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France’s turbulent presidential election season is finallyreaching the end game for Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Here’s what you need to know to get you to the final vote on Sunday, and a little beyond. Thursday and Friday After Wednesday night’s raucous debate, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have just two days left […]

Daraa, SANA- An army unit targeted Jabhat al-Nusra-linked terrorist groups in Daraa al-Balad area in Daraa southern province. A military source told SANA Thursday that the army killed and injured a number of terrorists in al-Sadd road neighborhood and northwest of the old Customs and destroyed their fortifications and machinegun nests southeast of al-Khazan and […]

The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation on Thursday to repeal major portions of Obamacare and replace it with a Republican healthcare plan, handing a major legislative victory to President Donald Trump. By a vote of 217-213, Republicans obtained just enough votes to push the legislation through the House, sending it to the Senate […]

 A German network of leading science institutes will begin identifying thousands of brain specimens belonging to people killed by the Nazis because they suffered from a disability or were ill. The three-year-long research project into the specimens in the Max Planck institutes’ possession will begin in June, and aims to build a database listing the […]

North Korea confirmed the detention of the American citizen for the first time Pyongyang has blamed the man for acts of hostility aimed at overthrowing the country While House official has said North Korea could use nuclear weapons as blackmail WASHINGTON, U.S. – In a first of such acknowledgements, North Korea has confirmed the detention […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State leader and seven others were killed during battles in the northwest of Mosul, according to Federal Police. “Troops resumed its advance in the northwest of Mosul to reach the bank of the river [Tigris] and besiege al-Jisr al-Khamis region, north of the Old City,” Lt.Gen. Shaker Jawdat said in statements […]

FBI Director JamesComey said during Senate hearings that Russia was the largest threat on Earth, especially for the American democracy. NBC News journalist Bradd Jaffy posted a part of the unprecedented statement on Twitter. “Certainly, in my view, [Russia] the greatest threat of any nation on Earth, given their intention and their capability,” Comey, the […]

Abbas Abdullahi, public works and reconstruction minister, dies after bodyguards for auditor general shoot at his car.  Bodyguards for Somalia’s auditor general shot dead a government minister in an apparent accident near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, police said. Auditor general Nur Farah’s bodyguards opened fire on a car carrying Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, […]

Relations between Turkey and Russia have been fully restored, President Vladimir Putin said in a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Sochi Wednesday. Holding talks at the Russian president’s residence in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, the two leaders discussed the latest developments on bilatereal relations, particularly the Syrian crisis. Russian President […]

An American professor arrested in North Korea as he tried to leave the country last month is being held for “committing criminal acts of hostility” aimed at overturning the hermit kingdom, the state-run KCNA news agency claimed. Kim Sang-duk was detained at Pyongyang airport on 22 April. He is reportedly “under detention by a relevant […]