The US had ZTE pay $1.2 billion in fines in March 2017 for trade with Iran. The US government has banned American companies from selling components to China’s ZTE despite reaching a $1.2 billion settlement with the telecom giant in 2017 over trade with Iran. The US had ZTE pay $1.2 billion in fines in […]

Former US Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul Former US Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul says President Donald Trump will regret the day he allowed American neoconservatives to take over his foreign policy. Dr. Paul, a three-time American presidential candidate and the founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, which advocates for a […]

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian boy during clashes at a protest rally in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), December 15, 2017. (Photo by AP) The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs says Israel has issued some 50,000 orders for the so-called administrative detention against Palestinians since 1967, when the regime occupied Palestinian territories. The […]

File photo of Ugandan forces Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are reportedly recruiting thousands of African mercenaries to serve in their military adventurism overseas, including the bloody war on Yemen. Saudi sources told the al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper that the kingdom is likely using Chadian mercenaries in its operations abroad. They said the speculation had gained […]

Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno arrives at the airport for the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, April 12, 2018. (Photo by Reuters) Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno on Thursday gave a Colombian insurgent group 12 hours to prove that two journalists and their driver, kidnapped last month on their common border, are alive or their security […]

Pope Francis prays during a weekly general audience at St Peter’s square in the Vatican, on April 4, 2018. (Photo by AFP) Pope Francis says he has made “grave mistakes” in handling a sexual abuse scandal in Chile, expressing his wish to invite the abuse victims he had discredited to Rome to beg their forgiveness. […]

Party of European Socialists (PES) deputy secretary general Giacomo Filibeck is barred from entering the Philippines at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Mactan Island on April 15, 2018. The Philippines has barred entry to an EU party official critical of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drugs crackdown, in a move denounced by critics Monday as a […]

Protesters gathered in the Indian-controlled Kashmiri city of Srinagar to decry the brutal gang rape and murder of eight-year-old Muslim nomad Asifa Bano, and to demand the perpetrators be brought to justice. Kashmiri students hold placard during a protest calling for justice following the recent rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl. (AFP) Protesters […]

The file photo shows Mohammed Badie, a prominent leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. The Court of Cassation in Egypt has upheld a life sentence given to the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader Mohammed Badie, convicting him of “planning violent attacks”. The appeals court issued the ruling on Saturday as Badie has already been slapped with two […]

Planes prepare to take off as part of a joint airstrike operation by the British, French and US militaries in Syria in this still image from video footage obtained on April 14, 2018 from social media. (By Reuters) Egypt has voiced deep concern over the current military escalation in Syria, saying it threatens agreements on […]