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Sudanese protest leaders have canceled planned talks with the country’s ruling generals as they visited a town where at least five school children were shot dead on Monday. The head of Sudan’s ruling military council had earlier said there must be immediate accountability over the shooting, state news agency SUNA …

Footage showing the oil tanker Stena Impero, which was detained by the Iranian authorities on Friday, has been published by the semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim. The video shows the vessel in the sea and is attributed to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN). The tanker is now …

US President Donald Trump on Saturday proposed a weekend meeting with Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea, an encounter North Korea said would be meaningful if it goes ahead. If Trump and Kim do meet, it will be for the third time in …

  President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday suggested Iran may be willing to hold talks if the United States showed it respect, but said Tehran would not be pressured into negotiations, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Iran and the United States have been drawn into starker confrontation in the past …

English premier league side Liverpool have produced one of the greatest Champions League comebacks in history after humiliating Spanish Giants Barcelona 4-nil in the semis at Anfield. The Catalan giants, who entered Tuesday encounter with a 3-0 first leg win, conceded the first goal after just 7 minutes when Divock …

Pakistan’s minister for science and technology has been mocked on Twitter after claiming that it was Pakistani space agency SUPARCO, not NASA, that launched the iconic Hubble telescope. Mistakes are an unavoidable part of life but this particular gaffe from Fawad Chaudhry left many people open-mouthed and totally bewildered. Speaking …

People in Spain have taken to the polls to cast their ballots in a general election largely overwhelmed by Catalonia’s push for independence and the rise of the far-right. Polls opened across Spain at 9 a.m. (7:00 GMT) on Sunday and are expected to close at 8 p.m. (18:00 GMT) …

Archaeologists on Friday unveiled a well preserved and finely painted tomb thought to be from the early Ptolemaic period near the Egyptian town of Sohag. The tomb was built for a man named Tutu and his wife, and is one of seven discovered in the area last October, when authorities …

Iraq’s President Barham Salih met  Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz on the sidelines of the Arab-European Summit. Salih highlighted Iraq’s keenness to enhance relations with the Kingdom and all neighboring countries in a way that serves the common interests. The President stressed that Iraq has adopted a policy of openness …

Fifteen Egyptian military personnel were killed or wounded in a clash on Saturday in North Sinai in which seven militants were also killed, the Egyptian military said. The breakdown of military casualties was not immediately clear. However, two security sources told Reuters that some of the injuries were serious.