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FSB / TASS The Kremlin on Friday rebuffed a U.S. call to release Ukrainian ships and sailors, saying it could not take precedence over Russia’s justice system, but added that Moscow remained interested in a top-level meeting with the United States. Washington said on Thursday that a meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin […]

Swedish Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party leader Stefan Lofven | Henrik Montgomery/AFP via Getty Images   Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Löfven, lost a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday after the far-right Sweden Democrats backed the center-right Alliance’s bid to oust the Social Democrats. Löfven’s defeat in the vote, in which 204 MPs voted against him versus […]

Senator Bob Corker speaks to reporters before a series of votes on legislation ending US military support for the war in Yemen [Joshua Roberts/Reuters] Washington, DC – The US Senate voted on Thursday to approve a resolution calling for an end to United States involvement in the Saudi-UAE-led military campaign in Yemen, setting the stage for a potential showdown […]

Rashida Tlaib (R) and Ilhan Omar (L) became the first Middle Eastern women to be elected to Congress during the US mid-terms on 6 November, 2018 [Facebook] The American magazine Foreign Policy reported that since the beginning of the mid-term elections in the United States, conservative media outlets have fiercely targeted Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who wears hijab, in […]

Dr. Stephen Linton, the founder and chief of the Eugene Bell Foundation, tells tuberculosis (TB) patients how to collect sputum samples, during the organization’s three-week visit to North Korea from Oct. 16 to Nov. 6. Courtesy of the Eugene Bell Foundation It is time for the two Koreas to permit private sector exchanges so personal […]

DHA Photo A high-speed train hit a railway engine and crashed into a pedestrian overpass at a station in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring 47 others, including three in critical condition, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan said. The train was en route from Ankara to the central […]

Mark Wilson/Getty Images   President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that there would be chaos across the country if he were impeached. “I’m not concerned, no,” the president told Reuters reporters about his potential impeachment during an interview in the Oval Office. “I think that the people would revolt if that happened.” Trump brushed aside […]

Photo: AFP Hundreds of security forces were Wednesday deployed in the hunt for a lone gunman who killed three people and wounded a dozen others at the famed Christmas market in Strasbourg. LATEST INFO: Death toll revised back up to three from two, plus 13 injured Shooter still at large, over 600 officers and soldiers […]

He was put in a police van and driven away, witnesses said. The suspect was bundled to the cobbles of New Palace Yard, not far from where Westminster terror attack Khalid Masood murdered PC Keith Palmer last year. The incident, which is not currently being treated as terror-related, will raise further questions about security around the […]

The UK is due to leave the EU on March 29, 2019, almost three years after it voted to leave the bloc [File: Getty Images] The European Union‘s top court has ruled that Britain may unilaterally reverse its decision to leave the bloc. In a judgment delivered on Monday, the European Court of Justice said the United Kingdom could revoke […]