Philadelphia police pledged to release 911 tapes and police body camera footage ``in the near future'' in the shooting death of a Black man with a history of mental health problems, a death that prompted protests, widespread vandalism and an (...)
Top officials in Iran say the upcoming U.S. election doesn't matter, but nearly everyone else there seems to be holding their breath.
The race for the White House could mean another four years of President Donald Trump's ``maximum pressure'' (...)
Faced with a veto from the United States, the World Trade Organization has two unpalatable options for selecting its next leader - override its biggest paymaster with a vote or hope for a change of U.S. president and wait until he takes charge.
With (...)
The World Health Organization's Europe director said Thursday that the 54-country region has again reached a new weekly record for confirmed cases, with more than 1.5 confirmed last week and more than 10 million since the start of the (...)
Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of killing civilians by shelling cities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday, in an escalation of a month-long conflict over the mountain enclave that has defied three ceasefires.
Azerbaijan said 21 (...)
Armenia acknowledged overnight that Nagorno-Karabakh forces had withdrawn from a strategic town between the enclave and the Iranian border, an apparent military gain for Azerbaijan as a new US-brokered ceasefire failed to end a month of (...)
What a hullabaloo, what an uproar. Social media is ablaze with stories of political corruption in the US. Where is the novelty? What is so unique and unprecedented?
In politics, corruption is the norm, the daily sport of politicians.
This is clearly (...)
Ethiopia's leadership has a strange negotiating style, technically and diplomatically, on matters of life and death such as the mega dam it is building. The dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) peaked again following a phone call (...)
There is a certain precipitousness in efforts to peer into the unknown beyond 3 November. The effort is motivated by the weight the presidency has in the US political system and the weight of the US in the international order. That the electoral (...)
If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not exactly light the fuse that reignited hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia, he is less than keen to see the flames doused in the war that is now over a month old. He has committed hardware, (...)
While an agreement to normalise relations between Sudan and Israel was announced on 23 October, the joint military and civilian government in Khartoum will now have to show that Sudan has something to gain from it.
In late September, Sudanese (...)
The two sides of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) signed a permanent ceasefire agreement in Geneva last Sunday, spurring hopes of reviving the stalled political process and ending years of civil war. As the international community welcomed (...)
Almost a week ahead of the US presidential elections 3 November, Democratic candidate Joe Biden continues to lead polls against Republican rival and President Donald Trump. Biden enjoys an edge of nine percentage points (52 per cent to 43 per cent), (...)
Brokered by the US this time, a third ceasefire was agreed upon on Monday, at 08:00 AM local time, between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This ceasefire too was violated after only 45 minutes from its implementation time.
Meanwhile, US President Donald (...)
The Kremlin said on Monday that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's assessment of Russia as the biggest threat to U.S. national security was wrong and encouraged hatred of Russia.
The comments come just over a week before Biden faces (...)
The United States on Monday imposed fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic's oil sector, including the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, in Washington's latest action to increase pressure on Tehran.
The U.S. Treasury Department in (...)
An Israeli cabinet minister said on Sunday that a U.S. sale of advanced F-35 warplanes to Qatar could be possible despite Israel's objections to such a deal given the Gulf state's links to Iran and Palestinian Hamas.
“I have no doubt that if they (...)
Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.-brokered Sudan-Israel deal to normalise ties as "phoney" and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The deal agreed on (...)
New clashes broke out between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh a day after talks in Washington to try to end the deadliest fighting in the mountain enclave in more than a quarter of a century.
Azerbaijan's defence ministry (...)
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كشفت مقالة صادمة نشرتها شبكة CNN ضد الرئيس ترامب عن غير قصد كيف تمكنت جماعة الإخوان المسلمين من التلاعب بإدارة أوباما ووكالاتها الاستخباراتية، ومن خلال الوكالات المذكورة، نظام المحاكم الأمريكية.
شبكة "سي إن إن" قالت إن تحقيقًا منفصلًا (...)
Sudanese officials confirmed on Thursday that a senior US-Israeli delegation flew to Sudan on a private jet this week to wrap up a deal that would make Sudan the third Arab country to normalize ties with Israel this year.
Such a deal would deepen (...)
Ambassador of Switzerland to Iran Markus Leitner was summoned on Thursday to Iran's Foreign Ministry after the US issued claims about alleged attempts by Iran and Russia to influence American elections.
According to a report by official news agency (...)
Hopes of ending nearly a month of bloodshed in the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh were receding on Thursday as Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces fought new battles on the eve of talks in Washington.
Plans for U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (...)
Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pontiff while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary ``Francesco,'' which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival.
The papal thumbs-up came midway through the film (...)
