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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (C), poses with the members of the newly appointed Cabinet following a news conference at the Beştepe Presidential Complex in Ankara, July 9. Turkey’s new Cabinet is expected to raise the prospect for a more dynamic term in politics. All of the ministers are prominent people in their respective fields and […]

At a meeting with NATO’s Stoltenberg, Trump said Germany is ‘captive’ to Russia [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters US President Donald Trump has told NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that Germany is “captive” to Russia because it is importing energy from there. In a heated exchange with the NATO chief ahead of a summit in Brussels on Wednesday, the US president was fiercely […]

  A man whose family is missing watches search and rescue operations at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Wednesday. Photo: REUTERS/Issei Kato Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited flood-stricken parts of Japan on Wednesday as the death toll from the worst weather disaster in 36 years reached 176 and health worries […]

Two contrasting styles will clash when England take on Croatia with both sets of players setting their eyes on what may be their first and final shot at the world championship. For almost all of them, this is realistically now or never. These English players grew up hearing about the class of 1966, immortal legends […]

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the news media before boarding Marine One for travel to Europe from the White House, in Washington, U.S., Tuesday (local time). Reuters The Trump administration is readying tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese imports, ranging from burglar alarms to mackerel, escalating a trade war between the world’s two […]

The new NATO headquarters building is pictured in Brussels, Belgium, May 7, 2018. © Francois Lenoir / Reuters Combating mistrust – not terrorism – may be the top item on the agenda for NATO when it meets in Brussels this week. Usually a scripted snooze-fest, this year’s summit has been billed as a showdown between […]

Roads are flooded with heavy rain in Asakita Ward in the city of Hiroshima on Saturday morning. | KYODO Scenes of chaos after floods and landslides wreak havoc in western JapanAt least 16 people have been killed and around 50 remain missing amid record-breaking heavy rains, floods and landslides in much of western Japan. This […]

boats as a boat carrying Palestinian patients and students sails towards Europe aiming to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, at the sea in Gaza July 10, 2018. (Reuters)People ride  Israel’s navy seized a boat on Tuesday that had left from a Gaza port with wounded Palestinians aboard in a bid to challenge the blockade of […]

Despite various measures intended to prevent deaths, including dams to control flood waters, Japan sees rain-related deaths most years.  Photo: AFP Japan is famously prone to natural disasters including earthquakes and tsunamis, and is generally considered well-prepared to cope. So why has record rainfall caused at least 100 deaths? Here are some of the factors that have […]