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Amid continued opposition to his efforts to reform the economy, French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday defended his economic and fiscal policy which, he said, started bearing fruit. “The good news does not come by […]

– Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will not attend the 2020 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi announced on Monday. Speaking to reporters at […]

Three demonstrators were killed and dozens of protesters and security members were wounded in Baghdad and other cities on Monday, as anti-government protests flared over corruption, lack of jobs and public services, an Interior Ministry […]

French President Emmanuel Macron held a telephone conversation with Tunisian President Kais Saied on the results of Berlin conference on Libya and the development of the Libyan case. President Saied received a telephone call on […]

A committee of the Italian senate on Monday lifted immunity to former Interior Minister and senator Matteo Salvini, who faces charges of kidnapping for refusing to let over 100 rescued migrants disembark on Italian soil […]

A fire in a one-story wooden building in Russia’s Tomsk region has killed nine people, Sputnik quoted the regional department of the Emergencies Ministry on Tuesday.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says a special court should be formed to probe the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet that was mistakenly targeted by Iran forces just after takeoff, killing all 176 people aboard. […]

Queen’s University Belfast Thursday announced the appointment of U.S. politician Hillary Clinton as its new Chancellor. Clinton, who received an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast in October 2018, will become the university’s 11th and […]

At least ten people were killed on Tuesday night in an attack on a gendarmerie position in Djibo, a locality in the northern Soum province of Burkina Faso, security sources told Xinhua. The same sources […]

A military helicopter with 13 people on board was forced to land in a mountainous area of northern Taiwan Thursday morning with eight passengers killed and five rescued, the local authorities said. The wreckage of […]