On Thursday, the Taliban claimed responsibility for “a powerful suicide truck bomb that devastated a hospital in southern Afghanistan, ….killing 20 people and wounding 97 others,… while a deadly drone strike in the country’s east MORE
TOKYO — When Miki Dezaki decided to make a documentary for his graduate thesis, he examined a question that reverberates through Japanese politics: Why, 75 years later, does a small but vocal group of MORE
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran on Wednesday of having carried out an “act of war” with aerial strikes on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia last weekend, and he said the United States was MORE
source–DutchReview In 2018, the NTR [the independent Dutch public service broadcaster] announced that no original – totally black – Pieten would be allowed. Despite this, people still turned up wearing black paint on their faces. MORE
Via Twitter, Trump has ordered new sanctions on Iran but did not specify what they would be. The tweet comes after Iranian news agencies reported that Iran issued a warning to the United States stating MORE
Although the race is neck and neck between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his challenger Benny Gantz, it appears PM Netanyahu has failed “to win enough seats (61) to form a coalition government with MORE
A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted a campaign rally by President Ashraf Ghani in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding 31. Ghani was present at the venue but MORE
ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl asked Trump several questions regarding possible U.S. retaliatory attacks on Iran if the country did, indeed, launch a drone attacks on two, Saudi oil processing facilities Saturday. Trump said MORE
Article 370 from India’s constitution was nixed by India’s Hindu nationalist president, Ram Nath Kovind, on August 5, 2019. It enshrined autonomy of the formerly princely state of Jammu and Kashmir with limited India control of the region. MORE
Iran rejected accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting world energy supplies and warned on Sunday that U.S. bases and aircraft carriers in the region were in range of its missiles. MORE
Saudi Arabia’s oil production and exports have been disrupted, said three sources familiar with the matter, after drone attacks on two Aramco plants on Saturday, including the world’s biggest oil processing facility. Source:
A negotiating team from the Taliban arrived Friday in Russia, a representative told The Associated Press, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump declared dead a deal with the insurgent group in Afghanistan. Russian state MORE
Kenya on Friday became the third country to start routinely inoculating infants against malaria, using the world’s first vaccine to combat a disease that kills 800 children globally every day. “This is the most advanced MORE
A nursing home doctor has been acquitted of the murder of an elderly woman with severe dementia following a closely watched euthanasia trial in the Netherlands. The court in The Hague concluded on Wednesday that MORE
Donato Toma, the President of Molise, Italy will give people €700 ($769.65 US dollar) per month to relocate to villages in the area that have less than 2,000 people. Residents who take the president up MORE
A rocket exploded at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan just minutes into Wednesday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States, but officials at the compound declared all-clear about an hour later and MORE
Scottish appeal court judges have declared Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament in the run-up to the October Brexit deadline is unlawful. MORE
Infighting and divisions at nationalist party Forum voor Democratie (Forum for Democracy) have cost the new grouping major support, according to a string of opinion polls. MORE
Source: GATINEAU, Quebec — Along the coast of the United States, people who lost homes to Hurricane Dorian are preparing to rebuild. But Canada — which has faced devastating flooding of its own — is MORE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he may annex the Jordan Valley and other parts of the occupied West Bank “in coordination” with the United States — a move that risks shattering the MORE
You really do have to ask: “What would Republicans have done if President Barack Obama had invited the Taliban to Camp David days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11?” They would have denounced him, called MORE
After claiming it’ss willing to resume talks on “nuclear diplomacy” with the United States, North Korea launched two projectiles into the sea. According to The Associated Press, “South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the MORE
President Donald Trump said Saturday that Taliban leaders were to travel to the US for secret peace talks this weekend but that the meeting has been canceled and he’s called off peace talks with the MORE
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean independence icon turned authoritarian leader, has died aged 95. Mr Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in a military coup in 2017 MORE
The House of Lords has agreed to get the Benn bill ruling out a no-deal Brexit through all stages of parliament before it is suspended by Boris Johnson. MORE