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Migrants on board the Diciotti coastguard ship last week. Photo: Giovanni Isolino / AFP Nearly 140 migrants who had been stranded on a boat at a port in Sicily were allowed to disembark early on Sunday after Ireland and Albania agreed to take some of them in. The boat docked at Catania port on Monday […]

FILE PHOTO. A hit from a Shmel-series anti-personnel flamethrower. © Vitaliy Ankov / Sputnik   Russia’s Uran-9 battle bot, which was successfully tested on the Syrian battlefield, has been considerably beefed up, new photos reveal. The formidable vehicle has now been fitted with 12 anti-personnel flamethrowers. The upgraded Uran-9 Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle has been […]

HARARE, August 26 – Emmerson Mnangagwa took the oath as Zimbabwe’s president in front of a stadium crowd on Sunday after a divisive election, as U.S. observers of that vote questioned the country’s democratic credentials. The Constitutional Court confirmed Mnangagwa as president in a ruling released on Friday, dismissing a challenge by the man he […]

Sen. John McCain at the Republic Media building in downtown Phoenix on Aug. 3, 2017 Tom Tingle/The Republic John McCain, who endured more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before becoming the 2008 Republican presidential nominee and serving Arizona for more than 30 years on Capitol Hill, died Saturday at age […]

The hostages were taken during attacks on villages in Sweida, during which dozens of people were killed [SANA/AP] SIL has taken a group of at least 27 people hostage in the sparsely populated Sweida desert in southern Syria, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Among those kidnapped, who are mostly of members of the minority Druze community, […]

© Getty Images If Washington continues to implement “unreasonable measures” against China, Beijing will hit back and “resolutely” respond, its Finance Minister said amid an escalating trade war between the two powers. “China doesn’t wish to engage in a trade war, but we will resolutely respond to the unreasonable measures taken by the United States,” Liu […]

Ever since President Donald Trump discovered that he could unilaterally pardon individuals , aides say he’s been thrilled by that level of unchecked power. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images   President Donald Trump’s lawyers and a cadre of informal White House advisers claim they’ve convinced him not to pardon Paul Manafort — but White House officials […]

The coastguard ship Diciotti lands in Sicily after an earlier mission in July. Photo: Alessandro Fucarini/AFP Italy’s deputy prime minister has threatened to pull the country’s EU funding if the bloc does not come to the aid of 150 people stranded aboard an Italian coastguard ship, drawing a rebuke from Brussels. The migrants have been blocked […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged China to adopt further steps to open its market, disagreeing with Beijing’s assessment of the country’s progress in reforming state-owned enterprises, reducing trade and investment restrictions and its efforts to reduce government debt. “We are looking at China and comparing it with other G20 countries … in terms […]

In a rare rebuttal to Trump, Sessions quickly moved to defend himself. (File photo: AFP) US Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back at President Donald Trump on Thursday after Trump gave a scathing assessment of his leadership at the Justice Department. Sessions, a former US senator from Alabama, was one of the first Republican lawmakers […]