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FILE PHOTO A Sukhoi Su-22 Syrian army plane / Sputnik Israel has fired interceptor missiles at a Syrian Sukhoi warplane, the IDF said in a statement, adding that the aircraft had penetrated Israeli-controlled airspace. “Two Patriot missiles were launched at a Sukhoi fighter plane. The plane was under [Israeli] surveillance, it penetrated about two kilometers […]

Hibo is now a FGM campaigner and lives in London (Picture: Alexander Crawley for Metro.co.uk)  When I read the story of the 10-year-old girl who bled to death in Somalia after female genitalia mutilation (FGM) – not only bled to death but she also caught tetanus – I cannot imagine the pain she was going […]

Mystery U.S. cargo plane flew to Pyongyang for “routine” purposes: official “Hercules” aircraft facilitated crew change for Pompeo’s State Department mission, source says  A United States Air Force (U.S.A.F) C-130J-30 cargo plane that left Pyongyang’s Sunan International airportat 0413 on July 7 for Yokota airbase in Japan did so for “routine” reasons, a U.S. government source […]

People stand in the sea near to cars parked on the beach to protect them from the fire in the town of Mati, east of Athens, Monday, July 23, 2018. Regional authorities have declared a state of emergency in the eastern and western parts of the greater Athens area as fires fanned by gale-force winds […]

  © Provided by thecanadianpress.com TORONTO – The latest on the mass shooting in Toronto (all times local): 6:10 p.m. The family of the suspect in the deadly Toronto mass shooting says he suffered from severe mental health problems, but relatives “could never imagine that this would be his devastating and destructive end.” Faisal Hussain’s […]

King Ahmed Iman  left (Somalia) and King Wilson Peni,(South Africa)  Royalty have been showing up for this year’s Hargeisa International Book Fair in the self-declared state of Somaliland. The BBC’s Mary Harper snapped this shot of two kings attending the event, one of the largest celebrations of literature and the arts in East Africa: The monarch […]

  The French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived Monday morning in Tripoli coming from Tunisia with the intent to hold meetings with Libyan rivals who met in Paris on May 29. Le Drian said in a joint presser with his Libyan counterpart Mohammed Sayala that he told the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez […]

Migrants and refugees are evacuated from their camp by French CRS riot police at Daviais square in Nantes, western France, on July 23, 2018. Photo: AFP French police on Monday cleared some 450 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants from a park in the western city of Nantes where they had been camping for more than a […]

Danforth Ave. was closed to traffic and even local residents were prevented from returning home Sunday night, as police investigated a shooting rampage.  (RICHARD LAUTENS / TORONTO STAR) Danforth Ave. was closed to traffic and even local residents were prevented from returning home Sunday night, as police investigated a shooting rampage.  (RICHARD LAUTENS / TORONTO STAR) She heard shots. “I thought […]

The bus where the incident occurred. Photo: DPA Ten people were injured in an assault by a man wielding a knife on a bus in northern Germany. The 34-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday and appeared before a magistrate on Saturday. The packed bus was heading in the direction of Travemünde, a popular beach close […]