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US President Donald Trump’s position on climate change was termed “regrettable” by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her closing remarks at the G20 summit but world leaders appeared to have struck a deal on trade policies. In Hamburg on Saturday, Merkel said the two-day summit, marred by violent protests on the streets, achieved “good results in some areas” and […]

The Donald Trump seen on television is different from the one in real life, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G20 summit, adding that after his meeting with the US leader in Hamburg, he felt like relations between the two countries could at least partially be restored. “As for personal relations, I think that […]

US President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and violent G20 summit in Germany at odds even with America’s traditional Western allies. Negotiators from the world’s 20 top economies were expected to have worked all night trying to hammer out a final summit statement that at least gives the impression […]

The violence that has marred the G20 summit since Thursday escalated even further late on Friday evening, with rioters smashing up and plundering shops in the left-wing Schanzenviertel neighbourhood. Police responded in huge numbers to the violence, deploying water cannon against the rioters, who defended themselves by constructing burning barricades. Special forces, armed with machine […]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reaffirmed before the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday that terrorism has no religion, for it is a crime that targets the entire world, according to Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Indeed, it does not differentiate between religions and ethnic groups, and Saudi Arabia condemns terrorism in all forms and […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces on Saturday took control over western Mosul’s medieval Old City, the last bastion for Islamic State militants in Iraq’s second largest city. Military media quoted the Joint Operations Command saying forces took control over the Old City, the birthplace of Islamic State’s self-styled “caliphate” in Iraqi and Syria which was […]

Journalists rushed the G20 backstage to see the much-anticipated first meeting of the US and Russian presidents at the summit. READ MORE: Putin & Trump meet on sidelines of G20 summit (VIDEO) “OK, one by one,” a member of the protocol team presumably can be heard in the video trying to organize the reporters eager to enter […]

The Egyptian soldiers were targeted on Friday in attacks on several checkpoints in Sinai that included car bombings, the military said in a statement. The military said it killed the assailants as it clashed with extremists in North Sinai, where the ISIS group is leading a deadly insurgency. The Egyptian military said it killed the […]

 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, shook Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, shook hands for the first time before their much-anticipated meeting in Hamburg. Syria, Ukraine, and North Korea are Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands during the G20 Summit in […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Hamburg late Thursday night for the G20 summit and the highly anticipated first in person contact with his US counterpart Donald Trump, scheduled on the sidelines of the top world leaders’ meeting. READ MORE: Dozens injured as anti-G20 protesters clash with Hamburg police ‘like never before’ (VIDEOS) The Russian […]