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A blaze destroyed a Paris bus on Tuesday and left plumes of black smoke rising over part of the city center. An investigation has been opened. Photo: Kenneth Maussang/Twitter The number 63 bus caught fire at around 9am on Rue des Ecles in the fifth arrondissement of the French capital, shortly after the driver had […]

North Korea on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump’s tweeted message that he has a bigger nuclear button than its leader Kim Jong-Un as the “spasm of a lunatic” and the “bark of a rabid dog”. North Korea’s official party newspaper on Tuesday dismissed Trump’s “swaggering” as nothing but the “spasm of a lunatic”. (AFP) Kim […]

Bangladesh has agreed to complete the process of returning Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar within two years after repatriation begins, the south Asian nation said on Tuesday, following a meeting of the neighbours to implement a pact signed last year.   © Munir Uz Zaman, AFP | Rohingya Muslim refugees wait for food aid at Thankhali […]

North Korea agreed Monday to send a 140-member orchestra to South Korea during next month’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics and hold concerts in Seoul and a sub-host city of the games. The North’s tentatively-named Samjiyon Orchestra will perform in the capital and Gangneung, 240 kilometers east of Seoul, South Korea’s unification ministry said after inter-Korean talks […]

he United States needs to adapt to the reality of an increasingly multipolar world and it has to stop its dictating policy toward other nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. Russian FM Sergei Lavrov (Reuters Photo) “Unfortunately, our American colleagues still want to operate only on the basis of a dictating policy, […]

Venezuelan officials say several people have been killed in a police operation to arrest a fugitive ex-officer who stole a police helicopter and attacked government buildings six months ago. The police operation resulted in a shootout that left several people dead, according to Venezuelan officials [Marco Bello/Reuters] A former elite police officer and a pilot, […]

The Turkish president has called US-backed Syrian Border Force using Kurdish fighters a “terrorist army,” vowing to “drown” it before it’s complete. He also added that military preparations against Kurdish-held Afrin are ready. FILE PHOTO: Turkish army tanks and military personal are stationed in Karkamis on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey. […]

Twin explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad have killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 100, police and medical sources said. Monday’s attacks were carried out by two suicide bombers, who detonated their belts in a crowd of workers at the Al Tayaran Square in central Baghdad, Iraq’s interior ministry spokesman Saad […]

PRESIDENT Donald Trump of the United States has denied that he is racist, after a row broke out over his alleged use of the word “shithole” to describe African nations. Trump reportedly used the term last week during a bipartisan meeting on immigration reform at White House. US President, Donald Trump But in his interaction […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signaled Sunday a military operation against the PKK terror group’s Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria’s Afrin, located at the border with Turkey. Speaking at the provincial congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in the central province […]