Tokyo – US President Donald Trump has hailed China for assisting the US in exerting pressure on North Korea. In an interview with Fox News aired on Tuesday, Trump talked about his strong relations with Chinese President Xi Jinping and explained the reason behind dropping his past criticism of the As
London – Britain’s Prince Harry has revealed that he sought counseling four years ago to deal with the grief of losing his mother, Princess Diana. In an interview with British newspaper The Telegraph, Prince Harry, 32, told the Telegraph newspaper that he sought counseling in his late tw
London- Cows in Germany benefit from a three-month maternity leave to take care of their offsprings. Head of De Oeko Melkburen, a dairy that produces organic milk and yoghurts, Hans Moeller says “every calf needs its mother”, therefore, he allowed his cows to have the maternity leave. He added that
An attack on security forces near Egypt’s St Catherine’s Monastery in south Sinai has killed at least one person and injured four, state television said on Tuesday. Security sources said it was carried out by gunmen on a police checkpoint several hundred meters from the church entrance.
Google on Tuesday launched a re-imagined version of its free Earth mapping service, weaving in storytelling and artificial intelligence and freeing it from apps. “This is our gift to the world,” Google Earth director Rebecca Moore said while giving AFP an early look at the new version of
Elite police agents made a qualitative arrest against two men in Marseille Tuesday on suspicion of planning an attack just days before the first round of France’s presidential election. The two suspects were captured with bomb-making materials and guns found in their possesion. Agents from Fra
This time four years ago David Moyes was about to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but today he is struggling to restore his tattered reputation at Sunderland where a significant proportion of supporters want him sacked. It has been quite a fall from grace for the former Everton, Unite
Listening to his campaign rhetoric, the last thing you would expect Donald Trump to do as president would be to escalate a ground war in the Middle East. He won the Republican nomination last year by campaigning against both George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and Barack Obama’s war in Libya. B
The Saudi-led Arab Coalition Forces Command backing Yemen’s legitimate government announced on Tuesday morning a Saudi Black Hawk helicopter crashed while on a mission in Marib. The Saudi Black Hawk “fell during operations in the province of Marib” east of Sanaa, the coalition said
Beirut – For two Syrian mothers on opposite sides of a two-year siege, their evacuation from the blockade was supposed to end their suffering, but that was not the case in wake of a bombing outside the city of Aleppo. Noha, a Shi’ite, and Samira, a Sunni, were besieged for nearly two years on
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim called on Tuesday the country’s opposition to respect the referendum result that grants the president sweeping powers. In an address to legislators from his ruling party on Tuesday, Yildirim said the people had voted to switch from a parliamentary to a presiden
Thousands of migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean over the long weekend, UN aid agencies said on Tuesday. They said that some 9,000 mainly African migrants were rescued after being put by smugglers in Libya onto unseaworthy boats heading toward Italy. The migrants, many from Nigeria and Senega
Cairo – Egyptian Security authorities announced it thwarted the biggest terrorist plot to target several churches and Christian Coptic officials in the governorates of the Delta following the two churches attack in Tanta and Alexandria. Security sources said that the terrorist cell that was arrested
North Korea’s Foreign Minister yearns for the former US President Barack Obama. He said in his latest statement that through his tweets and statements, President Donald Trump seems evil. Iran’s Supreme Leader shares the same feeling and believes Trump’s presidency is a bad turn of events. When the U
Kabul- US President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster met Afghan officials in Kabul on Sunday and said the new administration was weighing diplomatic, military and economic responses to its Taliban and ISIS enemies in Afghanistan. On Thursday, the US military dropped a GBU
Riyadh – Saudi Minister of Energy, Industry, and Mineral Resources Khaled al-Faleh announced the launch of the King Salman Renewable Energy Initiative, which consists of 30 projects to produce 10 gigawatts of renewable energy. During the Saudi Arabia Renewable Energy Investment Forum in Riyadh
London- The current Iranian President’s camp is racing to put multiple scenarios ahead of the date of the announcement by the Guardian Council of the Constitution on Thursday. Brother of former Iranian President Mohammed Hashemi Rafsanjani said Monday that President Hassan Rouhani may drop out in hi
A helicopter carrying 12 people crashed in eastern Turkey, security sources said on Tuesday. A Turkish police helicopter crashed in the province of Tunceli, but the cause of the crash was unknown, added the source. The helicopter disappeared 10 minutes after taking off from the town of Pulumur, in T
Prime Minister Theresa May “reluctantly” called on Tuesday for early elections in order to ensure a strong leadership for London’s exit negotiations from the European Union. The election has been set for June 8. May said that Britain’s opposition parties risked worsening her negotiating hand i
Washington – In parallel with the 2017 Spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the new director of the IMF Middle East and Central Asia Department and Lebanon’s former Finance Minister Jihad Azour will unveil a report on the economies in the Middle East, tackling
