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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday softened for the first time her opposition to gay marriage, as her conservative party comes under growing pressure on the issue ahead of elections in September. Merkel, who had repeatedly voiced her opposition to gay marriage, said that lawmakers could vote according to their conscience, and not toe the […]

LONDON: The World Health Organization (WHO) has thanked Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, deputy prime minister and minister of defense, for his donation of $66.7 million to stop the spread of cholera in Yemen. In response to an urgent call for funding, the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSRelief) in Saudi […]

BEIJING – The United States urged China on Tuesday to give cancer-stricken Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife freedom to move and choose his own doctors after he was granted medical parole. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said it was “working to gather more information” about Liu’s legal and medical status after […]

A Russian submarine has successfully launched a missile from the Barents Sea near Norway to a test site in the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. “The strategic Borey-class nuclear submarine, Yuri Dolgoruky, has successfully fired the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from a designated area in the Barents Sea […]

Johan Gustafsson, a Swede who was kidnapped in Mali more than five years ago, has been released. “It is with great pleasure that I can announce that Johan Gustafsson has been released and can return to Sweden. Johan’s situation has touched many of us and extensive efforts have been made to get him released,” said […]

Image captionThe original ban in January provoked mass protests at American airports US President Donald Trump has welcomed a Supreme Court ruling allowing his travel ban to be partly reinstated as a “victory for our national security”. America’s highest court also granted a White House request allowing part of its refugee ban to go into […]

Warmbier ‘typical of a mindset of a lot of the young, white, rich, clueless males who come into my classes,’ Dettwyler had posted A University of Delaware professor who caused outrage on social media and elsewhere by criticizing U.S. college student Otto Warmbier—who died after being held prisoner Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student […]

The New York Times used a full page in this week’s paper to print out every lie President Donald Trump has publicly told since taking office just over five months ago. The list contains Trump’s contradictions on a slew of topics, like the Iraq War, NATO, the administration’s controversial travel ban, the crowd size at […]

A US warship struck by a Philippines container ship in Japanese waters failed to respond to warning signals or take action before the collision took place, according to a report from the The Philippines ship ACX Crystal signaled to the USS Fitzgerald with flashing lights after the US warship The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces took over a major area in western Mosul’s Old City on Monday, hours after the Islamic State militants launched a series of suicide attacks. The Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said the army’s Counter-Terrorism Service forces took over a first section of al-Farouq, the closest area to the Grand Nuri […]