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A wide view of the Security Council Chamber as Michael Keating (left on screen), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), briefs the Council via video link. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe 13 September 2017 – Highlighting complex immediate and long-term challenges in Somalia, the head of the United […]

Media captionFlorida nursing home survivors evacuated Six people at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma have died. Police evacuated 115 residents on Wednesday from the facility, whose air conditioning was cut by the storm. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said three were found dead at the nursing […]

Would-be immigrants atop a border fence separating Morocco from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla. Photo: AFP The number of migrants arriving in Spain so far this year has soared more than 88 percent from the same period in 2016, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said on Tuesday. Speaking in a parliamentary commission on […]

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14. KCNA / Reuters   A radioactive gas, xenon-133, has been detected from the recent North Korean nuclear test, the South’s nuclear watchdog said, adding that it is still unclear whether it was from a hydrogen bomb test as Pyongyang claimed. Read […]

School students with their mobiles. AFP French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has touched off a public debate about banning phones in schools as he seeks to implement a campaign pledge by President Emmanuel Macron. In an interview with Express magazine, the minister suggested that pupils might be asked to deposit their phones in secure boxes […]

Deir Ezzor/Homs, SANA – Syrian Arab Army units continued operations to secure the perimeter of Deir Ezzor Military Airport and Regiment 137, in conjunction with concentrated operations to eliminate ISIS terrorists form the province’s southeastern countryside. SANA’s correspondent said that an army unit that established control over al-Thurda Mountains and met with the Airport’s garrison a few days […]

Myanmar leader faces mounting criticism globally over ethnic cleansing campaign targeting country’s Rohingya Muslims Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not attend the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York. A spokesperson for her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), told Reuters news agency late on Tuesday that the Nobel Peace Prize […]

© Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation Russia is preparing to send more than 4,000 tons of materials and over 40 pieces of construction equipment to Syria to help the war-torn country in its multibillion-dollar reconstruction effort. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria, Syria war The shipment of industrial aid that is currently being readied for […]

Moskva News Agency Dozens of buildings including schools and malls in more than 12 Russian cities have been evacuated since Sunday after authorities received a series of anonymous bomb threats, the Interfax news agency reports. Interfax cited a law enforcement official in Chelyabinsk as saying that the evacuations were prompted by bomb scares across cities in Russia. “There’s reason […]

The presidential office said Tuesday it supports the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) adoption of a new resolution for tougher sanctions on North Korea for its sixth nuclear test. It demanded the Kim Jong-un regime stop further provocations and come to negotiations. “We highly evaluate the UNSC’s prompt and unanimous adoption of Resolution 2375 today,” […]