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TEHRAN – In remarks aired late on Sunday the Iranian defense minister lashed back at belligerent remarks by the Saudi crown prince, saying Iran will raze up the Saudi kingdom if it does anything “ignorant”. “If the Saudis do anything ignorant, we will leave no area untouched except Mecca and Medina,” Hossein Dehqan said after […]

WorldRemit uses mobile money to make inroads in remittances Biggest challenge is keeping digital cash away from terrorists Refugee, economist, whistle-blower, entrepreneur — Ismail Ahmed has played many roles in his odyssey from war-torn Somalia to London’s fintech frontier. But one event stands out: In February 2010, he used a $200,000 settlement from the United Nations […]

The meeting came amid fresh warnings and accusations from Pyongyang against US President Donald Trump’s administration.A meeting between a North Korean government delegation and US political experts reportedly took place in Norway on Monday (8 May) with another round of talks scheduled for Tuesday. The meeting comes days after US President Donald Trump announced his […]

As part of its anti-terror measures, Turkey has decided to erect a wall along its border with Iran to, stop the cross-border mobility of PKK terrorists. Turkey has also built a 900-kilometer wall along its Syrian border which has been effective against Daesh and PKK terrorists crossing into Turkey Turkey is preparing to build a […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited former head of the KGB intelligence group in Dresden Lazar Matveev (L). © Aleksey Nikolskyi / Sputnik Russian President Vladimir Putin and his former KGB colleagues visited an ex-East Germany station chief to wish their former boss well on his 90th birthday.Putin was joined by Sergey Chemezov and Nikolay Tokarev, […]

At least five killed, 20 wounded after huge car bomb goes off near the immigration directorate in the capital.  Mogadishu, Somalia – A car-bomb blast hit the heart of Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 20 others, police said. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility in a statement on its website. Mostaf Abdi Abshir, a […]

With South Korea’s presidential election just one day away, North Korea on Monday called for an end to the history of inter-Korean confrontation. “The tragic North-South Korea relations today have been wrought by the conservative groups which, having been in power for the past 10 years, revived the foregone period of confrontation and maximized the […]

Iran says the number of tourists that visited the country last year increased by above 30 percent from a year earlier – what could be an indication that one of the world’s top travel destinations is already finding its lost flavor after the removal of sanctions. A top trade official in Tehran told the domestic […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, preliminary results showed, giving a boost to her bid to retain power in national elections in September. Voters in the small, northern state of Schleswig-Holstein handed her CDU party about 32 percent, leaving the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) trailing […]

A 32-year-old Indian-American doctor has been shot dead under mysterious circumstances in a car in the US state of Michigan. Ramesh Kumar, who worked in the Urology Department of the Henry Ford Hospital, was found dead on the passenger seat of a car in a rest area, some 90 miles out of Detroit, on late […]