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The men attempted to place a bomb on an Etihad flight out of Sydney last month in a plot directed by ISIL, say police. After the bid failed, the men changed tactics and were in the early stages of devising a chemical dispersion device, said police [File: David Gray/Reuters] Two men facing terrorism charges in Australia were […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China in September for a summit of BRICS leaders [File AP] Beijing demands New Delhi must ‘immediately withdraw troops’ from disputed border amid Donglang stand-off. China says India has been building up troops along its side of the border and demands an “immediate withdrawal” amid an increasingly tense […]

© David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters The US military is shifting towards a “more global” exercise program in preparation to deter what they term a “more assertive Russia” as well as countering other complex threats, a senior officer commanding the US forces in Europe has said. TrendsRussia-NATO relations “What we’re eventually going toward is a globally […]

© Kim Won-Jin, AFP | North Korean state TV shows footage of the intercontinental ballistic missile launched on The French airline has said it is expanding its “non-flyover area around North Korea” while denying that passengers were at risk last week when one of its jets flew past the location where a North Korean missile […]

  Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi (Photo by IRNA) Iran has condemned fresh sanctions imposed by the US on the Islamic Republic, stressing that Tehran will not stand silent in the face of Washington’s violation of the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump signed into law the bill that targets Iran with […]

© Natalia Seliverstova / Sputnik   The Russian foreign ministry says the US is “sliding deeper” into a Cold War paradigm that is “totally detached from reality,” while warning Washington to “stop demonizing Russia and it foreign policy.” “On August 2, the US Vice President [Mike] Pence once again made a series of anti-Russian statements […]

Female Islamic State members (representational photo). Female Islamic State members (representational photo). Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) A notorious mother of three Islamic State militants died Thursday when her house partially collapsed west of Nineveh, a local source was quoted saying. Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that “Um Daesh” (mother of the Islamic State) died under […]

Chancellor candidate Martin Schulz Martin Schulz, the rival who wants to unseat Angela Merkel as chancellor in September, made headlines before the election with his criticism of Donald Trump. In an interview with DER SPIEGEL he now describes the U.S. president as a “risk to the whole world” and expresses shock over his “merciless nepotism.” The […]