German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for a coalition with the Free Democratic Party and Greens, saying it’s the best suited to govern the country.Speaking Saturday in Dresden to her party’s youth wing, Merkel said she’d hold talks with the pro-business FDP and left-leaning Greens and then present her Christian Democratic Union with a coalition […]

Russia will continue economic interaction with Iraqi Kurdistan in coordination with authorities in Baghdad, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Sputnik on Saturday.“We have been doing this, are doing and will be further doing this, but, for sure, in coordination with the Iraqi government,” Bogdanov said, commenting on future relations with Erbil.During the referendum […]

The European Union has been meeting more frequently with the UK’s opposition Labour Party as doubts grow over whether Prime Minister Theresa May will remain in her post through the conclusion of Brexit negotiations, the Daily Telegraph reported without saying where it got the information.As May brushed off calls from some Conservative Party members this […]

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday he would work towards a normalization of relations with Germany after months of mutual recriminations on a range of issues between the NATO allies.Already tense relations took a turn for the worse after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan launched a crackdown on his opponents following a failed coup […]

The death toll from raging California wildfires rose to 31 Thursday as body recovery teams used cadaver dogs to locate victims, making it the deadliest series of blazes in the state’s history.The fires, which began on Sunday, have swept through California, leaving thousands of people homeless and burning over 190,000 acres (76,000 hectares) of land, […]

Six Egyptian soldiers were killed on Friday when gunmen attacked a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula where Egypt is fighting an insurgency, an army statement said. Attacks targeting security forces have been common since Egypt’s Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was ousted in 2013 following mass protests against his rule, Reuters reported. “Armed terrorists attacked one […]

The US has announced it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the body of “anti-Israel bias”.Heather Nauert, US State Department spokesperson, said on Thursday the US would establish an “observer mission” to replace its representation at the Paris-based agency, Al Jazeera reported.In a statement announcing its withdrawal, Israel called […]

Turkey announced Friday it had deployed dozens of soldiers in the Syrian province of Idlib as part of its efforts to establish a de-escalation zone to stop fighting in the largely militant-controlled northwestern region.The deployment also appeared to be aimed at preventing the expansion of Syrian Kurdish militia backed by the United States, but considered […]

Rohingya Muslims are not native to Myanmar, the army chief told the US ambassador in a meeting in which he apparently did not address accusations of abuses by his men and said media was complicit in exaggerating the number of refugees fleeing.The UN human rights office said on Wednesday Myanmar forces had brutally driven out […]

Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation deal on Thursday after Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza, including the key Rafah border crossing, a decade after seizing the enclave in a civil war.The deal brokered by Egypt bridges a bitter gulf between the western-backed mainstream Fatah party of Palestinian President […]