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The woman whose sexual assault allegation threatens to bring down President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee has agreed to testify in the Senate, her lawyers said Saturday according to US media. Christine Blasey Ford’s decision came after days of negotiations and following President Donald Trump‘s turn against her, saying her accusation could not be true. © […]

  Paramedics could be seen helping someone in military fatigues laying on the ground. (Photo courtesy: ISN  At least 29 people, including 12 Iranian Revolutionary Guards, were killed and 60 others injured in a shooting claimed by ISIS during a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahwaz on Saturday, state television reported. “Shooting […]

Russian communists take part in a protest rally against government’s proposed pension reform plan in Moscow, Russia, 22 September 2018. (EPA Photo) Thousands rallied across Russia on Saturday to protest the government’s plan to raise the eligibility age for retirement pensions by five years. Several thousand people attended a Moscow rally organized by the Communist […]

The parade was organised to mark the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war [Behrad Ghasemi/ISNA/AFP] Four gunmen dressed in fatigues opened fire at a military parade in southwestern Iran, killing at least 29 people including women and children. The brazen attack on Saturday in the city of Ahvaz came as the country marked the anniversary of […]

Rod Rosenstein and his allies furiously pushed back Friday against a bombshell New York Times report that the deputy attorney general considered wearing a wire to record President Donald Trump during a tumultuous period last year after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. According to the report, Rosenstein was upset when Trump used a memo he’d […]

© AFP | Algerian loyalists (or Harkis) disembarking from a marine vessel in Marseille in June 1962 after leaving Algeria.  French President Emmanuel Macron announced honours on Friday for Algerians who fought alongside French troops in Algeria’s war of independence, part of fresh moves to confront France’s painful legacy in North Africa. Macron is to grant […]

Yoruk Isik / Reuters The Russian Navy has dispatched the biggest task force to the Mediterranean Sea since the start of Russia’s intervention in the Syrian conflict in anticipation of what Moscow says is a possible U.S. strike on regime forces. The U.S. warned Russia last week that it was ready to take military action […]

China has protested over the US’ “unreasonable” decision to slap punitive sanctions on a Chinese military unit for buying Russian fighter jets and surface-to-air missile equipment. “China expressed strong indignation towards the unreasonable move by the United States, and has made solemn representation,” foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Friday. “The US has seriously […]

President Donald Trump had not explicitly criticized Christine Blasey Ford, Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, before Thursday night. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday night questioned why “somebody” did not contact the FBI 36 years ago when Christine Blasey Ford alleges she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh, now a Supreme Court nominee. “You […]

Rescue workers at the scene where a ferry overturned in Lake Victoria, Tanzania [Reuters] Tanzanian rescue workers have resumed the search for survivors feared drowned after a passenger ferry capsized in the south of Lake Victoria killing nearly 100 people. Dozens of bodies were recovered on Friday morning when the rescue operation resumed at the crack […]