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In a ceremony on Thursday, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Hassan Rouhani as president for a second four-year tenure. The ceremony, held at the Imam Khomeini Hussainia in Tehran, was attended by Parliament speaker, Judiciary chief and other senior military and government dignitaries. In comments following the endorsement,  Rouhani pledged economic growth and employment. […]

Al-Shabaab militants Photo: VOA – Al Shabaab militants have yet again attacked a town in Mandera – The militants burned two vehicles and captured another with its driver. A police officer was killed in the ambush – The militants were 50 in number and arrived in three cars from Somalia – Police and KDF are […]

Iuventa, a boat operated by German NGO Jugend Rettet, was impounded in Lampedusa on Wednesday. Photo: Handout/Italian police/AFP Italy on Wednesday dispatched a navy patrol boat to Libya and seized an NGO rescue ship in dramatic steps aimed at ending the migrant crisis that has engulfed Europe in recent years. The twin moves came as […]

Yazidi migrants in northern Iraq. Erbil (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants killed 1293 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority since they took over Iraqi territories in 2014, an official Kurdish report has said. A statistic released by the Kurdistan Region Government’s Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry said Islamic State’s massacres of Yazidis forced nearly 360.000 of the […]

Brazil’s President Michel Temer on Wednesday survived a congressional vote that could have suspended him over a bribery charge, mustering enough support to avoid a trial. Temer needed the support of just one-third – 171 – of the 513 members of the lower Chamber of Deputies. Hours after the voting began, he had received the […]

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev © Alexander Astafyev / Sputnik The US establishment has fully outwitted Donald Trump and used his administration’s weakness to declare a fully-fledged economic war on Russia, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said, adding, that the move leaves no doubt that bilateral ties will never improve. On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed […]

Fayez al-Sarraj and General Khalifa Haftar. (Supplied) Libyan commander General Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army, has ordered the bombing of any Italian warships requested by the prime minister of the Government of National Accord of Libya Fayez al-Sarraj, excluding merchant vessels. This comes after the government of national accord announced the arrival of […]

WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday that the United States would like to have dialogue with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) at some point. “We are not your enemy…but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond,” said Tillerson here at a press […]