BEIRUT, (APP/AFP) – US-backed rebels advanced on a key Islamic State group supply line between Syria and Iraq overnight, seizing a small airbase near the border, a monitor said on Wednesday. The New Syrian Army said the operation — launched on Tuesday — is aimed at severing the supply line through the Albu Kamal crossing […]
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US-backed Syria rebels move on IS link to Iraq: monitor
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Cold kills homeless in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s richest city
SAO PAULO, (APP/AFP) – Even under three blankets, Marcio Carvalho can’t stop shaking as he seeks shelter on the streets of Brazil’s biggest and richest city, Sao Paulo. The teeming central streets of a city that is home to 20 million people are deserted at night except for members of the estimated 16,000 homeless population. […]
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Firebomb attack outside Australian mosque
SYDNEY,(APP/AFP) – A firebomb attack outside an Australian mosque while worshippers were at prayer was condemned Wednesday by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, with one Islamic leader calling it a “hate crime”. No one was injured in Tuesday night’s blast which destroyed a car parked outside a mosque and Islamic college in the Perth suburb of […]
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UN chief condemns deadly terrorist attack at international airport in Istanbul
UNITED NATIONS, (APP): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned Tuesday’s terrorist attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport, according to his spokesperson. “He expresses his deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims and to the Government and people of Turkey. He wishes a speedy recovery to those injured,” Ban’s spokesperson added in […]
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Netherlands, Italy to share UN Security Council Seat
UNITED NATIONS, (APP): After five rounds of inconclusive voting in the 193-member UN General Assembly, the Netherlands and Italy took the rare step Tuesday of agreeing to share a two-year seat on the U.N. Security Council, the world body’s power centre. The countries were tied with 95 votes each, with neither able to reach the […]
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US, S. Korea, Japan hold first anti-N. Korea missile drill
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – South Korea, Japan and the United States held an unprecedented trilateral missile defence exercise on Tuesday, aimed at countering the growing threat from nuclear-armed North Korea which denounced it as a “military provocation.” The drill in waters off Hawaii came less than a week after North Korea flight-tested a powerful new medium-range […]