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Iraqi authorities exhume a mass grave in Tikrit. Mosul (IraqiNews.com) More than 2,000 bodies of civilians were recovered since liberation of Mosul city, an Iraqi officer said on Friday. “Rescue teams of Nineveh’s civil defense department have recovered more than 2,100 bodies of civilians from under the destroyed houses in the western side of Mosul, […]

  File photo of a cell in a Rome jail. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP The Council of Europe criticized Italy on Friday for overcrowding in the country’s jails. The Council’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) said that many of Italy’s prisons were “still operating above capacity”, and denounced multiple cases of ill treatment. Prisoners […]

Another UN official says more than 1,000 people, mostly Rohingya Muslims, may have been killed. More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar, according to a UN official [Suzauddin Rubel/AFP/Getty Images] The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh in the last two weeks to escape the violence in Myanmar has shot up to about 270,000, a spokeswoman […]

The most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in a century struck off the country’s southern coast early Friday, killing at least 26 people and prompting warnings it could trigger tsunami waves up to 10 feet high. The quake just before 1 a.m. ET was stronger than the 1985 tremor that killed more than 5,000 people […]

FILE PHOTO Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) © Issei Kato / Reuters For the second time in its history, Japan has carried out a series of anti-missile drills at a US airbase in the northern Tohoku region, as tensions mount with North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons program. A crew of thirty set up a Patriot […]

The North Korean ambassador and President Peña Nieto when relations were more cordial. Mexico has expelled the North Korean ambassador in response to that country’s recent nuclear tests. The government declared in a statement that ambassador Kim Hyong Gil was persona non grata and gave him 72 hours to leave the country. It said the […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump © Reuters Russian president Vladimir Putin has not been invited to a meeting on reforming the United Nations, reportedly set to be hosted by Donald Trump and due to take place ahead of the General Assembly in New York, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said. “As far […]

First Lady Emine Erdoğan arrives in Bangladesh to visit Rohingya refugee camp in Cox Bazaar (AA Photo) Turkey’s first lady Emine Erdoğan and a delegation including Turkish politicians and heads of Turkish aid agencies arrived in Bangladesh Thursday to visit a refugee camp hosting Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The first lady […]

The head of the Forza Nuova party, Roberto Fiore (pictured speaking in 2015), denies any fascist element to the march. Photo: AFP Italian politicians have called for the Interior Ministry to ban a march called by a far-right party on the anniversary of dictator Benito Mussolini’s rise to power. The extreme-right Forza Nuova party has called for […]

 Anti-narcotics officers seized homing pigeons trained for delivering drugs carried in small blue plastic bags attached to their legs, the Irna state news agency reported. According to Irna, the use of birds to transport recreational substances is unprecedented. A young population and an abundance of cheap, addictive substances, many coming over the border from Afghanistan, […]