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Police officer responding to an active shooter situation in Kazan on February 27, 2018. © Maksim Bogovidov / Sputnik A shootout in the Russian city of Kazan has ended in the death of a policeman after a disgruntled man tried to break into his ex-wife’s apartment with a gun. Special police were called to the […]

In this file photo taken on October 06, 2017 Catalan National Assembly (ANC) president Jordi Sanchez, who is under investigation for sedition, giving a thumbs-up as he arrives to the High Court in Mad Catalan separatist parties are considering appointing jailed civil society leader Jordi Sanchez as regional president as their negotiations to try and […]

PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has continued to fight back against sanctions. (Reuters: KCNA) North Korea has been sending equipment to Syria that could be used in the manufacturing of chemical weapons, according to a New York Times report citing United Nations experts. Key points: North Korean technicians at Syrian chemical weapons facilities, according to unreleased […]

Rescue officials said that the passengers fell on the runway after the stairway collapsed. (File photo: AP) An Emirates flight stairway collapsed at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad on Tuesday, causing five injuries according to the Tribune. According to airport officials, the plane was departing to Dubai when the incident happened. Rescue officials said that […]

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with state and localofficials on school safety in the Roosevelt Room of the WhiteHouse on February 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO/ MANDEL NGAN) WASHINGTON — Hours after the Anti-Defamation League released a report Tuesday that detailed a dramatic spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in […]

 The Saudi Twitter community has been working itself up into a frenzy over a viral video depicting a woman beating up a man at a restaurant in the city of Jeddah. It’s safe to say the “Men’s Team” is rather worried  The footage, which was captured by the restaurant’s surveillance camera, has been making the rounds online, […]

Clockwise L-R: Emma Bonino, Giorgia Meloni, Beatrice Lorenzin, Maria Elena Boschi, Laura Boldrini. Photos: Tiziana Fabi, Alberto Pizzoli, Andreas Solaro/AFP  In an election campaign dominated by the men heading the major parties, several women are battling hard to make an impact when Italy goes to the polls on March 4th. Here are the names, faces, […]

An electronically-controlled lens that could eventually function in an artificial eye is the latest invention to come out of Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The large-scale metalens, complete with an artificial muscle, is the initial step toward a sensory eye that could relay images to the human brain, according to the Harvard Gazette. […]

US President Donald Trump holds a discussion about school shootings with state governors from around the country at the White House in Washington, US February 26, 2018. (Reuters  UNITED NATIONS/TEGUCIGALPA: The United States threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out […]

US-led international coalition forces. Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq is opposed to the rumored United States intentions to transfer its military base in Turkey to Kurdish areas in Iraq or Syria, an Iraqi government source was quoted saying on Tuesday. Iraqi website Almaalomah quoted the source saying that “the Iraqi government has received with astonishment the news […]