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BEIJING – China urged the United States to sack the head of the U.S. Pacific Command in return for exerting more pressure on North Korea amid concerns over its growing nuclear and missile threats, a source close to U.S.-China ties said Saturday. The Chinese leadership headed by President Xi Jinping made the request, through its […]

Mosul – Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly seven-month attempt to dislodge ISIS, commanders said on Friday. Footage taken by a drone operated by the Iraqi 9th Armored Division over the northwestern suburb of Musherfa, showed the militants had […]

The French capital, unlike other parts of the country, does not like Marine Le Pen much – in fact only five percent voted for her. So are Parisians losing sleep at the thought she could be the next French president? On the side of a building in Montorgueil, a trendy pedestrian area in central Paris, a line […]

The US has suffered its first combat death in Somalia since 1993, with a US Navy SEAL killed in a clash with al Shabaab militants.  A US Navy SEAL has been killed and two troops wounded in a clash with al Shabaab militants in Somalia, US officials say, in what appeared to be the first […]

Rescuers in the Mediterranean raced Friday to the aid of more than 20 migrant dinghies in distress as the debate in Italy over privately-funded aid ships intensified and the death toll at sea ticked steadily upwards. “There are over 20 boats in difficulty off Libya and an already tense situation has worsened with people in […]

North Korea says a pair of strategic US bombers, which recently flew over the Korean Peninsula in joint wargames with the South, practiced dropping a nuclear bomb amid rising tensions in the restive region. In a Tuesday report, the North’s official KCNA news agency slammed the US for deploying two supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers during […]

The bizarre case of a German soldier who registered as a Syrian refugee has exposed failings in Germany’s handling of a mass influx of over a million asylum-seekers since 2015. Posing as a Damascus fruit seller, army lieutenant Franco Albrecht, 28, had managed to gain asylum in his home country, obtaining a space in a […]

Istanbul is set to host the 13th International Defense Industry Fair, which will be attended by many international defense industry companies and high-ranking delegations from around 50 countries. At the fair, companies will exhibit different defense vehicles and equipment Bayraktar TB2, produced by Baykar Makina, is the first drone to successfully meet compliance standards set […]

Emmanuel Macron has stretched his lead over Marine Le Pen in the latest opinion poll carried out after Marine Le Pen’s widely criticised performance in the live TV debate. Friday is the final day of campaigning. Wednesday night’s live TV debate may indeed have an impact on Sunday’s vote but not in the way Marine […]

BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for exploring fields and ways of cooperation with Denmark under the Belt and Road initiative. Xi was meeting with Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, who was in China on a four-day official visit, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. […]