A French policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in central Paris on Thursday night in an attack carried out days before presidential elections and quickly claimed by the Islamic State militant group.

WASHINGTON AFP April21, 2017- The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a US “priority,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday, as media reports indicated his office was preparing charges against the fugitive anti-hero.

Ganyliel (dpa) 21st APRIL, 2017- Every day, Maria Nyamuoka wades out up to her hips in the muddy water of the White Nile marshes, searching for water lilies to keep her family alive.  

REUTERS, 21st APRIL, 2017- Dozens of Japanese lawmakers, including one cabinet minister, visited a shrine to Japan’s war dead on Friday, in a move that could spark protests elsewhere in Asia where the shrine is regarded as a symbol of Japan&rsq

Caracas (dpa) 21st APRIL, 2017 - The international community on Thursday demanded that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on pro-government militias believed to be responsible for violence at protests across the country to stand down.  

akistan’s top court ordered the prime minister be investigated for corruption Thursday, in a highly anticipated decision that granted Nawaz Sharif a temporary reprieve as judges said there was insufficient evidence to oust him from power.  

A group of Kashmiri students at a private university in Rajasthan were on Wednesday allegedly called terrorists and beaten up by locals, upset over soldiers being targeted by stone-throwers in the strife-torn border state.   

A Russian government think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters´ faith in the American electoral system, three current and four former U.S. official

More than half of police officers in France have said they are voting for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s election because of her strong anti-terror stance.

An aircraft carrier the US said ten days ago was sailing to waters off the Korean Peninsula in response to Pyongyang’s recent missile launches was in fact heading in the opposite direction, the US armed forces admitted Tuesday.  

REUTERS, 19th APRIL, 2017- The United States on Tuesday held what it dubbed a historic U.N. Security Council meeting on the link between rights abuses and conflict, but dropped a push for the broad issue to become a council fixture after at least six

REUTERS, 19th APRIL, 2017- Polls closed after a mostly smooth vote on Wednesday in Jakarta’s divisive election between a Muslim and a Christian candidate that stoked religious tensions in the capital of the world’s third-largest democracy

REUTERS, 19th APRIL, 2017- Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced a military restructure of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to transform it into a leaner fighting force with improved joint operations capability, state media said.

REUTERS, 19th APRIL, 2017- Turkey’s main opposition began a battle on Tuesday to annul a referendum handing President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers, while the bar association and an international monitor said an illegal move by electoral a

North Korea has threatened to launch weekly missile tests after US Vice President Mike Pence warned that the ‘era of patience’ with Kim Jong-un is over.

AFP, 18th APRIL, 2017-Hundreds of students clashed with government forces in Indian Kashmir during protests against a police raid on a college, as tensions ran high in the restive region.  

DAILY MAIL, 18th APRIL, 2017-An Australian magazine has made bizarre claims that Kylie Minogue has been ‘quietly dating’ Prince Andrew for ‘several weeks’.  

REUTERS, 18th APRIL, 2017- Australia will abolish a temporary work visa popular with foreigners and replace it with a visa requiring better English-language and work skills, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday.   

Russian state television has no doubt who is unpredictable enough to bring the world to war in the North Korean crisis, and it’s not the reclusive communist dictator Kim Jong-Un.   

US Vice President Mike Pence used a visit to the heavily militarised border between the two Koreas on Monday to declare “all options are on the table” in dealing with Pyongyang, the day after the North’s latest failed missile test.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan narrowly won a referendum to expand presidential powers, which could keep him in office until 2029.  

(Daily Mail, Australia), 17.04.2017 - While Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon remains at the White House, there’s ample evidence that he’s been cast out of the president’s inner circle.  

REUTERS, 17th APRIL, 2017- South Korean prosecutors on Monday charged ousted president Park Geun-hye and Lotte Group chairman Shin Dong-bin with bribery in the latest twist to a corruption scandal that rocked the country for months.

REUTERS, 17th APRIL, 2017 - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Monday that diplomats from Russia...

A North Korean  missile “blew up almost immediately” on its test launch on Sunday, the  U.S. Pacific Command said, hours before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence  was due in South Korea for talks on the North’s increasin

REUTERS, 16th APRIL, 2017 - Tens of thousands  of people marched through midtown Manhattan and dozens of U.S. cities to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax  returns and to dispute his claim that the public does not care about

Rome (dpa) 16th APRIL, 2016 - Emma  Morano, a woman from north-western Italy who was recognized as the  world’s oldest person, died Saturday aged 117, Italian news reports  said.

REUTERS, 16th APRIL, 2017 - France and  Uzbekistan need to strengthen security cooperation in order to combat  jihadist groups and prevent violent attacks, French Foreign Minister  Jean-Marc Ayrault told Reuters on Saturday during a vi

REUTERS, 16th APRIL, 2017 - Pope Francis,  leading the world’s Roman Catholics into Easter, urged them on Saturday  not to ignore the plight of immigrants, the poor and other vulnerable  people.

The Washington Post, 11.04.2017 -  LUCCA, Italy — The Group of Seven industrialized nations on Tuesday urged Russia to pressurise the Syrian government to end the six-year civil war, but rejected a British call to impose new sanctions on M