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PHOTO: The helicopter pontoon at Hardy Reef, where a chopper crashed on Wednesday afternoon. (cqplanespotting.blogspot.com.au – file image) Two people were killed when a helicopter crashed on a remote Barrier Reef pontoon off the Whitsunday islands in North Queensland, police have confirmed. Five people were aboard the helicopter when it crashed at the Hardy Reef pontoon. “Three […]

Protesters hold up posters of jailed and exiled leaders during a demo last week. Photo: AFP A Spanish judge has summoned Catalan separatists he is probing for their alleged role in the region’s independence drive to tell them what they are charged with, the penultimate step before trial. Among those summoned to the Supreme Court on […]

© Ben Stansall, AFP | Police don protective coveralls with breathing equipment on the grounds of a cement plant near Salisbury on March 19, 2018, as investigations in connection with the apparent nerve agent attack continue. A Russian foreign ministry official said on Wednesday that Britain may have “orchestrated an attack” on Russian citizen Yulia […]

Us president Donald Trumo shake hands with Saudi Arabia´s Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House on March 20,2018 in Washington D-AFP Washington — Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, held wide-ranging talks with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. The […]

KAMPALA- American troops have carried out airstrikes in Somalia and killed three al Shabaab fighters in the southern town of Jilib, the headquarters of the militants. A Wednesday statement issued by the US Africa Command said the attack was carried out on Monday. “In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. forces conducted an airstrike […]

People sit atop a trailer with their belongings fleeing a Turkish offensive in Syria’s Afrin region, March 15, 2018. (Photo: Reuters) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The United Nations on Monday called for urgent help to address the catastrophic situation tens of thousands of people from the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin are facing. […]

Men transport a victim at a hospital after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan March 21, 2018. (Reuters Photo) A suicide bomber struck on the road to a Shiite shrine in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 29 people as Afghans celebrated the Persian new year, Afghanistan’s Health Ministry said. The Health Ministry put the […]

FILE PHOTO: A Japan Self-Defense Forces soldier takes part in a drill to mobilise their Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile unit © Issei Kato The deployment of US missile shield components in Japan directly affects Russia’s national security and regional interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press conference with his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo. […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seen reading a letter from South Korean President Moon Jae-in on a North Korean TV program aired Tuesday. / Yonhap  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un spoke “boldly and frankly” when he met President Moon Jae-in’s special envoys, sources said Wednesday. “The South’s high-level delegation quoted Kim as saying the […]

An explosion on Tuesday evening in Austin Texas is not related to the series of bombs that rocked the state capital. That’s according to local athorities. Police say the blast at a Goodwill charity shop was caused by an “incendiary device” — not by a package bomb, as initially reported. Assistant Chief of Police Eli […]