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Sweden’s national police chief has presented a new report about the country’s problem areas, increasing the number of districts classified as vulnerable or especially vulnerable. READ ALSO: What you need to know about Sweden’s vulnerable areas     Police after a shooting in Malmö’s Rosengård district in May last year. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT The report, […]

A US district court judge in Michigan has temporarily blocked the deportations of more than 100 Iraqi nationals until a decision is reached over who has jurisdiction over the matter, according to court documents filed on Thursday. Protesters rally outside the federal court just before a hearing to consider a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf […]

Australian senator Larissa Waters won’t let anything get between her and her baby. On Thursday she moved a motion within the Federal Parliament while breastfeeding. Waters rose to put forward a motion on Black Lung disease, all the while holding and feeding her 14-week old baby Alia Joy, local media reported. The Greens senator made […]

Two Russian Navy frigates and a submarine have fired six Kalibr cruise missiles on Islamic State targets in Syria, the Defense Ministry said. Militants who survived the attack were later killed in airstrikes. The missiles were launched from Russian Navy frigates, the Admiral Essen and the Admiral Grigorovich, as well as a submarine, the Krasnodar, […]

The head of the United Nations cultural agency today deplored the destruction of historic religious architecture in Iraq’s Mosul city by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) fighters. “The Al Hadba Minaret and AlNuree Mosque in Mosul were among the most iconic sites in the city, and stood as a symbol of identity, […]

The family of the now deceased University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier kept his Jewish faith a secret so officials could negotiate his release from North Korea, according to an official who negotiated the student’s release. The official said North Korea justified Warmbier’s imprisonment based on the regime’s claim that the Friendship United Methodist Church […]

The Arab states which have imposed an economic blockade on Qatar over its alleged financing of terrorism have issued a severe list of demands, which includes giving Doha 10 days to cut ties with Iran, shutting down Al-Jazeera, closing a Turkish military base and paying a fine. The Kuwait emissary, which is serving a mediator […]

The United States will retrieve the weapons it sent to the PKK affiliate YPG in Syria’s Raqqa when the Daesh terror group is defeated, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has said in a letter to his Turkish counterpart Fikri Işık. According to Turkish Ministry of Defense sources, Mattis sent a letter to Işık, in […]

Theresa May pledges to protect EU citizen rights but UK also insists it will have full jurisdiction over such rights. UK Prime Minister Theresa May promised EU citizens now living in Britain they could stay after Brexit, but set up a row with Brussels over the role of Europe’s top court. At a summit in […]