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Carles Puigdemont pictured in Switzerland on March 18th. Photo: AFP German police on Sunday arrested Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont as he crossed over by car from Denmark. Puigdemont “was arrested today at 11:19 am by Schleswig-Holstein’s highway patrol force,” a German police spokesman told AFP, adding that the detention was based on a European […]

In Boston, Prince Mohammed met with the heads of universities and Saudi researchers. (Supplied) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman paid a visit to Boston that lasted several hours on Saturday before heading to New York, as part of his tour of the United States. In Boston, Prince Mohammed met with the heads of universities […]

People stand next to flowers laid in front of the Gendarmerie Nationale in Carcassonne on March 24th. Photo: AFP Along with a heroic police officer who offered himself as a hostage, the victims of the jihadist shooting attack in France were a butcher and two pensioners. The first victim of gunman Radouane Lakdim was the […]

MHe also stressed that the kingdom will announce to the world what it is doing to combat extremism. (AP) He also stressed that the kingdom will announce to the world what it is doing to combat extremism. (AP) In an interview with the Washington Post, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said this week that Islam was […]

Photo: AFP Thousands of protesters descended on the streets of Catalonia late Friday after Spain’s supreme court detained five separatist leaders for their role in last year’s independence bid. The court also issued international arrest warrants for six other Catalan figures who have fled abroad, including former regional president Carles Puigdemont.     Twenty-four protesters […]

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Fourteen people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a car suicide bombing in Lashkargah city of southern Helmand province on Friday, officials said. The blast took place at the entrance to the Ghazi Ayub Khan stadium in the limits ​​of the first security zone in Lashkargah city, killing 14 people and […]

The French policeman who swapped himself for a hostage held by a jihadist gunmen has died of his wounds, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Saturday. “Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame has passed away. He died for his country. France will never forget his heroism, his bravery, his sacrifice,” the minister wrote on his Twitter account. Beltrame was shot and stabbed after […]

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the inaugural KSA – USA Partnership Event dinner. (Supplied) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman delivered his first address in the United States at the inaugural KSA – USA Partnership Event dinner held in the Andrew Mellon Auditorium, hosted by the Royal Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in […]

Damascus Countryside, SANA – Army units on Friday secured the evacuation of thousands of civilians besieged by the terrorist organizations in the northern part of Eastern Ghouta through the safe corridor at al-Wafideen Camp. SANA’s correspondent said that army units, in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), secured the exit of 4500 civilians from the […]

 A French policeman shot and critically injured by an Islamist gunman on Friday after swapping himself for a hostage in a siege at a supermarket near Carcassonne has been hailed in France for his heroism and courage. The policeman was among a group of officers who rushed to the scene after the attacker, who claimed allegiance […]