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A Moldovan court temporarily relieved President Igor Dodon of his duties on Sunday to allow a stand-in to call a snap election, deepening a standoff between rival political parties over the formation of a new government after months of deadlock. Dodon’s replacement, former prime minister Pavel Filip, immediately announced a …

A gun battle between supporters of India’s ruling right-wing party and a regional rival party has left four people dead and more than a dozen others injured in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Police and security forces said Sunday the clashes broke out in the eastern state, which …

Germany’s Parliament rejected on Thursday a bill by the right-wing Alternative for Germany party to ban Hezbollah’s all wings and consider it a terrorist group. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union Party, the Christian Social Union, the Social Democratic Party, the Left, the Greens and Free Democrats opposed the …

  Syrian Arab Army’s units operating in Hama eliminated terrorist groups , which attacked military points in the direction of Tal al-Jabin, Tal Melh in the northwestern countryside of Hama , in parallel with conducting concentrated strikes against the terrorists’ supply routes coming from Idlib southern countryside. The army units …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani highlighted the failure of US plots against the country, adding that “the enemies’ shift in tone” will not have any effect on the will of the nation and government. Rouhani made his remarks addressing a meeting between Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei …

Nasa is to allow tourists to visit the International Space Station from 2020. The US space agency said it would open the orbiting station to tourism and other business ventures. There will be up to two short private astronaut missions per year, said Robyn Gatens, the deputy director of the …

A rescue boat has overturned in the Atlantic off the west coast of France leaving three crew dead, amid winds of up to 129 km/h (80 mph). They were part of a crew of seven who had gone to the aid of another boat which had got into difficulty as …

Millions of Chinese high schoolers will set the country’s grueling two-day college entrance examination, known as the gaokao, this week. According to state news agency Xinhua, some 10 million students will take the test in 2019, competing to get into the country’s top universities amidst incredible pressure from their parents …

A Vietnamese environmental activist and blogger have been sentenced to six years in prison under the country’s new law that cracks down on online dissent. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, a 39-year old shrimp farmer from the southern town of Binh Dai, was arrested and tried for what state media described as …

Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer 6-3 6-4 6-2 to reach a 12th French Open final and end a five-match losing streak against the Swiss. Organizers must have been relieved the predicted rain in Paris stayed away but Mother Nature intervened in another way Friday, whipping up a huge breeze that …

Seventeen people were killed Thursday evening when a bus crashed into an overhead road sign in Dubai, according to police. The Omani-licensed vehicle was carrying 31 people when it crashed on Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, according to police. The driver, an Omani national in his 50s, is receiving …

Saudi authorities are likely to execute a teenager who has been held in pre-trial detention for almost four years, as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the kingdom. Murtaja Qureiris is currently being tried at a terror …

As if life was not bad enough for Adnan Kadhim – he lives in a slum where municipal authorities dump Baghdad’s rubbish – now someone is setting the waste on fire, making his children sick. As the United Nations marks World Environment Day on Wednesday, Iraq is suffering a pollution …

More than a dozen families from the Izadi minority group have repatriated to Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, after four years of displacement caused by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group’s occupation of their homeland and brutal atrocities committed against them. The media department of the Iraqi security forces said in …

Canada’s foreign ministry on Thursday said that Canadian citizens had been kidnapped in Ghana and that it was working closely with local authorities. The families of those abducted have been informed and they are receiving assistance, according to a statement from the ministry, which provided no further details. The foreign …

Iraq’s Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban told Reuters his country supported a rollover of a current deal between OPEC and its allies to curb oil output, adding that more serious measures should be taken in light of recent market developments. Ghadhban said the current deal to reduce output by 1.2 million …

  France’s weapons sales to Saudi Arabia rose 50 pct in 2018 despite the government calling for an end to the “dirty war” in Yemen, figures released on Tuesday showed. An annual government report showed that total arms sales rose 30 percent to 9.1 billion euros in 2018, driven by …

The Norwegian government has ordered a re-evaluation of a major project to transfer electricity to the United Kingdom amid growing uncertainties about Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. Norway’s oil and energy ministry said in a statement on Thursday that there was a need for the privately-owned NorthConnect to reassess …

There is a limit to human endurance and it is determined by the gut, not the mind or muscles, according to scientists. US and Scottish researchers studying humans involved in the most demanding physical feats, from running six marathons a week to pregnancy, have shown that the number of calories …

Embattled Chinese tech company Huawei has struck a deal to build Russia’s first 5G wireless network. The agreement with Russia’s largest carrier, MTS, was signed on the sidelines of talks in Moscow between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It comes at a critical time for the …