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WASHINGTON (Web Desk) Protesters heckled US homeland security chief Kirstjen Nielsen as she dined at a Washington restaurant late Tuesday, chanting ‘shame!’ repeatedly at the woman who has become the front-line defender of the Trump administration’s widely condemned practice of separating migrant children from their parents.Activists from Metro DC Democratic …

MEXICO CITY (Web Desk) Mexico strongly condemned US President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday for its policy of separating immigrant children and parents detained after crossing the US-Mexican border, calling it ‘inhuman.’In the name of the Mexican government and people, I want to express our most categorical and energetic condemnation of …

KABUL (Web Desk)  Taliban militants killed 30 members of the Afghan security forces in an ambush in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, the provincial governor said, their first major attack since a ceasefire for,the Eid al-Fitr holiday.The three-day Taliban ceasefire ended on Sunday. Provincial governor Abdul Qafoor Malikzai …

BEIJING (Web Desk) He said relations in the fields of politics, economy, industry, energy and investment is quite extensive and given the meetings held between the two presidents in Shanghai Summit, the relations will be noticeably expanded.Khaji described China’s role in following up talks which led to Joint Comprehensive Plan …

ROME (Web Desk) Enzo Moavero Milanesi, in a meeting with the visiting chairman of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Kamal Kharrazi in Rome on Tuesday evening, said the European Union’s (EU) stance is to completely support the JCPOA.As Milanesi said, the Iran Deal is an important agreement for nonproliferation …

BEIJING (Web Desk) China may look beyond tit-for-tat tariffs in the looming trade war with the United States, analysts say, with a range of creative options at its disposal, including targeting Hollywood films or dragging its feet on North Korea.Fears of a debilitating trade war between the United States and …

MOSCOW (Web Desk) Senior Research Officer, the 3rd Central Research Institute of the Russian Defence Ministry, A.P. Anisimov reported on the critical deficiencies of the modern Russian Uran-9 large, Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV).The Uran-9 UGV is a Russian modern combat unmanned vehicle (also called the Russian tank in miniature) designed …

MOGADAISU (Web Desk) Eight Kenyan soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack on Sunday in northern Wajir County, VOA News reported yesterday.The Kenyan security forces were patrolling the Kenya-Somali border when Al-Shabaab fighters launched an ambush using artillery and an improvised explosive device (IED).[Al-Shabab] started shooting at them and killed …

QUEBEC (Web Desk) Alexandre Bissonnette, who murdered six people at a Quebec City mosque last year, should spend the rest of his life in prison, the prosecution said Tuesday.Thomas Jacques told Justice Francois Huot that the 28-year-old should be sentenced to 150 years, 25 years for each victim in a …

PARIS (Web Desk) French Special Forces are on the ground in Yemen, French daily Le Figaro reported on Saturday.Le Figaro quoted unnamed military sources as saying that French Special Forces were fighting in Yemen alongside troops from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The French authorities, meanwhile, have yet to comment on …