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The building of the Russian Foreign Ministry. © Sergey Kovalev / Global Look Press Responding to a threat from US President Donald Trump, who said Russia should prepare for “nice new and smart missiles” launched by America at Syria, Moscow said if the weapons were smart, they would target terrorists. “Smart missiles should fly towards […]

After 15 months of beatings and abuse in captivity by Libyan traffickers, a Somali mother rejoins her teenage sons in Niamey. Somali mother of two Amina* was strong and vigorous before she fell into the hands of Libyan traffickers. After more than a year of relentless beatings and electric shocks, she is now broken and […]

Paolo Borrometi has been living under police protection for four years. Photo: Paolo Borrometi/Facebook The Sicilian mafia sought to have a journalist killed for his reporting on their activities, investigators said on Tuesday. While investigating a different assassination attempt, police wiretaps caught members of the Cappello clan, based in Pachino in the deep south of […]

  President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington,  Monday, April 9, 2018, at the start of a meeting with military leaders. (AP Photo) In a provocative tweet, U.S. President Donald Trump mocked Russia’s recent warning on responding to any attack targeting the regime, declaring that missiles “will be […]

The plane, an Ilyushin Il-76, was carrying 200 people, according to local reports said [Ennahar TV/AP] At least 181 passengers have been reported killed, after a military plane crashed near the Boufarik airbase outside the Algerian capital, Algiers, according to the local Ennahar television station. The plane, an Ilyushin Il-76, was carrying 200 people, local reports […]

Illustrative. An Israeli D9 bulldozer rolls along the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip following Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on July 10, 2014. (Jack Guez/AFP) Palestinians detonated a bomb near an Israeli construction vehicle adjacent to the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, causing neither injury nor damage, the […]

Alexander Zasypkin said he was referring to a statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian chief of staff [Al-Manar TV] Russia‘s ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin has said that his country would respond to any US missiles fired at neighbouring Syria by shooting them down and targeting their launch sites. In an interview with Hezbollah-owned […]

A man is washed following alleged chemical weapons attack, in what is said to be Douma, Syria in this still image from video obtained by Reuters on April 8, 2018 © White Helmets / Reuters By jumping to conclusions about the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, Donald Trump’s war cabinet and their media cheerleaders […]

The cell planned to target Barcelona. Photo: AFP Ten members of a jihadist cell linked to the Islamic State group (IS) who planned attacks in Barcelona and to film a decapitation were sentenced to 8-12 years in jail on Tuesday. The defendants included five Moroccans, four Spaniards and a Brazilian, the National Court, which handles […]

Li Muzi / Imago / TASS Russia said on Tuesday it will propose to the United Nations that international inspectors visit the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Douma, a move which follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning of quick, forceful action in response to the incident. At least 60 […]