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Scathing broadside against German chancellor came hours after EU urged Turkish president to halt inflammatory rhetoric.   Chancellor Angela Merkel said she’s unwilling to play Erdogan’s ‘game’ [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters] Turkey’s president continued his rhetorical attacks on European leaders on Monday by accusing German Chancellor Angela Merkel of “supporting terrorists”. Merkel called the accusations “clearly […]

Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg (L) and other ministers and party members vote during Høyre’s annual conference. Photo: Terje Pedersen/NTB scanpixNorway’s Høyre (Conservative) Party, the largest party in the governing coalition, voted at its annual conference in favour of a proposal to allow dual citizenship in the country. The proposal, made by the party’s youth […]

Muslim man granted asylum working to win approval for wife and daughter to leave Aleppo and join him in US A Wisconsin court has blocked the Trump administration from stopping a mother and daughter in Aleppo from trying to get to the US. Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images A federal judge on Friday blocked Donald Trump’s […]

Rescuers carry away a man who was wounded in a car bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, March 13, 2017. A suicide car bomber detonated near a hotel in Somalia’s capital Monday morning, killing at least six people and injuring four others, police said. The bomber detonated near the Weheliye hotel on the busy Maka Almukarramah […]

The UN is urging the international community to take action to save people in East Africa from “starving to death” Internally displaced Somali people near Mogadishu, March 11, 2017 — REUTERS The al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab is taking advantage of Somalia’s hunger crisis to improve its image and bolster support, even as it has been blamed for destabilizing the African […]

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern. Photo: John Thys/AFP Turkish politicians should be banned from political campaigning across the European Union, Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said Sunday. “A collective EU response to prevent such campaign events would make sense so that individual countries like Germany where appearances are forbidden don’t end up being pressured by Turkey,” Kern […]

King Salman, centre, arrives at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. The Saudi king is on a month-long Asian tour to advance Riyadh’s economic and business interests. Shizuo Kambayashi / AP Photo TOKYO // King Salman and hundreds of business leaders from Saudi Arabia are in Japan for talks on Monday mainly expected to focus on […]

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State fighters remaining in Mosul after U.S. coalition-backed Iraqi forces besieged the city will face death, according to a senior envoy for the international coalition fighting the extremist group in Iraq and Syria. “ISIS is trapped. … Any of the fighters left in Mosul, they’re going to die there,” Brett McGurk said […]

Prime minister Mark Rutte on WNL on Sunday. Photo: WNL screen shot Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte on Sunday described actions of the Turkish government in sending a minister to Rotterdam despite being told she was not welcome as ‘extraordinary’. Minister for the family Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya was stopped from entering the consulate in […]

Japan provided Malaysia with fingerprint data for Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, needed for the investigation into his murder last month at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, sources close to the matter said Sunday. The data was obtained when the Japanese immigration officials detained him in 2001 at […]