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High-profile campaign groups plan to hold protests in London next week against a visit to Britain by the powerful Saudi crown prince to raise alarm over Riyadh’s war crimes in Yemen and its human rights record. The protesters will gather outside Downing Street next Wednesday, when Mohammed bin Salman arrives …

A new analysis of meat plants across Britain has revealed major food safety and hygiene problems, further indicating that more than half of all audited plants have had at least one “major” violation in the past three years. Inspection statistics from the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) also show that …

“Car nation” Germany has surprised neighbours with a radical proposal to reduce road traffic by making public transport free, as Berlin scrambles to meet EU air pollution targets and avoid big fines. (The Guardian) — The move comes just over two years after Volkswagen’s devastating “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal unleashed a wave …

Syria’s army and its allies recently managed to foil a major US-Israeli plot for facilitating the transfer of thousands of terrorists to the Arab country’s Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a Syrian military source said. Speaking to Tasnim on Saturday on condition of anonymity, the source said Israeli warplanes had …

Iran is known as the most powerful country in the region, thanks to its domestic capabilities and reliance on people, unlike certain neighbors that have spent tens of billions of dollars on the purchase of foreign arms, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. Addressing a program at the University …

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May says she wants all European Union citizens lawfully living in Britain to remain after Brexit in 2019, promising a streamlined system for them to register to be able to stay. “They’ve made a huge contribution to our country, that’s why we want them and their …

The Russian military has announced that armed groups in Syria’s militant-held Eastern Ghouta are preventing civilians from exiting the conflict zone. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Russian military announced that talks aimed at peacefully resolving the situation in Eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus had broken down. “Calls by the Russian ceasefire …

Russia has flatly dismissed as “absurd” the indictment of 13 Russian nationals by the US Justice Department for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. “Thirteen people interfered in the US elections? Thirteen people against billions budgets of special agencies? Against intelligence and counter-espionage, against the newest technologies? Absurd? …

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says his peninsular Persian Gulf country has “preserved its sovereignty” months after a “futile” diplomatic blockade was imposed against Doha by a Saudi-led group of Arab states. “It has been a futile crisis manufactured by our neighbors, some of whom are major …

The United States will be a main absentee from plans to contribute to Iraq’s finances, US officials say as Baghdad seeks to rebuild the country following a devastating battle against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group. US officials at a donors’ conference held for Iraq’s reconstitution in Kuwait said Monday that …