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An Iraqi court sentenced a Belgian man to death by hanging on Monday for being part of the Islamic State militant group, one of dozens of foreign nationals facing the death penalty in Iraq. Iraq has put hundreds of suspected members of the ultra-hardline group on trial, many of whom …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that the government would file a legal case in Iran against U.S. officials who imposed sanctions on the country as a precursor to action in international courts. Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television that U.S. sanctions had created difficulties …

Historic St. Sulpice church caught fire in Paris on Sunday. The blaze had damaged the main door as well as an internal staircase. Twenty firefighters arrived at the scene to put out the fire that had engulfed the church, which was completed in the 19th century, the French BFMTV reported …

According to media reports, armed men seized a military base in central Mali, leaving at least 16 soldiers killed. Gunmen attacked and briefly seized a Malian army base, killing at least 16 soldiers and destroying five vehicles in central Mali’s Mopti region, according to officials. According to an eyewitness, a …

At least 5 people were killed and another eight were injured after a train derailed due to an explosion of the railway track in Pakistan, the Dunya News broadcaster reported Sunday. The accident occurred near Nasirabad in the country’s southwestern province of Balochistan, according to the broadcaster. The rescue operation …

The US president and top defense officials have alleged that the Chinese military benefits from the work that Google is doing in China. Last year, Trump unleashed a large-scale trade war against Beijing, partly due to the alleged theft of US intellectual property. Google has pushed back accusations of helping …

Hundreds of thousands of people protested in central Algiers on Friday in the biggest demonstration against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s 20-year rule since unrest began last month. Protesters crammed streets and squares in the capital after Friday prayers, many draped in Algeria’s green, white and red flag. Demonstrations also took place …

Iraq has begun court proceedings against 14 suspected French members of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group captured by U.S.-backed forces and transferred to Iraq from Syria last month, two legal sources said. The men appeared before an investigative judge of Baghdad’s anti-terrorism court on March 6 in a procedural …

New Zealand is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean Terrorist hands attacked two mosques in Christchurch which is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand The first mosque is on Denis Street and the second one is on Lynwood Street. More than 49 Muslims …

There’s a fine line between being hailed as a visionary and being denounced as a crank, as Iraq-born physicist Jim Al-Khalili is only too aware. Seated in his office at the University of Surrey in the U.K. on a sunny day, he recalls a less tranquil time in his career, …

Boeing shares slumped almost 13 percent on after the second fatal crash of one of its 737 Max 8 planes. The sell-off wiped around $30bn (£23bn) wiped off Boeing’s valuation leaving the world’s largest plane manufacturer on track to record its biggest single-day trading fall in two decades as concerns …

Privacy lawyers for technology giants Google and Intel will testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to discuss consumer controls and opt-ins, the panel said in a statement released on Monday. The committee’s hearing will examine “the impact on competition and innovation” regarding the California Consumer Privacy Act …

The number of people dying as a result of air pollution may exceed the number killed by smoking, a major new study suggests. German researchers estimate that as many as 8.8 million deaths per year globally can be attributed to dirty air. In Europe alone they estimate there are more …

  Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition killed at least 22 civilians, including women and children, this week in a village in northern Yemen, the United Nations said. Medical sources quoted by the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen said late on Monday that the attacks in Kushar district, in Hajja …

A woman and her baby died after she attempted to deliver her baby herself by watching YouTube clips, as she feared being stigmatized for being a single mother, Indian police said. The 26-year-old unmarried woman was in the full-term of her pregnancy when she attempted self-delivery at her rented accommodation …

Zinedine Zidane has made a sensational return to Real Madrid, the club he suddenly departed 10 months ago, as Santiago Solari was sacked from his position as manager. Solari, who played 131 times for Real in La Liga between 2000 and 2005, was promoted from his role in charge of …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke a few Democratic hearts during a Q&A with the Washington Post Magazine on Monday when Ms. Pelosi said in definitive terms that she does not support pursuing impeachment of President Donald Trump. Ms. Pelosi, like many Democrats in leadership, has been reluctant to hop …

Tim Berners-Lee helped invent the world wide web 30 years ago. And he has consistently pointed out that the original dream that gave rise to it is under threat. It is exactly 30 years since Sir Tim submitted a paper to his colleagues at CERN, suggesting a way of sharing …

President Barham Salih received his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani at Al-Salam Palace in Baghdad on Monday. Rouhani who arrived this morning to Baghdad for a three-day official visit”. The two countries are set to sign a number of memorandums of understanding in various economic fields during this visit.

An Ethiopian Airlines jet has crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all on board. The airline said 149 passengers and eight crew members were on flight ET302 from the Ethiopian capital to Nairobi in Kenya. It said 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, eight Americans and seven British nationals were …