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Prominent Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is seen in Iran, in this undated photo [File: Official Khamenei Website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout/Reuters] Prominent Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is seen in Iran, in this undated photo [File: Official Khamenei Website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout/Reuters] A high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in an ambush near […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia The al-Shabaab militant group on Saturday claimed responsibility for last night’s suicide bombing in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. At least eight people were killed in the Friday evening blast at a popular ice-cream parlor frequented by foreigners and government officials. The group, through its allied propaganda media stations in Somalia, claimed the attack was […]

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AFP) US President Donald Trump retweeted a post by an Israeli journalist, who is an expert on the Israeli Mossad intelligence service, about the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist […]

MForeign Minister Çavuşoğlu (L) and his Saudi counterpart Farhan bin Abdullah Al Saud meet on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers in Niger’s Niamey, Nov. 27, 2020 (IHA Photo)  Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Friday that he held a “sincere” meeting with his Saudi counterpart in […]

A member of the Amhara Special Forces at the 5th Battalion of the Ethiopian Army’s Northern Command in Dansha, November 25, 2020. AFP – EDUARDO SOTERAS Ethiopia’s army entered the capital of the Tigray region on Saturday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced, as the city of half a million people braced for an all-out offensive by […]

Ethiopian refugees who fled the Tigray conflict build temporary huts at Um Raquba camp in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref province on Nov. 28, 2020.ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The Ethiopian military on Saturday began an offensive in the Tigray regional capital in its quest to arrest the region’s defiant leaders. Tigray TV announced the shelling midday in Mekele, […]

It is ‘unrealistic’ for areas in tiers two and three to be put into tier one before spring, reports claim (Picture: PA/Getty) Most people in England will be banned from seeing family and friends from other households indoors until Easter, according to reports. Senior Government sources told the Daily Mail it was ‘unrealistic’ to expect […]

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani has said Israel was behind the assassination of Iran’s prominent scientist. “Once again, the evil hands of global arrogance and their Zionist mercenaries, were stained with the blood of another Iranian, causing deep grief across the nation for losing a hard-working scientist,” Rouhani said in a message on Saturday. Undoubtedly, […]

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden declared Tuesday that the United States is “ready to lead the world, not retreat from it,” signaling a sharp pivot from outgoing President Donald Trump’s “America First” credo over the last four years. As he prepares to assume office on January 20, Biden said the country is “ready to confront […]

© Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS ANKARA, November 27. /TASS/. Ankara continues talks with Moscow for purchasing a coronavirus vaccine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters on Friday. “We are in talks for purchasing the vaccine. I have discussed it with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, while our health minister has held talks […]