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A girl holds a poster with a photo of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi during a protest [Lefteris Pitarakis/AP] US President Donald Trump expressed concern about the fate of prominent Saudi journalist and regime critic Jamal Khashoggi, who vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. “I am concerned. I don’t like hearing about it. Hopefully, […]

Matteo Salvini (L) meets Edouard Philippe in Lyon. Photo: Jeff Pachoud/AFP French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe urged Italian leader Matteo Salvini on Monday to drop his “posturing” on immigration and help find a European response to the issue. Salvini, Italy’s powerful interior minister and deputy premier, has singled out French President Emmanuel Macron for criticism […]

© Omar Marques / Global Look Press Google is closing the Google+ social network after an error exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users last spring, in an incident which the company never disclosed to those affected. Google put the “final nail in the coffin” of the Google+ product by shutting down “all consumer […]

In this Jan. 29, 2011, file photo, Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks on his cellphone at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (AP Photo) Prominent critic of Saudi Arabia and its leadership, Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi disappeared at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday and is now presumed dead by several […]

Protesters gather in front of the Supreme Court holding signs with the image of Judge Brett Kavanaugh that read “Kava Nope” and “We Believe Christine Blasey Ford” on Cap President Donald Trump has historically low favorability among women, with the Pew Research Center now reporting that 63 percent of women disapprove of how he is doing his job—compared […]

Russian S-400 Triumph medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems [Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters] The Vostok-2018 war games in eastern Siberia last month marked Russia’s biggest military exercise in more than 30 years, with about 300,000 Russian, Chinese and Mongolian troops taking part. More than just an exercise, the war games were a public relations opportunity to showcase military hardware, […]

People rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa wait to board a plane in February 2015. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini threatened on Sunday to shut the country’s airports after media reported that Germany planned to send charter flights of rejected asylum-seekers to Italy. “If someone in Berlin or Brussels thinks of […]

The two leading vote-getters on Sunday, right-winger Jair Bolsonaro will face leftist Fernando Haddad in a deciding runoff on October 28th, photo internet reproduction. RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s divisive 2018 presidential election will go to a deciding second round after controversial far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won an emphatic victory in the first round […]

Military reinforcement units of the Arab Coalition arrived at a number of military fronts in the west coast of the port city of Hodeidah on Sunday to strengthen the presence of legitimate government in Yemen. Military sources confirmed that a unit of Sudanese forces operating in Yemen under the Ccoalition command was deployed in the […]

yo_co – stock.adobe.com Twenty people are dead, state police confirmed, after a crash that reportedly involved a wedding limousine in upstate New York. Local officials told the Times Union of Albany that a limo speeding down a hill hit bystanders Saturday afternoon at the Apple Barrel Country Store in Schoharie, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) north of […]