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Smoke billows following an air-strike by Saudi-led coalition on May 11, 2015, in the capital Sanaa.

Yemen: Saudi-led Coalition Air Strike on School Kills Five including Two Children

An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a primary school in northern Yemen on Tuesday killed five people including two children, medical and military sources said. The headmaster and two other staff members were among those killed in the air raid in the district of Nihm, northeast of the ...

January 10, 2017

World

Dutch Journalists Slam MH17 Probe Results: Many Pieces Still at Crash Site

Two Dutch journalists slammed MH17 investigation, saying that many pieces were still at the site where the Malaysian plane crashed in eastern Ukraine. Just days ago, Michel Spekkers and Stefan Beck returned to Holland from eastern Ukraine where the two journalists had been gathering first-hand knowledge of the locals’ attitudes ...

January 10, 2017

World

Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry: Astana Ready to Host Syria Talks

Kazakh Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday the completion of preparations to host the Syrian negotiations under the auspices of Russia, Turkey, Iran and the United Nations. In an interview with Interfax news agency, Mukhtar Tellobrda, first deputy foreign minister, said: “Our country welcomes hosting the negotiations and we are ready to ...

January 10, 2017

Middle East

Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Party to Boycott Constitutional Reform Vote

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party is to boycott a parliamentary vote on a controversial new draft constitution aimed at giving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers, in protest over the arrest of its MPs. “We will not use our vote for this illegitimate reform while our deputies are unjustly under arrest and ...

January 10, 2017

World

Kremlin Says US Blacklist Additions another Move to Degrade Ties

The Kremlin deplored Tuesday the United States’ blacklisting of Russian figures as a move that further damages bilateral ties. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Washington’s decision to blacklist Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin, lawmaker Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, represented “further steps in the artificially created degradation of our ...

January 10, 2017

World

CIA Chief: Obama Administration Overestimated Political Consequences of Arab Spring

CIA Director John Brennan said the outgoing administration of US President Barack Obama overestimated the outcome of the Arab Spring, in expecting democracy to take root in the region. In an interview broadcast Monday on CNN, Brennan said that although the people in the region wanted individual freedom, “the concept ...

January 10, 2017

World

Russian Envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin

Russian Envoy to UN: Some SC Members Favor Fueling Syrian Conflict over Peace

Certain members of the UN Security Council are still fomenting the conflict in Syria and are seeking to oust the Syrian Bashar Assad’s government rather than ending the war, Russian Envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Tuesday. “Work on Syria inside the Security Council has never been easy. ...

January 10, 2017

Middle East

Iranians Bid Farewell to Ayatollah Rafsanjani

Huge crowds of mourners streamed into the streets of Tehran to pay their final respects to Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei led mass prayers for the body of Ayatollah Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president and chairman of the Expediency Council, who ...

January 10, 2017

World

Pakistan Successfully Test Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile

Pakistan reached a new milestone this week with the successful launch of a submarine cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, a demonstration of credible force for Islamabad to display against long-time neighboring rival India. The Babur-3 that was tested is a waterborne variant of Pakistan’s Babur-2, which the ...

January 10, 2017

Middle East

Iran Finally Received Official Saudi Hajj Invite: Official

Iran said Tuesday it had finally received an official invitation from Saudi Arabia for its pilgrims to attend this year’s hajj. The representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei for Hajj, Sayyed Ali Ghazi Askar, said on Monday that Iran had “officially received Saudi Arabia’s invitation to ...

January 10, 2017