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Nigerian security forces have killed at least 20 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) during protests calling for the release of senior cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the movement’s leader, this week. Spokesmen for the IMN said on Friday clashes that erupted between police forces and protesters in the …

The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces says army troopers and allied fighters from Popular Committees have launched a string of airstrikes against military aircraft hangars in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region of Asir, using a squadron of domestically-manufactured Qasef-2K (Striker-2K) combat drones. Brigadier General Yahya Saree said the unmanned aerial vehicles …

The U.S. Senate will vote within days on whether to override President Donald Trump’s vetoes of legislation to block the sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday. McConnell said the Senate would hold the vote before Aug. 2, …

  Tunisia’s first freely elected President, Beji Caid Essebsi, has died aged 92, the country’s presidency says. He was the world’s oldest sitting president. He was admitted to hospital on Wednesday but officials did not say why he was receiving treatment. Mr Essebsi won Tunisia’s first free elections in 2014 …

Sudan’s military said on Wednesday that it had thwarted a coup attempt and arrested an unspecified number of senior officers in connection with a plot to restore the party of ousted President Omar al-Bashir to power. The ruling military council took over after the military ousted Bashir on April 11 …

Three massive asteroids are expected to pass by Earth today, with one of the approaching space rocks flying closer to our planet than the Moon, NASA has warned. Estimated at 360 feet wide, asteroid 2015 HM10 is expected to fly past our planet on Wednesday, according to NASA’s Center for …

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday that arrest warrants were issued for 11 ministers and ministerial-level officials suspected of corruption. A total of 1,367 cases of corruption have been referred to the integrity courts, with 4,117 cases not resolved yet in various government institutions, Mahdi told a …

Europeans have already been struggling with the heat this summer, but meteorologists warn that it’s going to get even hotter over the next few days. Widespread alerts warning of medium or high heat has been issued across many countries in Western, Central and even northeastern Europe. Weather forecasters in the …

Iraqi rapid response forces announced on Wednesday the capture of four Islamic State terrorists in Baghdad. The arrests were made in al Tarmiyah district in Baghdad as part of a military operation, which was launched earlier this week to cleanse Iraq’s northern provinces from Islamic State terrorists. The four IS …

Former special counsel Robert Mueller is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Kremlin. Despite claims that the probe would lead to high-level indictments that would end Trump’s presidency, Mueller’s probe failed to unearth any evidence of Trump’s …

Sri Lankan police have not found enough evidence to prove that Islamic State (IS) terrorists were directly involved with the Easter Sunday bombings, the chief investigator said on Wednesday, even though the group had claimed responsibility. The attacks on churches and hotels in Colombo and in the east killed more …

Several civilians have lost their lives and sustained injuries when Israeli fighter jets launched an airstrike against a strategic area in Syria’s southwestern province of Dara’a, north of the border with Jordan. The state-run al-Ikhbariyah Syria television news network said in a newsflash that the air raid took place early …

China warned on Wednesday that it was ready for war if there was any move toward Taiwan’s independence, accusing the United States of undermining global stability and denouncing its arms sales to the self-ruled island. The Pentagon said this month the U.S. State Department had approved sales of weapons requested …

Iran is ready for “just” negotiations but not if they mean surrender, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, without saying what talks he had in mind. Rouhani seemed to be referring to possible negotiations with the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal …

Facebook Inc will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and the social media giant will restructure its approach to privacy, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Wednesday. The FTC voted 3-2 along party lines to adopt the settlement, which …

Iraqi security forces in cooperation with Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are sweeping villages and farmland north of Baghdad as part of an operation aimed at clearing remaining terrorists belonging to the Daesh “Islamic State” group from around the country’s capital. A military helicopter flew over army units in the area …

The war in Yemen can be stopped because the warring sides and the international political consensus support a U.N. peace deal brokered in Stockholm last December, U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday. “I believe that this war in Yemen is eminently resolvable,” Griffiths told reporters in Geneva. “Both parties …

Israeli forces demolished a cluster of Palestinian homes near a military barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, in the face of protests and international criticism. Israel said the 10 apartment buildings, most of them still under construction, had been built illegally and posed a security risk to Israeli …

US Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, one of the four minority lawmakers targeted in President Donald Trump’s recent racisit tweets, has vowed to hold her ground and fight the Republican head of statement until he is impeached. “I’m not going nowhere, not until I impeach this President,” Tlaib said at the …

The revealing process of a mass grave has started at Tuesday morning in Al-Muthanna province (South of Iraq) where it contained dozens of Arabic & Kurdish children and women who were victims of the Saddam Hussein’s former regime. The mass grave includes 70 women and children, who were shot dead. …