Pressure is growing for tougher gun-control laws in the US after a mass shooting at a Florida high school, with thousands of angry protesters demanding immediate action from lawmakers, and more demonstrations planned across the country in the weeks ahead. Organizers behind the Women’s March, an anti-Trump and female empowerment protest, called for a 17-minute, […]

Thirteen people were killed in southern Mexico when a minister’s helicopter crash-landed on its way to the epicenter of a powerful earthquake that rattled the region, officials said Saturday. The 7.2 magnitude quake caused only material damage when it struck late Friday, but it triggered a tragedy in the town of Santiago Jamiltepec in Oaxaca […]

A high-profile victim of a disgraced pedophile priest said Saturday he was glad to finally be able to tell his story as the Vatican’s top abuse investigator began a probe into an alleged cover-up in Chile. Pope Francis has come under fire for defending a bishop accused of orchestrating the cover-up. “For the first time […]

Yemeni forces launched a major retaliatory attack against Saudi-backed mercenaries in Saudi Arabia’s Najran, killing at least ten militants in the border region. It came after Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, on Friday managed to block a large march of Saudi mercenaries in the eastern parts of Alib Mountains in Najran, […]

Fireworks residue caused an explosion and fire at a garbage station in south China’s Guangdong Province on Saturday, killing nine people and injuring one, the local government said. The fire occurred after midnight on Saturday morning at a garbage collection station in a residential compound in Shijiao Township, Qingyuan City, the local government said, Xinhua […]

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Mexico on Friday (local time), triggering a prolonged rumble that the government said caused minor damage to buildings in the southern state of Oaxaca. A prolonged 7.2 magnitude quake that rocked Mexico on Friday left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in the capital and south but the […]

The Russian Foreign Minister  discussed with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry the latest developments in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Lavrov and Shoukry talked about the key political issues on the regional agenda, concentrating on the crisis in Syria. The statement added that the two […]

Germany’s Social Democrats start campaigning Saturday ahead of a party referendum that spells the last threat to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hopes of forming a new government, five months after inconclusive elections. In a vote expected to be tight, the more than 460,000 members of the deeply divided centre-left SPD will cast their ballots on a […]

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a speech in Beirut on Friday said that the United States is seeking to plunder the Syrian oil and gas in East Euphrates. He said the Trump administration is not ashamed to clearly announce that it is seeking to robe oil and gas riches in the Middle East […]

TEHRAN – A political analyst has blasted the U.S.’ double-standard policies towards Iran, saying the White House regards its own interests as a barometer of good and evil. Political commentator Yadollah Javani has, in an article published on the Persian-language Basirat news website, weighed in on Washington’s double standards vis-à-vis Iran and Iranian people. The […]