Iraqi Forces Advance in Mosul
The troops captured Ibn Sina hospital, part of the sprawling medical complex in the Shafaa neighbourhood, the officers added. Iraqi commanders have said they know they are running out of time with a...
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Five Arab states cut ties with Qatar
The move came just two weeks after US President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia and vowed to improve ties with both Riyadh and Cairo to combat terrorism and contain Iran . The statement sai...
Kuwait urges Qatar emir to exercise restraint
Saudi Arabia , Egypt , United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed diplomatic relations with Qatar in a coordinated move. Meanwhile, Pakistan has no immediate plans to cut diplomatic ties with Q...
London attack: investigation continues as Britain responds to another blow
President Donald Trump is again attacking London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Twitter . "I did my bit, I know a lot of other people did their bit but the authorities did not do their bit", he said . "I...
Iran says it can send food to Qatar by sea
Saudi Arabia also said Qatari troops would be removed from the ongoing war in Yemen . The three countries have also banned their citizens from travelling to Qatar . Five Arab countries have cut ...
Sudan expresses concern over Arab-Qatar rift, offers to mediate
Five Arab countries have accused Qatar of supporting terrorism and cut diplomatic ties with the Persian Gulf nation, triggering the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years. Rankine-Galloway sa...
Donald Trump is still going after the mayor of London
An indefinite halt to entry from Syrian refugees was replaced by a temporary pause. "At a time when anti-Semitic hate crimes are on the rise - when Americans, Muslims, African-Americans, Latinos are...
Ambassador Kislyak Doing His Job, Had No 'Sessions' With US Officials - Putin
The routine job of an ambassador - do you think that from all over the world or from the United States, the ambassador reports to me every day who he meets with or what they discuss there?" This is no...
Arab states cut Qatar ties in major diplomatic crisis
The current and former US officials said they were unable to identify precisely what may have triggered the four countries' coordinated decision to cut ties, which was later followed by Yemen, Libya...
Macron to visit India for world solar alliance meet
On Chinese objections to India's entry to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), Ms Swaraj said India's friends like Russian Federation should also speak to the Chinese over the matter. "We will raise...
Saudi, Egypt ban Qatari airplanes from using airspace
Saudi Arabia , Egypt , the United Arab Emirates , Yemen and Bahrain have come together to denounce Qatar after they refused to support a US - Saudi led call to stand against Iran . Etihad Airwa...
Vladimir Putin hits back about claims over Donald Trump and US election
The entire interview can be seen Sunday at 7pm ET on Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly . Putin noted that executives from perhaps 100 American companies were now in Russian Federation. "We didn't have any...
Jeremy Corbyn On BBC Question Time Pressed On The Nuclear Issue
Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election in April when she was riding high in opinion polls, hoping for a landslide win on a par with the era-defining victories of Mrs Margar...
Trump slams 'watered down travel ban'
That claim about vetting may come as news to the justices. NY lawyer George T. Conway III says Trump's Monday tweets taking aim at the Justice Department "may make some ppl feel better", but won...
Manila casino attacker was jobless man in huge debt
Albayalde suggested he set fires as a diversionary tactic and his next move was to try to get out. He is said to have accumulated a debt of over PHP4 million (US$81,000) due to his gambling addictio...
French President Emmanuel Macron says Paris climate agreement irreversible
So why the hysteria now, since the Paris agreement , like Kyoto, places demands on the developed world, led by the USA, that it does not on the developing world, led by China? "Americans will honor...
Korea agree to share info on North
He said the scope and effect of these activities differed from those of other countries in the nature of militarisation, China's "blatant disregard" for worldwide law, its contempt for other nations' ...
New Jersey set to vote to replace unpopular Christie
Jon Corzine, another Goldman Sachs alumnus who, like Murphy, donated to local New Jersey Democratic parties. Murphy also enjoys support from both New Jersey and national Democratic leaders. They als...
This Year's French Open Will Have a First-Time Grand Slam Champion
Muguruza might be the defending champion but Mladenovic is one of the most in-form players of 2017 so far on the WTA Tour and with the support of the crowd, the Spaniard is set to have a tough time on...
ITV: Sturgeon sees independence from United Kingdom by 2025
Miss Sturgeon said her timetable for holding a second vote on Scottish independence is "as it's always been" - between autumn 2018 and spring 2019. Survation carried out the survey of 1,024 Scots ...
Man arrested over note found in Australian airliner toilet
The arrested passenger was said to be calm throughout the flight. Passengers on-board the Virgin flight told The Border Mail that "cabin crew started yelling "get out, run, run, run", before the d...
Pakistan rejects Afghanistan's allegations about Kabul attack
State Department official revealed, "Eleven U.S. citizen contract personnel were injured in the attack in Kabul ". Afghanistan's intelligence agency blamed the Taliban-allied Haqqani Network for ...
London attackers named by police as profiles emerge
British police on Monday identified two of the three men who killed seven people during a weekend terror attack - including one man who came to England from Pakistan with his asylum-seeking parents....
Report suggests Russia hackers breached voting software firm
The report says Russian intelligence agency also conducted phishing attacks against several government agencies and attempted to impede requests for absentee voting ballots. "I never thought this ...
London Hospitals Were Prepared for Attacks
Thousands gathered on the banks of the River Thames to pay their respects, a few hundred yards away from where three militants rammed into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revellers on S...
India's most powerful rocket launches satellite into orbit
The successful assumes significance as India can now launch 4-ton class of satellites of foreign countries. Following the USA sanctions, ISRO started the Cryogenic Upper Stage Project in April 1994 an...
Donald Trump's 'Covfefe' tweet: These are the most hilarious desi Twitter reactions
And the US President seemed to have taken pleasure from confounding them as netizens went nuts immediately with theories of its meaning alongside the flood of jokes and memes about the odd phrase: "De...
Five killed in shooting at Florida workplace
The shooting occurred one week before the first anniversary of the mass shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, where 49 people died. Several events commemorating the massacre at the gay club are s...
Theresa May facing resignation calls over police cuts
Asked about these cuts following a speech given on Monday morning, May denied claims that the police force in Britain is underfunded. Last night Corbyn accused May of attempting to "protect the ...
General Election poll predicts shock defeat for Theresa May
The Pound declined overnight against all of the 16 most actively traded currencies, as election jitters resurfaced following a poll that showed the Conservative Party may miss winning a majority n...
