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The United Nations (UN) and the Catholic Church say the government and indigenous groups in Ecuador have agreed to hold talks for the first time to end the crisis engulfing the Latin American country over fuel subsidy cuts. The UN office in Ecuador and the Church said in a statement …

US President Donald Trump has promised to work with both parties in Congress to hit Turkey with “powerful sanctions,” after Ankara’s military launched a much-criticized operation against Kurdish militias in northern Syria. Dealing with @LindseyGrahamSC and many members of Congress, including Democrats, about imposing powerful Sanctions on Turkey. Treasury is …

Japan has deployed tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers after one of the strongest storms in years hit, killing at least 23 people. Typhoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo on Saturday, moving north and bringing severe flooding. Seventeen people are missing from the storm, public broadcaster NHK …

  Nearly 800 women and children affiliated with Isis escaped from a camp in northern Syria on Sunday, Kurdish officials said. An estimated 785 people are reported to have fled amid a Turkish offensive in the area, with many in the severely depleted Kurdish guard force forced to leave their …

Tunisian polling stations opened on Sunday in a run-off that will resolve presidential elections between media magnate Nabil Karoui and retired law professor Kais Said. The first presidential round, in which 26 candidates competed, saw what was termed an “electoral earthquake” following a “vote of punishment” by voters against representatives …

Something went terribly wrong during the construction of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans after a huge section of the unfinished building collapsed on the adjacent street causing injuries, destruction and one death. A video from a car, which stopped on a crossing nearby, caught the building falling apart, …

Thousands of people, some shouting “Erdogan terrorist”, took to the streets of Paris and other European cities on Saturday in protest at the Turkish assault on Kurds in Syria. Protesters marching under the Kurdish green, red and yellow flag waved placards reading “Trump = serial killer” or “the true leader …

Negotiators from the UK and EU are having what has been described as “intense technical discussions” in an attempt to agree on a new Brexit deal. About a dozen British officials, including the UK’s EU adviser David Frost, are taking part in the talks at the EU Commission in Brussels. …

Egyptian media sources reported that seven soldiers of the security forces were injured after two simultaneous bombings in Rafah and Bir al-Abd towns in northern Sinai. Egyptian security and medical sources said that “the first explosion occurred in Rafah during an armored sweep of the area west of the city, …

U.S. President Donald Trump defended his attorney Rudy Giuliani on Saturday as a “legendary crime buster” and “wonderful lawyer” after a media report that prosecutors are investigating whether the former New York mayor broke lobbying laws in his dealings in Ukraine. “So now they are after the legendary ‘crime buster’ …

Seven people have been killed in attacks by Takfiri terrorists in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno. Late on Friday, terrorists raided a military post in the town of Gajiganna, triggering a fierce gunfight, local residents and pro-government militias said on Saturday. “The gunmen killed two soldiers and a civilian during …

At least 16 worshipers were killed and two others seriously injured as a mosque was attacked in the Western African state of Burkina Faso, the security sources said. A group of unidentified gunmen opened fire inside a mosque in the village of Salmossi in the northern province of Oudalan, according …

Police in the French city of Toulouse have deployed tear gas and water cannon as Yellow Vest protesters took to the streets for the 48th weekend of mass demonstrations across France. The city in the south of France has routinely been the scene of large anti-government rallies for the political …

Four people were killed and five seriously injured in a shooting in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. The incident took place at a private club on Utica Avenue. Gunfire broke out shortly after 7 am at the club, according to the New York Fire Department. The venue, which bills itself as …

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday that several Islamic State (IS) detainees managed to escape a prison in northern Syria as the region is being challenged by the Turkish offensive. SDF’s Cooperation and Military Operations Center released the footage from a CCTV camera showing several people, allegedly …

Japan has been engulfed by heavy rain and strong winds as what is feared to be the worst storm for six decades batters the country and approaches Tokyo. Rivers swelled, boats flipped over and seas were whipped up by Typhoon Hagibis. The storm is expected to hit the capital later …

A massive column of black smoke has risen from a train station in Saudi Arabia’s city of Jeddah. The Haramain high-speed railway connects Islam’s holy cities of Mecca and Medina and is crucial for facilitating annual pilgrimages. There have been no reports of casualties as yet, and the possible cause …

Violence gripped the notoriously overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos as rioters trashed fire trucks and clashed with police after a fire broke out. A woman and a child were killed. The first fire started at around 4:45 pm on Sunday, some 400 meters from the …

Sanaa has released 290 prisoners, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), including 42 survivors of the bombing of a detention center last month. The head of the prisoners’ committee in Yemen, Abdul Qader al-Murtada, had earlier confirmed that Sanaa would release 350 prisoners, including three Saudis …

Heavy rains have killed at least 113 people in India’s Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states over the past three days, officials said on Monday, as floodwaters swamped a major city, inundated hospital wards and forced the evacuation of inmates from jail. India’s monsoon season that begins in June usually starts …