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Three people were arrested in France on Tuesday for alleged links to a suspect in last year’s deadly jihadist attacks in Barcelona and a nearby seaside resort, the Spanish interior ministry said Tuesday. 16 people were killed when a van drove into crowds on the popular Las Ramblas boulevard in the heart of Barcelona. Photo: […]

A three-day jazz, food and arts festival will be held in the Saudi capital Riyadh starting Thursday. The festival’s entertainment department said, “it will celebrate jazz culture which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, and inspired other audiovisual arts schools.” A three-day jazz, food and arts festival will be held in the Saudi […]

A convoy of fighters waving Syrian flags has apparently entered the northern Kurdish-held region of Afrin, which Turkey is targeting in a cross-border operation, footage on Syrian state TV shows. FILE PHOTO. © Mikhail Alaeddin / Sputnik The pro-government fighters were filmed entering the village of Nubul in some 20 pickup trucks. An RT source on […]

A congested street in Düsseldorf. Photo: DPA One of Germany’s top courts will decide on Thursday whether some diesel vehicles can be banned from parts of cities like Stuttgart and Düsseldorf to reduce air pollution, a possible landmark judgement for the “car nation”. Eyes have turned to the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig after years […]

The US and South Korea will go ahead with military drills off the Korean peninsula despite the “Peace Olympics” and the recent thaw in North-South relations, the South’s defense ministry said in a report to the National Assembly. In the run-up to the Olympic Games in PyeongChang, Seoul was able to convince Washington to delay […]

WELLINGTON – New Zealand’s national carrier on Tuesday cancelled all flights in and out of the capital, Wellington, and the southern city of Christchurch declared a state of emergency as the remnants of tropical cyclone Gita pummelled the country. Christchurch after ex-tropical cyclone Gita hit on 19 February 2018. Picture: @ChristchurchCC/Twitter Even before the storm […]

UN warns bombardment must stop as more than 100 civilians killed in regime attacks on rebel-held area east of Damascus   Air raids by Syrian government forces on the Damascus suburb is targeting civilians, the UN has said [Amar al-Bushy/Al Jazeera] Air raids by Syrian government forces on the Damascus suburb is targeting civilians, the […]

A few weeks ago, Belgium lowered the national threat level almost two years after the attacks that killed 32 people in Brussels. The level was dropped to two from three on a four-tier scale. The move indicates the threat has fallen to medium from serious, meaning an attack is now considered unlikely, rather than probable. […]

The president spent most of the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, as White House aides advised against golfing too soon after the shooting at a Parkland high school that left 17 dead. U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly spent much of the holiday weekend watching cable television news and grousing to club members and advisers about the investigation […]

The coldest town in the northern hemisphere has brushed off concerns expressed by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation over low temperatures, claiming that locals have gotten used to such extreme weather. Maarten Takens / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Oymyakon in Russia’s northeastern Sakha republic has been nicknamed the “Cold Pole” for being one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth. […]