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Iraq will prevent attacks on Turkey: Abadi Reuters, BaghdadIraq’s armed forces have instructions to prevent “foreign fighters” from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey, Iraqi Prime...
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Turkey, EU fail to reach any ‘concrete solutions’ in talks
AFP, Varna :The EU on Monday said it failed any “concrete solutions or compromises” with Turkey in talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeking to...
Trump administration adds citizenship question to 2020 census
Reuters, Washington :The Trump administration said late Monday it will ask people if they are citizens during the 2020 Census, at the request of the...
Jimmy Carter calls Trump’s hiring of John Bolton his ‘worst mistake’ yet HuffPost
In a CBS interview scheduled to air Tuesday, Jimmy Carter did not mince words when denouncing President Donald Trump’s decision to hire John Bolton as...
Indian scandal brews over claim Modi’s app ships data abroad
AP, Ahmedabad :Allegations that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official smartphone app is shipping Indians’ personal data to servers abroad have morphed into a political...
41 children among 64 killed in Russian shopping mall fire
Reuters, Moscow :At least 64 people, including 41 children, have been killed in a blaze that engulfed a shopping mall in a Russian industrial city,...
Iowa family died of gas asphyxiation at Mexican resort
AP, Mexico City :Autopsies indicate an Iowa couple and their two children died from inhaling toxic gas at a rented condo on Mexico’s Caribbean coast,...
China air force drills again in South China Sea, Western Pacific
Reuters, Beijing :China’s air force has held another round of drills in the disputed South China Sea and the Western Pacific after passing though Japan’s...
N Korea ‘real threat’, urges int’l co-operation: Obama
AFP, Tokyo :North Korea poses a “real threat” whose solution will require international co-operation, former US President Barack Obama said Sunday on a visit to...
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Russia denies aiding Afghan TalibanReuters, Kabul Russia has rejected comments by NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan that it has been supporting and even supplying weapons...
Police, politicians accused of joining Sri Lanka’s anti-Muslim riots
Reuters, Kandy :Police and politicians backed by the country’s former strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined anti-Muslim riots that rocked Sri Lanka’s Kandy district this month,...
As Vatican and China talk, Taiwan looks on nervously
Reuters, Vatican City :Five blocks from the Vatican, on the bustling, tourist-packed street leading to St. Peter’s Basilica, a Taiwanese flag flutters from the window...