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Queen Elizabeth II will host a showdown meeting with Prince Harry on Monday in an attempt to solve the crisis triggered by his bombshell announcement that he and wife Meghan were stepping back from the royal frontline. Other senior royals including Harry’s father Prince Charles and brother Prince William, with whom he has strained relations,…
Iran said on Saturday its armed forces “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed after taking off from Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard. President Hassan Rouhani said a military investigation had found “missiles fired due to human error” brought down the Boeing 737 on Wednesday, calling it an “unforgivable mistake”. The about-turn…
Iranian missile attacks on two Iraqi military bases housing American troops early Wednesday morning was a “slap on the face” to the U.S., Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech several hours after the strike. But “such military actions are not enough,” Khamenei said on Twitter shortly thereafter, suggesting further acts of…
Iran has declared that it will no longer abide by any of the restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal. In a statement, it said it would no longer observe limitations on its capacity for enrichment, the level of enrichment, the stock of enriched material, or research and development. The announcement followed a meeting of…
By Agencies Australia: Skies turned blood red above parts of southeast Australia on Sunday as residents sought refuge from deadly bushfires, and a senior firefighter described the previous 24 hours as “one of our worst days ever.” Photographs of Pambula, in the state of New South Wales, showed an eerie, smoke-filled landscape, with deserted streets…
Israel’s defence minister summoned the country’s military and security chiefs to Tel Aviv on Friday (Jan 3) in the wake of the US air strike that killed senior Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. As Iranian officials vowed revenge, the government of America’s closest ally in the Middle East gave no immediate public response to…
Iran’s most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq. Gen Soleimani and officials from Iran-backed militias were leaving Baghdad airport in two cars when they were hit by a US drone strike near a cargo area. The commander had reportedly flown in from Lebanon or Syria.…
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has told US President Donald Trump the he is no threat to him. Nkurunziza was on Thursday addressing a press conference at his new Gitega palace in Burundi’s Political Capital. Reacting to the Message Donald Trump sent to the US Congress, President Nkurunziza was adamant that Burundi couldn’t constitute any threat…
Five people have been sentenced to death over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but two top figures investigated over the killing have been exonerated, Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said Monday. Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor, was murdered in October last year in what Riyadh called a “rogue” operation, tipping the kingdom into one of its worst…
A Pakistani court has sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia for treason over his 2007 imposition of emergency rule. Such a verdict is a first in a country with a history of army rule. The military reacted angrily, saying legal process “seems to have been ignored”. The general seized power in…
