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Bin Salman launches Saudi Arabia’s first nuclear plant project

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launches project to build the first nuclear research reactor in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has launched a project...

Iran’s Rouhani remains defiant, calls the US president ‘racist’

With US sanctions coming into effect against Iran, the national mood is one of defiance, with war games and the Iranian president hurling insults...

‘Halt rushed Rohingya repatriation,’ UN urges Myanmar, Bangladesh

Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed to start repatriating Rohingya to Rakhine state in November. Bangladesh and Myanmar should drop plans to start repatriating hundreds of thousands...

Justin Trudeau failing to bring justice for victims of ISIS: Conservatives

Ottawa, ON – The Honourable Michelle Rempel, Shadow Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, and Pierre Paul-Hus, Shadow Minister for Public Safety and Emergency...

Legislation better protects temporary foreign workers from exploitation

People coming to work in B.C. under the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program will have better protection against exploitation and abuse as a result...

Trudeau says Canadians ‘expect consequences’ for killing of Saudi journalist

Canada is weighing its options regarding the $15-billion contract to sell light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said “Canadians...

Erdogan calls for trial in Istanbul of Khashoggi suspects, terms death...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called for the trial in Istanbul of the Saudi suspects in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,...

Murder of Khashoggi a ‘heinous crime’: Saudi crown prince

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Wednesday denounced the murder of critic Jamal Khashoggi as a “heinous crime”, insisting the kingdom was cooperating with Turkish authorities...

Iran has ‘unclean hands’ in world court battle, US says

THE HAGUE: The United States accused Tehran Monday of having “unclean hands” as it fought an Iranian court bid to unfreeze billions of dollars...

Extremist rebels in Syria withdraw heavy arms in Idlib

BEIRUT: Extremist factions including Syria’s former Al-Qaeda branch have withdrawn heavy weapons from parts of a planned buffer zone in Idlib province, a monitor...

Imran Khan’s Saudi Arabia challenge

It was a first state visit by a Pakistani leader in years. It was also first foreign trip by Imran Khan as prime minister....

Turkey’s Erdogan vows to impose secure zones east of Euphrates in...

ISTANBUL: Turkey will take action east of the Euphrates river in Syria and impose secure zones as it has done in the northwest of...

Damascus shells Idlib after UN chief warns of ‘bloodbath’

Government forces shelled Syria’s last major rebel bastion on Wednesday, hours after UN chief Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council any full-blown offensive in...

Syrian men are just as likely to be victims of abuse,...

LONDON: Of all the many horrors of the war in Syria, it is the one least spoken about, even by its victims. Perhaps especially...

Iraq: Car bomb explosion kills at least 6 north of Baghdad

BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say a car bomb has exploded outside a restaurant north of Baghdad killing at least six people. Iraq’s Joint Operations Command says...

Turkey captures key suspect in deadly 2013 car-bombings

Turkey captured a key suspect in an attack five years ago that killed dozens of people, and he alleged the twin bombings were orchestrated...

Egypt’s Sunni authority: No excuse, all sexual harassment ‘forbidden’

The footage of the man parking his car and approaching a woman to go for a coffee went viral and drew wide-ranging reactions online Public...

Turkey alliance surviving Idlib test for now

President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have spearheaded an unlikely but so far sustained partnership to bring peace to Syria since...

Turkey crisis: Erdogan vows to boycott US electronics

Turkey’s president fired a new salvo in the growing war of words with the United States on Tuesday, saying Ankara will boycott all American-made...

Saudi-UAE air raids target Yemen’s Hodeidah

Saudi-UAE coalition air strikes on Yemen’s Hodeida province have killed and wounded several people, medical sources said. A spokesperson from the Houthi-affiliated health ministry said...