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Paul Kagame cast his vote in Kigali [Jean Bizimana/Reuters] Rwanda’s incumbent leader Paul Kagame has sealed a landslide victory in presidential elections, granting him a third term in office and extending his 17 years in power. With 80 percent of votes accounted for, the 59-year-old former guerrilla leader secured 98.66 percent, the National Electoral Commission’s […]

AA Photo Ankara, Doha and Tehran want to discuss land trade routes on the sidelines of the oath-taking ceremony of Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rouhani on Saturday, Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said Friday. “We’re thinking about alternatives for land trade routes with Qatar but the easiest way is passing through Iran,” Zeybekci told Anadolu Agency […]

M© nullplus / Getty Images A Muslim woman who rented a private vacation residence in France was reportedly made to pay €490 (US$575) because she swam in the property’s communal pool while wearing a burkini. The owner said the pool had to be emptied and cleaned after her swim. The woman, referred to as ‘Fadila’ […]

Two Jordanian men were killed and an Israeli man was seriously wounded by gunfire at the Israeli embassy in Amman. Two Jordanians have been killed and an Israeli wounded by gunfire in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan’s capital Amman, the kingdom’s Public Security Directorate said. The shooting took […]

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The United States said on Friday it took part in a July 30 raid that Somalia’s government has already said killed a senior member of an al Shabaab network, which Mogadishu blames for several Islamist bombings. The Somali information ministry said on Monday the attack near the southern town of Torotoroow targeted […]

Fully-veiled Muslim women in Hesse. Photo: DPA. The case of a Muslim pupil refusing to remove her niqab triggered debate in Lower Saxony. Now a new law may mean that full-face Islamic veils will no longer be allowed in state schools. The state of Lower Saxony is expected to announce a ban on face veils […]

As if the news out of North Korea wasn’t bad enough, things might get a lot worse within the next 18 months. We should not be surprised if the Communist dictatorship develops a hydrogen bomb – the ultimate atomic weapon – with the potential to kill millions of people. A Defense Department official I spoke […]

© Mladen Antonov / AFP The Kremlin agrees with Donald Trump’s assessment of the poor state of relations between the US and Russia, its spokesman said. Earlier, Trump accused the US Congress of dragging the relationship with Russia to “an all-time and very dangerous low.” “We fully agree with this opinion,” Dmitry Peskov told reporters on […]

The men attempted to place a bomb on an Etihad flight out of Sydney last month in a plot directed by ISIL, say police. After the bid failed, the men changed tactics and were in the early stages of devising a chemical dispersion device, said police [File: David Gray/Reuters] Two men facing terrorism charges in Australia were […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China in September for a summit of BRICS leaders [File AP] Beijing demands New Delhi must ‘immediately withdraw troops’ from disputed border amid Donglang stand-off. China says India has been building up troops along its side of the border and demands an “immediate withdrawal” amid an increasingly tense […]