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Police in Hamburg have confirmed the arrest of a man on suspicion of killing at least one person and injuring four others in a supermarket in the city on Friday. Die Welt reports that the man entered the shop in the Barmbek district shortly after 3pm and attacked people at random with a knife, killing […]

 THEIR imprisonment has torn families apart while the newspaper they work for is left without some of its brightest stars. But the relatives and colleagues of jailed journalists from the Turkish opposition daily Cumhuriyet vow to continue to fight for their freedom and ideals. “For nine months we have been living a nightmare, to be […]

A “flying body considered to be a missile” has been launched, Japanese officials said, adding that they are currently collecting information for further analysis. There is a possibility the missile could have landed in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Japan, in the Sea of Japan, NHK reported citing the country’s Defense Ministry. The possible […]

“The suiciders sneaked into al-Baghdadi through the desert, four of them were killed, while a fifth one blew himself up inside a house, killing a whole family of six, two parents and four children,” Mohammadi stated. Government and tribal forces have occasionally repelled attacks by suicide bombers in Baghdadi ad Doulab regions, with the encounters […]

The operator of Sweden’s biggest airport has told The Local about how a man and his mother lived in one of their terminals for a month after having their asylum applications rejected. Andrey, 24, and his mother left Turkmenistan ten years ago out of fear of the repressive regime. When crossing their home country’s border, […]

Supreme Court ruling follows months of hearings over Nawaz Sharif’s alleged corruption revealed in ‘Panama Papers’ leak. Islamabad, Pakistan– Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stepped down after the Supreme Court disqualified him from office as leader of the country’s government. Friday’s landmark ruling comes after months of hearings in a case instigated by the […]

Raqqa (Syria News) The Syrian Democratic Forces managed to recapture several neighborhoods and security points, belonging to the Islamic State group, since the beginning of the “Wrath of the Euphrates” military operation in the city last June. The spokesperson of the “Wrath of the Euphrates” Operation Command, Jihan sheikh Ahmad, said in a press statement, […]

French politicians will no longer be able to hand out jobs to family members, after a parliamentary vote. Employing ‘immediate family members’ will be punishable by fines of €45,000 and up to three years in prison under the new law. That means no hiring of spouses, children, or parents. And politicians who wish to employ […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed a bill ratifying a protocol to the 2015 agreement between Moscow and Damascus regulating the deployment of the Russian Air Force in Syria for 49 years. The protocol signed by Russia and Syria in January 2017 regulates issues related to the deployment of the Russian Air Force on Syrian […]

Are bosses going too far when they use spy software to track employees’ every keystroke? Apparently yes, according to a ruling by Germany’s highest labour court on Thursday. The Federal Labour Court ruled on Thursday that evidence collected by a company through keystroke-tracking software could not be used to fire an employee, explaining that such surveillance violates […]