Marathon talks on forming a coalition government in Germany have collapsed, plunging the eurozone’s largest economy into a political crisis and casting doubt on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fourth term. Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats Party (FDP) unexpectedly called off more than four weeks of coalition talks with Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc and ...
Read More »Siemens workers vow fightback against mass job cull in Germany
Hundreds of angry Siemens workers protested at the industrial behemoth’s historic Berlin factory Friday, in the first revolt against a mass jobs cull that unions have vowed to resist with all their might. “We are Siemens and we aren’t going anywhere,” the crowd chanted, a day after the firm announced ...
Read More »Gunmen kill 19 in southwestern Pakistan
Gunmen have killed 15 men and a police official and three of his family members in separate attacks in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan. Darmoon Bawani, an administrator in Turbat district, said the 15 men were killed in a mountain village and their bodies were found on Wednesday. The victims ranged ...
Read More »Many Villagers Left with Nothing after Earthquake in West Iran
SARPO-E ZAHAB (Tasnim) – A 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Iran’s western province of Kermanshah on Sunday night has killed more than 470 people, inflicting heavy damages on the rural areas near the city of Sarpol-e Zahab.
Read More »Over 25 thousands killed in 2016 by terror attacks: report
The number of people killed in extremist attacks declined for the second successive year in 2016 but more countries were affected, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) released Wednesday. (AFP) — Its report, produced by Australia’s Institute for Economics & Peace, found there were 25,673 deaths last year due to ...
Read More »Turkey condemns ‘escape’ of Raqqa Isis terrorists
Turkey on Wednesday condemned as “an extremely grave revelation” the potential escape of hundreds of terrorists from the Syrian city of Raqqa, saying it underscored the perils of Washington’s alliance with Kurdish fighters. (AFP) — The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said over 3,000 civilians had left Raqqa on October 14 ...
Read More »Israeli forces blow up Palestinian home, demolish another
The Israeli military has blown up the family home of a Palestinian man, who was killed earlier by its forces over an alleged stabbing attack. Amateur footage surfaced online on Tuesday, showing Israeli forces detonating the house, located in the occupied West Bank village of Beit Surik. In a similar ...
Read More »Wahhabis’ defeat in Syria caused ‘hysteria’ in Saudi dictatorship: UN envoy
Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari (Photo by AFP) Syria’s ambassador to the UN has slammed an anti-Damascus draft resolution recently proposed by Saudi Arabia and its allies, saying it reveals Saudi “hysteria” caused by the failure of its Wahhabi terror plot in the war-torn country. Bashar Ja’afari ...
Read More »At least eight militants, two Pakistani soldiers killed in shootout on Afghan border
At least eight militants have been shot dead and two Pakistani soldiers killed in a skirmish along the restive border with Afghanistan, the Pakistani army says. The military said in a statement on Monday that fierce clashes took place along the border in Bajaur in the tribal districts of northwest ...
Read More »Bomb in southwest Pakistan attack kills four, including senior police official
At least four people, including a senior police official, have been killed in a bomb attack in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Baluchistan, officials say. The deadly assault occurred in the provincial capital of Quetta on Thursday, when an assailant detonated an explosive vest as a police vehicle was passing ...
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