US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida US April 17, 2018. (Photo by Reuters) US President Donald Trump has denied firing FBI director James Comey last year over the agency’s investigation of Russia’s alleged collusion with Trump’s election campaign before the 2016 US presidential election, contradicting the explanation he offered […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) and CIA director Mike Pompeo. US President Donald Trump has confirmed that CIA director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to Pyongyang for a secret meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong-un in North Korea last week. Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship […]

The photo shows Bahraini protesters in the village of Diraz. (Photo by Reuters) A court in Bahrain has sentenced 32 anti-regime activists to jail over their alleged role in an attack on a police station in the capital more than a year ago. The Fourth High Criminal Court handed down seven-year prison terms to 25 of […]

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 […]

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. […]

Armenian opposition supporters scatter during clashes with police at a rally in central Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, on April 16, 2018. (Photo by AFP) Tens of thousands of people in Armenia have taken to the streets in the capital, Yerevan, to protest the election by the parliament of former president Serzh Sargsyan as prime […]

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 […]

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 […]