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Oskar Gröning in court in 2015. Photo: DPA. A former Nazi SS guard known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, now 96, is fit to serve out his sentence, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Oskar Gröning was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people at the camp and sentenced to four […]

In a stunning revelation, U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC’s Today program, Tuesday (local time), U.S. President Donald Trump told him he was “willing to go to war with North Korea if they (North Korea) continued to try to hit America with an ICBM.” Graham said: “He’s told me that. I believe him… There […]

ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is unlikely to rejoin the cabinet under the leadership of the ‘interim’ prime minister. Other members of the cabinet are expected to take oath with the same portfolios they were holding till Friday when Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court as prime minister and his cabinet […]

US soldiers keep watch near the wreckage of their vehicle at the site of the Taliban suicide attack [AFP] A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces on Wednesday in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, officials said. “At around noon a car bomb targeted a convoy of foreign forces in Daman […]

  (Paul Herman, News24) Maimane to hand-deliver petition signed by 1 million to Ramaphosa Govt only cares about wealth of Zuma and Guptas – Maimane Maimane to deliver national petition to Ramaphosa ahead of no confidence vote Cape Town – Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has handed over a petition of over 1 million signatures […]

Berlin’s Südkreuz station. Photo: DPA. A Berlin train station on Tuesday became the first to test out software that will automatically recognize faces in an effort to fight terrorism. But not everyone sees the project as positive. Berlin’s Südkreuz station on Tuesday started the pilot project on behalf of the federal government to use surveillance […]

Two NATO jets which were intercepting Russian planes over neutral waters near Estonia briefly violated Finnish airspace, the alliance said. Two Spanish F-18 jets were scrambled on Tuesday from Estonia’s Amari Airbase to intercept Russian aircraft, identified as two MiG-31 jets and one Antonov AN-26 cargo plane, according to the military bloc. A Spanish Air […]

Christopher Wray inherits the job at a challenging time given Trump’s ousting of Comey, who was admired within the FBI. The US senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI, replacing James Comey, who was abruptly fired by US President Donald Trump amid the investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election. World […]

The United States does not seek a regime change in North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday, as tensions renewed over the country’s nuclear and missile programs. North Korea conducted its second test of an intercontinental ballistic missile last week, fueling concerns that the communist nation may be close to delivering a nuclear […]