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Dr Walid Shaker with Safia Farah Jama at Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi. A tumour the size of a tennis ball was removed from Jama’s heart valves in a four-hour operation.-Supplied photo The tumour led to severe episodes of rapid heart rate, heart attack, bouts of dizziness and fainting.  A woman suffering from a rare cancerous […]

Ba’aj (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Ministry of Defense’s War Media Cell announced, on Monday, that 50 members of the Islamic State were killed and a Syrian booby-trapped tank was destroyed by an air strike in al-Ba’aj District, on the Iraqi-Syrian borders. In a press statement the cell revealed that Iraqi Air Force managed, today, to conduct an […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the authorities of St. Petersburg to take all necessary measures to provide adequate assistance to those who were either injured or lost their loved ones in the attacks in the metro of St. Petersburg today, April 3, 2017, a message posted on the website of the Kremlin said. In pictures: […]

The explosion in the metro of St. Petersburg was conducted by a suicide bomber, Interfax reports with reference to law-enforcement agencies. The terrorist has already been identified. Earlier, it was reported that the terrorist suspect left a suitcase bomb in the carriage and left. “According to one of the versions, the explosive device was detonated […]

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, is visiting Iraq with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an official said on Sunday night. Details about the trip to the Middle East with Gen. Joseph Dunford were not released. A senior administration official said Kushner wanted to see the situation in Iraq […]

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ended a two-hour meeting with US President Donald Trump, where the two announced they would be cooperating in the fight against terrorism. El-Sisi praised Trump’s “unique personality” and stressed Egypt’s support of the US in the fight against terrorism, to which Trump said, “we will do that together.” The Egyptian […]

MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. According to latest reports, ten people were killed by an explosion inside a metro train at the Sennaya Square station in St. Petersburg, emergency services told TASS. According to a source, an unidentified device exploded in a train car. According to latest reports, at least nine people are dead and over twenty injured in the […]

US president says trade could be a lever in getting China to take a tougher stance over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.   US President Donald Trump held out the possibility on Sunday of using trade as a lever to secure Chinese cooperation against North Korea and suggested Washington might deal with Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile […]

REJECTED visa applications are keeping thousands of Chinese tourists from visiting Hawaii. More than 2,000 of the 6,000 Nu Skin distributors in China who were planning to attend a conference are not able to attend because of visa troubles, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. Next month’s convention of the direct marketing company that sells personal care […]