from docking Italy has agreed to let boats carrying rescued refugees dock in Sicily, on the condition that other countries resettle them. Rome’s hard-line anti-refugee government had kept two military ships from docking at Pozzallo until other countries came forward. Germany, Spain ... Read More »
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