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Emergency personnel and police respond to a reported active shooter situation near Fountain Square, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo) A gunman opened fire Thursday morning in a building in the heart of Cincinnati in an attack that left him and three other people dead, police said. The shooting sent people scrambling across […]

An Israeli soldier rides an armored vehicle in the Golan Heights on August 7, 2018. (Reuters) US ambassador to Israel David Friedman expects the annexed Golan Heights to remain under Israeli control “forever”, according to an excerpt released Thursday of an interview he gave to an Israeli newspaper. Israel seized most of the Golan Heights […]

At the Rocca di Papa migrant reception centre. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Around 50 of the 144 migrants recently allowed into Italy after being stranded for days on a coastguard vessel have disappeared from reception centres, the country’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday. These migrants “were so in need of protection, a roof […]

  US President Donald Trump has slammed an opinion piece in The New York Times in a series of tweets, and demanded the publication to reveal the author’s identity for national security purposes. The op-ed was written by an anonymous senior administration official who claimed to be part of a “resistance” working “from within” to thwart […]

Residents look at a collapsed house in Atsuma, Hokkaido, on Thursday afternoon.  Photo: KYODO TOKYO A powerful earthquake paralyzed Hokkaido on Thursday, killing at least nine people, triggering landslides and knocking out power to its 5.3 million residents. The death toll from the 6.7-magnitude, pre-dawn quake was likely to rise as rescuers searched houses buried by landslides. About […]

British prosecutors on Wednesday charged two Russians for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter with a nerve agent, naming suspects for the first time in a case that has caused one of the biggest East-West rifts in decades. Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer who betrayed dozens of […]

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 18 people were killed and 50 others wounded in a suicide attack on a sports club in central capital Kabul on Wednesday, police said. Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that police had cordoned off the area after the blast that took place in the limits of the sixth police district […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said intense diplomatic efforts are underway with Assad’s main supporters, Russia and Iran, to avoid escalations in Idlib. President Erdoğan urged de-escalation in Idlib, Syria amid possible attacks by the Assad regime, saying that it would cause a humanitarian catastrophe, lead to the massacre of civilians and a new refugee wave […]

Thomas Kwesi Quartey, deputy chairperson of the African Union Commission, addresses the Forum on African Energy Interconnection Development in Beijing BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) — China and African countries agreed to work together toward an even stronger community with a shared future, according to a declaration adopted Tuesday at the 2018 Beijing Summit of the […]

EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger. Photo: John Thys/AFP The European Union is under threat from some of its own members, including Italy, EU Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger has warned. “In my view, the project is in mortal danger,” Oettinger told an event in Brussels on Tuesday night, according to Politico. As well as outside opponents such […]