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France killed 33 militants in Mali on Saturday using attack helicopters, ground troops and a drone near the border with Mauritania where a group linked to al Qaeda operates, the French army said. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the operation in a speech to the French community in Ivory Coast’s …

More than 1,500 protesters have been arrested across India in the past 10 days, officials said, as police try to quell sometimes violent demonstrations against a citizenship law that critics say undermines the country’s secular constitution. Additionally, some 4,000 people have been detained and then released, the officials said. Those …

Iran, Malaysia, Turkey, and Qatar are considering trading among themselves in gold and through a barter system as a hedge against any future economic sanctions on them, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Saturday. At the end of an Islamic summit in Malaysia, Mahathir praised Iran and Qatar for …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday that Ankara would retaliate against potential U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian defense systems and a natural gas pipeline. U.S. Congress has moved to impose sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of S-400 defense systems from Russia and …

US President Donald Trump has demanded an immediate impeachment trial in the Senate, amid an impasse among Democrats and Republicans over when it may start. On Wednesday, the House impeached Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. But Democrats have refused to start the proceedings, arguing …

At least one person has been killed after a gunman opened fire near the headquarters of Russia’s main intelligence agency in Moscow, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported. At least five people were injured in the shooting near the Federal Security Service (FSB) building on Thursday, according to the …

Breathing masks are selling out in Sydney with the city enveloped in the smoke from bushfires sweeping across a large swath of Australia’s east coast, damaging the country’s clean and green reputation. Office workers wearing protective masks, previously a rarity, have become a common sight in recent weeks in downtown …

Authorities shut down the internet in parts of northern India on Friday and imposed a curfew in a southern city after two people died in clashes between police and stone-throwing protesters angered by a citizenship law that discriminates against Muslims. Protests have spread across India since the Hindu nationalist government …

The British parliament will vote on Boris Johnson’s deal to leave the European Union on Friday, a move the prime minister described as delivering on his promise to “get the Brexit vote wrapped up for Christmas” after his landslide election victory. After suffering several defeats in the previous parliament, Johnson …

President Donald Trump has called the approval of impeachment articles against him a “sham” and “a hoax,” and accused Democrats of “trivializing impeachment.” Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump said that he “wouldn’t mind” a drawn-out impeachment process, and would like to see the whistleblower whose …

Ankara is threatening retaliation against Washington if hit by sanctions. The warning comes as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on measures against Turkey over its procuring of Russian defense systems. “U.S. lawmakers must understand they will get nowhere with impositions,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday during a …

London, UK – As with many large cities across the world, pollution is a key factor in the quality of life of Londoners, tainting the air which people breath on a daily basis. The UK has recently failed to meet a World Health Organisation standard that limited the amount of …

Martin Griffith, the UN envoy to Yemen, warned on Friday of the danger of the collapse of the “Riyadh Agreement”, which was signed by the government of the resigned Hadi, with the so-called UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, after armed confrontations. At the same time, he stressed that the United Nations …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned of corporate migration from Germany due to a shortage of skilled workers. Merkel said in her weekly televised message on the Internet Saturday: “We know many workshops and factories that are urgently searching for skilled workforce … So it is necessary that we seek …

At least three members of the so-called civil defense group White Helmets have been killed while transporting a shipment of explosives inside an ambulance in Syria’s west-central province of Hama, amid reports that they are preparing to carry out terrorist and chemical attacks across the country in a bid to …

Qatar says there was “small progress” in talks with Saudi Arabia on healing their two-year rift at the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit held last week. There has been “small progress, just a little progress,” Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Saturday when asked …

Three Saudi soldiers have been killed near border with Yemen in what is believed to be retaliatory attacks launched by Yemeni fighters on the kingdom. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Saturday that one officer and two soldiers had been killed in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region. However, it  …

Today, Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the American accusations that Tehran was responsible for missile attacks on American military bases in Iraq. “Accusing Tehran of the Aramco attack and the attacks on American bases in Iraq are just false allegations, and the Americans will later realize that they are …

A Sudanese court has indicted the country’s former president Omar al-Bashir for corruption and illicit possession of sizeable amounts of foreign currency, sentencing him to two years in confinement. The sentence was issued on Saturday against the 75-year-old, who was the country’s head of state for three decades before being …

The House Judiciary Committee has approved impeachment charges against President Donald Trump with a vote strictly along party lines. The process is expected to advance to a full House vote next week. After debating articles of impeachment in a heated session on Thursday, the committee voted 23 to 17 to …