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These agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth, ” President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Donald Trump insisted Thursday morning that his longtime personal attorney acted outside the auspices of the 2016 Trump campaign when he paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement, […]

A Somali man looks out from a nearby building at the compound of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, May 3, 2018. Armed gunmen stormed into the ICRC compound in Somalia’s capital and abducted a female staffer, the aid group said Wednesday night, and a senior police official said […]

Soldiers loyal to Bashar al Assad seen near a bus carrying rebels from Yarmouk camp in Damascus on April 30, 2018. (Reuters) Syrian rebels began pulling out of an enclave they have surrendered in south Damascus on Thursday, but a few fighters in another besieged area near Homs shelled government areas after their groups agreed […]

Deadly attacks by the al-Shabaab extremist group targeting non-Muslim teachers in Kenya have caused hundreds of schools near the Somali border to shut down as teachers flee for their lives. Analysts say it is leaving local youth susceptible for recruitment to the al-Qaeda-linked group. Dozens of teachers have been sleeping in a union boardroom for […]

On site at the refugee home in Ellwangen on Thursday. Photo: DPA On Monday, a large group of migrants at a refugee centre aggressively prevented police from detaining a man who was to be deported. Authorities have now responded by sending hundreds of officers to the refugee home in Ellwangen. During the operation at the […]

NEW DELHI: As many as 97 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Rajasthanas heavy rain and dust storms on Wednesday evening wreaked havoc in parts of the two states. In Uttar Pradesh, the high-intensity dust storm left 64 people dead and 160 injured, Relief Commissioner Sanjay Kumar told PTI in Lucknow. Agra in UP saw the highest casualties with 43 people, […]

Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputkni Russia welcomes Donald Trump’s desire to engage with Moscow regarding an arms race and other global challenges, but the US leader’s deeds must match his words, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “We have repeatedly stated that we positively assess President Donald Trump’s desire to establish normal dialogue between our countries,” Lavrov told Italy’s […]

Ultra Orthodox Jews dance around a large bonfire in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel (EPA Photo) About 30 people were injured following a bonfire explosion during Lag BaOmer Jewish celebrations in London, the British daily Express reported on Thursday. The explosion in Stamford Hill may have been caused by a mobile phone, […]

AFP French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday laughed off the global sniggers he prompted after describing the wife of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as “delicious”. The faux pas — “delicieux” in French can also mean “delightful” — caused  widespread mirth, with one Sydney tabloid mocking up a nearly full-page photo  of Macron with the cartoon head […]

Representational photo. Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The United Nations on Wednesday expressed condemnation of an armed attack launched by Islamic State militants at a northern Baghdad area, urging Iraqis to remain alert for sleeper militant cells. U.N. representative in Iraq. Jan Kubis, “strongly condemns the terrorist shootings at Tarmiya north of Baghdad, in which a number of […]