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(CNN)President Donald Trump, carefully attuned to the emotional national debate unfolding after last week’s school shooting in Florida, signaled Thursday that he is willing to pressure Congress to take action on guns. He faces stiff odds. Changing the nation’s gun laws poses a test of leadership for a President with fractured relations on Capitol Hill, […]

A nuclear explosion. FILE PHOTO / Sputnik By training its European allies to use their nuclear arms, the US is moving towards an atomic war with Russia, forgetting that it would mean the end of the human civilization, retired Lieutenant General Evgeny Buzhinsky told RT. The US military is preparing the armed forces of the […]

Photo: DPA Foreign hackers have invaded the data network of Germany’s federal government and security authorities, according to information obtained by the German Press Agency (DPA). The Russian hacker group known as APT28 has successfully attacked Germany’s foreign and defence ministries and captured data, security circles stated on Wednesday. This is in spite of the […]

Smoke rose from the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Tuesday, February 27 [Bassam Khabieh/Reuters] Hours into second attempt at implementing Russian truce, government shelling intensifies in towns near front lines. Syrian government forces have clashed with rebels on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta, despite a Russian-sponsored truce that is now in its second day, […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his late father Kim Jong-il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s, five senior Western European security sources tell Reuters. While North Korea’s ruling family is known to have used travel documents obtained under false pretences, there are few specific […]

A H-2A rocket carrying an intelligence-gathering satellite successfully takes off from the Tanegashima Space center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Tuesday afternoon. Photo: KYODO ANEGASHIMA— Japan on Tuesday successfully launched an H-2A rocket carrying a government intelligence-gathering satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, with the rocket later releasing the satellite as planned. The optical reconnaissance satellite […]

KABUL (Pajhwok): In an expected overture, the national unity government asserted its desire to strike a “truthful and sustainable peace deal” with the Taliban who are ready for reconciliation/ President Ashraf Ghani spoke of his administration’s desire for peace negotiations with the insurgent movement in his remarks to the second meeting of the Kabul process. For their part, the […]

Police are urging drivers to stay home because of the elevated risk of traffic accidents. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT The ‘Beast from the East’, the brutal Siberian winter storm that has swept in over Sweden, on Wednesday continued to create havoc across the nation, prompting police to urge drivers to simply stay home. Snow continued to […]

Combined joint task force of the Somali National Army (SNA) and Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) AMISOM contingent killed 23 members of Al-Shabaab terror group in Fahfahdun town situated in the South West prefecture of Gedo Province of Somalia. KDF conducted an assault targeting the new base of the terrorists in the outskirts of Fahfahdun town, […]

Egyptian Army’s soldiers fire artilleries during a launch of a major assault against militants in the troubled northern part of the Sinai peninsula in Al Arish. (Reuters) The Egyptian military forces hit and destroyed 20 targets and a number of headquarters used by terrorist elements as their base. The forces destroyed two car bombs and […]