Riot police have used water cannons to prevent hundreds of protesters reaching the US embassy in Manila, just a few hours before the arrival of President Donald Trump in the Philippines for a regional summit and the last leg of his Asia tour.Carrying placards declaring “Dump Trump” and “Down with US Imperialism”, the left-wing protesters […]

US President Donald Trump took his verbal jousting with Kim Jong-Un to a new level Sunday, taunting the North Korean leader over his height and weight before musing over the idea of them eventually becoming friends.While they have never met, Trump and Kim have form when it comes to name-calling, with the US president a […]

The House of Saud regime, its King and absolute monarch Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and its inexperienced Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman who is also known as MBS, are making headlines more often than they used to. The gossip hovering over King Salman’s health, his probable Alzheimer’s disease and dismissing the Crown Prince to […]

As France prepares to mark the second anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has warned that the terrorist threat remains “very high,” with a number of “small groups” planning attacks.France has been on high alert since January 2015, when it was paralyzed by a series of the self-styled Islamic State-linked […]

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy visited Catalonia for the first time on Sunday since Madrid imposed direct rule on the region, a day after hundreds of thousands of Catalans marched to demand the release of jailed regional officials.His visit came two weeks after he dismissed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, his government and the parliament, suspended […]

An Iraqi official says mass graves found in an area recently retaken from the self-styled Islamic State group could contain up to 400 bodies. Kirkuk Governor Rakan Saed said Sunday that the bodies of civilians and security forces have been found in an abandoned base near Hawija, a northern town retaken in early October, AP […]

TEHRAN – Head of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee Mohammad Ali al-Houthi warned Riyadh about targeting the major Red Sea port of al-Hodeidah, west of Yemen, and vowed to revenge potential attacks. Mohammad Ali al-Houthi said that if Saudi Arabia target Hodeidah port and its coastal areas, “we will make unprecedented steps” against the country, the […]

German parties cited progress on Friday after three weeks of talks about a three-way coalition, with their leaders due to thrash out remaining differences over transport and climate on Sunday. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, which bled support to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Sept. 24 election, are trying to forge a coalition […]

Six members of Catalonia’s parliament, including speaker Carme Forcadell, were granted bail Thursday after testifying before Spain’s Supreme Court on charges of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation of public funds.Following the hearing, Supreme Court magistrate Pablo Llarena ordered that Forcadell be held in custody until she had paid bail, which was set at €150,000 ($175,000). The […]

Pope Francis, in some his strongest comments ever on nuclear weapons, said on Friday that the world should condemn not only their possible use but “their very possession”.The appeal came at the start of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament in Vatican City that has brought together 11 Nobel Peace Prize winners, as well as […]