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Spontaneous protests broke out on the streets of Barcelona. All photos: AFP Thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona on Wednesday as Spanish police detained 13 Catalan government officials in a crackdown ahead of an independence referendum deemed illegal by Madrid. With tensions mounting, separatist organisations called for more people to protest as leaders […]

© Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik Russian troops have started to routinely return to their home bases after the end of the joint Russia-Belarus Zapad 2017 exercises that earlier provoked large-scale hysteria in the West over their nature, numbers and purpose. Units of the Russian Air Force were first to set off for home following the […]

File photo of apartment keys. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT A Swedish municipality has hit back after it was criticized for offering a man and his three wives housing in apartments bought for more than 13.9 million kronor ($1.75 million) in total. Nacka municipality hit back at claims spread by the local branch of the anti-immigration Sweden […]

A member of the Iraqi Army’s 9th Armoured Division walks among debris at the yard of a destroyed building at the frontline in western Mosul, Iraq June 17, 2017. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis Annah (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Army/ Iraqi forces invaded on Wednesday the first of three Islamic State bastions in western Anbar and near the borders with […]

President Moon Jae-in is drumming up international support for Seoul’s efforts to seek a peaceful solution to the North Korea nuclear issue through a series of summits with foreign leaders in New York City.Moon had talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Czech President Milos Zeman and Senegalese President Macky Sall on the sidelines of […]

The Somali ostrich, Struthio molybdophanes, is listed as “vulnerable” by IUCN.WIKIMEDIA, DONNA BROWN Species within the “Goldilocks zone”—neither too big nor too small—have the lowest risk of extinction, while very large and very small animals are at greatest risk, according to a study published yesterday (September 18) in PNAS. “Surprisingly, we found that not only the largest of all […]

Photo: AFP French authorities evacuated hundreds of migrants from a wood on the northern coast near Calais on Tuesday over fears it could become a magnet for others hoping to head to Britain. Some 350 men, women and children, most of them Iraqi Kurds, had been living for weeks in squalid conditions in the wood […]

26 jewellery showrooms raided; jewelleries were inscribed with the fake international trademarks Image Credit: Abu Dhabi Police Some of the counterfeit gold jewellery pieces seized during raids on showrooms in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Police confiscated 27 kilogram of counterfeit gold jewellery in the local market here involving 26 gold jewellery showrooms. The […]

Rohingya Muslums sit in a temporary refugee camp after losing their homes during the violence in the Rakhine state. Speaking during the United Nations General Assembly in New York late Tuesday, world leaders condemned Myanmar’s oppression and violence against its Muslim minority. Regarding the violence and oppression against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, President Recep Tayyip […]