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Carles Puigdemont. Photo: DPA  German prosecutors on Tuesday asked a court to order the extradition of Catalonia’s ousted president Carles Puigdemont on a rebellion charge following his arrest in Germany last month. The request comes after protests by independence supporters at the weekend in Berlin and Catalonia calling for Puigdemont’s immediate release. “The prosecutor’s office […]

In his interview MBS also said Saudi Arabia “does not have a problem” with anti-Semitism [Reuters] Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamad bin Salman has declared that Israel has the right to its own land alongside Palestinians. In an interview with the US-based The Atlantic magazine, the 32-year-old heir to the Saudi throne declared: “I believe that […]

File Photo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (Photo: Reuters) Egypt’s National Elections Authority (NEA) has declared Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi the winner of the nation’s 2018 presidential elections, securing a second four-year term after winning 21,835,378 votes or 97.08 percent of valid votes. At a press conference in Cairo on Monday, the NEA said that 24,254,152 citizens […]

© Carlos Barria / Reuters US President Donald Trump has suggested meeting Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Washington, DC. Trump made the offer during a phone call between the two leaders, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov confirmed. “When the presidents talked on the phone, Trump suggested holding a meeting in Washington DC,” Ushakov told reporters on Monday. […]

Ethiopia’s parliament swore in Abiy Ahmed as prime minister on Monday with a mandate to implement democratic reforms aimed partly at defusing ethnic tensions in the Oromiya province from which the former army lieutenant general hails. The ruling coalition picked Abiy last week to replace Hailemariam Desalegn who quit to clear the way for reforms. […]

Immigrants and their supporters have slammed US President Donald Trump for a series of tweets that ostensibly ends any hopes of a deal on the programme that protects hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation. “Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © Maksim Blinov / Sputnik Russia’s top diplomat has lashed out at UK and US rhetoric against Moscow over the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal, saying it’s worse now than it was during the Cold War. “There has been a lot of talk that the situation is worse than […]

Customers choose imported fruits at a supermarket in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. [Photo/VCG] China announced to impose new tariffs on 128 imports from the United States starting Monday in response to the new US tariffs on steel and aluminum that took effect a week ago. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council decided to impose […]

A Facebook picture of Joanna Demafelis who had lost contact with her family in May 2016. Manila looked for Filipino domestic helper in Kuwait when she was reported missing, but gave up after the agency that recruited her to the Middle East closed down. Dubai: A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a Lebanese man and his […]

Candidates wait for the test to begin. Jobs in Italy’s public sector are so sought-after that candidates flock from across the country to go through a gruelling selection process. This Wednesday, 824 nervous applicants, most of them young university graduates, were whittled down to around 500 in a gruelling process to get a job as […]