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British energy major BP said Tuesday that it expected to take a $1.5-billion (€1.2-billion) hit from US President Donald Trump’s tax reforms. “The lowering of the US corporate income tax rate to 21 percent requires revaluation of BP’s US deferred tax assets and liabilities,” the company said in a statement. …

Apenas unos días después de dar a conocer a su primer misil anti-buque Al Mandeb 1, el Ejército yemení y Ansarulá han prometido respuestas violentas a los bombardeo salvajes e incesantes de ciudades y pueblos yemeníes. Durante las últimas dos semanas, Riad ha estado atacando implacablemente las ciudades de Sanaa, …

A high-ranking Iraqi military official says nearly a dozen Daesh Takfiri terrorists were killed when Iraqi Air Force fighter jets bombarded their positions in the country’s eastern province of Diyala near the border with Iran. Commander of Tigris Operations, Lieutenant General Mizher al-Azzawi, said on Sunday that 11 Daesh militants were …

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the Iranian people will deal with a “small and minority group” of rioters and lawbreakers exploiting the protests against economic conditions in a number of Iranian cities in recent days. Speaking in a meeting with a number of Iranian lawmakers on Monday, Rouhani said the nation …

Russia’s main domestic security agency says it has arrested an individual suspected of organizing and carrying out a bombing that injured 13 people in a Saint Petersburg supermarket this week. The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group claimed responsibility for the bombing that tore through the busy supermarket in Russia’s second largest …

Pope Francis has used the Christmas Eve Mass to call on the world not to ignore the plight of millions of refugees who are “driven from their land.” Leading a ceremony on Sunday for about 10,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican City, the head of the Roman …

A top commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, says the paramilitary group has deployed forces to the border with Syria in a bid to support army troops, who have come under militant fire from the war-torn country over the past three days. “After several Iraqi …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sent congratulatory messages to Pope Francis and other world leaders ahead of Christmas and the new Gregorian calendar year, expressing hope that the world would see the eradication of discrimination and poverty. In his message to Pope on Sunday, the Iranian president expressed his felicitations over …

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has clashed with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov over cyber attacks and other issues, pushing relations between London and Moscow to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. The tense comments were made at press conference in Moscow on Friday, the first …

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi announced a new deterrence equation in retaliation to the US-Saudi aggression, stressing that the range of missiles was expanding and the upper hand shall be for the Yemeni forces. Addressing Yemenis on Tuesday evening in a televised speech marking a thousand …