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Up till 14 feared dead in clashes with security forces as many voters boycott poll that President Nicolás Maduro hails as a ‘vote for peace’ The United States has vowed to take strong and swift action against the “architects of authoritarianism” in Venezuela after protesters and security forces fought deadly street battles during voting for President Nicolás […]

The Turkish foreign ministry said it protested the U.S. special envoy for Global Coalition to counter Daesh, Brett McGurk’s recent “provocative” remarks for making a connection between Turkey and the presence of terror groups in Syria’s Idlib. Turkish MFA spokesperson Hüseyin Müftüoğlu said Sunday that Turkey’s reactions were directly brought to McGurk’s attention at a […]

President Moon Jae-in is apparently shifting his policy on North Korea from appeasement toward a hawkish approach following Pyongyang’s continued launching of ballistic missiles with intercontinental range. The large-scale provocations are seen as the Kim Jong-un regime’s answer to the Moon government’s recent offer to hold military talks to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula […]

More than 750 American diplomats will have to leave Russia as a result of Washington’s own policies, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in an exclusive interview with the Rossiya 1 TV channel. “The American side has made a move which, it is important to note, hasn’t been provoked by anything, to worsen Russian-US relations. […]

omalia’s Al-Shabaab insurgents and troops from the African Union peacekeeping mission clashed on Sunday, a senior military officer said, while the group said it had killed 39 soldiers. The incident took place in Bulamareer district in Lower Shabelle region about 140 km southwest of Mogadishu. The al Shabaab fighters ambushed a convoy carrying troops from […]

Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah will delay his impending track retirement by a few days to compete at the Zurich Diamond League final, organizers said on Friday. The British five-time world champion had originally been due to bow out at home in London after next month’s world championships from August 4th-13th. Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP   […]

Ozamiz city mayor was among list of officials publicly shamed last year by President Duterte of being linked to drugs. Phillippine police have killed a city mayor, his wife and 10 others during a series of pre-dawn anti-drug raids in the south, officials said. Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of Ozamiz city, is the latest official to be […]

A gunman opened fire at a packed nightclub in southern Germany early Sunday, killing one and wounding four before being shot by police, authorities said, ruling out a terror attack. The 34-year-old man, identified as an Iraqi national, “was critically injured in a shootout with police officers as he left the disco, and later succumbed […]

Flight of bombers follows Pyongyang’s missile tests and comes as Trump derides China’s response to apparent threat. FAST FACTS US ‘ready to respond with rapid, lethal, and overwhelming force’ Japan vows to put ‘heaviest possible pressure’ on North China warns launch violates UN Security Council resolutions Trump derides Chinese response in tweets: ‘They do NOTHING […]

Twenty-six migrants, including a two-year-old, were discovered in a refrigerated lorry at a ferry terminal near the northern French port of Dunkirk on Saturday, the emergency services said. The toddler, whose Iranian mother was also in the lorry, was taken to hospital suffering from hypothermia after the migrants were found in the lorry early Saturday […]