ANTWERP AFP March23, 2017  - Belgian security forces arrested a French national Thursday after he tried to drive into a crowd of shoppers at high speed in the port city of Antwerp, officials said.    Authorities found a rifle and blade

A controversial nationalist educator said under oath Thursday he had received a donation for his school from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe despite the premier’s repeated denials in an intensifying political scandal that has gripped the cou

A North Korean missile appeared to have exploded on Wednesday just after it was launched, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said after detecting the latest in a series of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed state that have alarmed the region.  

BEIRUT AFP March22, 2017- A fifth round of UN-backed Syria peace talks begins Thursday in Geneva with scant hope of a breakthrough against a backdrop of fighting in Damascus and no sign of compromise.   

There’s an old saying in sleep medicine: bedrooms are for slumber, sex and nothing else.  Nowadays, though, that idea is all but obsolete — thanks to the all-invading domination of smartphones, tablets and laptops. Yet a wealth of re

New Delhi (Hindustan Times), Mar 21, 2017 -   Delhi is the fake Capital with 66 colleges -- the highest for any state in India – offering engineering and other technical courses without the regulator’s permission. There are 279 such

REUTERS, 22nd MARCH, 2017 - Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye left prosecutors’ offices early on Wednesday after being questioned in an investigation into a corruption scandal that brought an early end to her political career.  

China will retaliate if India continues to be uneasy with Beijing’s increasing influence in south Asia and attempts to meddle in its diplomatic relations with countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka, Chinese state media warned on Tuesday.  

WASHINGTON - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday after a meeting at the White House that there are “better ways” for the United States to help beat back the Islamic State than sending combat troops.   

BERLIN - President Donald Trump’s first meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have resembled the comedic awkwardness of a Sasha Baron Cohen movie. But an unlikely star was born during the bizarre Trump and Merkel show.    K

Before FBI Director James Comey began his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, President Donald Trump was back, compulsively tweeting - and underscoring the growing perception that his allegation that President Barack Obama had Trump&rs

The Washington Post, March 20,2017    FBI Director James B. Comey acknowledged Monday that his agency is conducting an investigation into possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign in a counterintelligence probe that c

AFGHANISTAN, (Daily Mail, US) 19 March 2017 -   An Afghan soldier opened fire Sunday inside a base in the southern Helmand province, wounding three U.S. soldiers before being shot dead.   

WELLINGTON AFP March20, 2017- A US diplomat has been expelled from New Zealand after Washington refused to waive diplomatic immunity so police investigating a serious crime could question him, officials said Monday.   

FBI Director James Comey is expected to officially undercut President Donald Trump’s claims that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration during testimony before Congress on Monday, according to ABC News.   

TAIPEI AFP March20, 2017 - China is aiming advanced medium-range ballistic missiles at Taiwan as part of a growing military threat towards the island, Taipei’s defence minister said Monday. 

 (Daily Mail, Australia) 20 March 2017 -   Refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres will begin their application process for resettlement in the United States.   

Britain’s GCHQ (Britain’s communications intelligence agency ) issued a rare public statement dismissing White House  claims that the UK Intelligence agency may have helped Barack Obama  spy on Donald Trump. 

AL JINEH AFP March17, 2017-The US said it carried out an air strike in Syria against an Al-Qaeda meeting but denied deliberately targeting a mosque where a monitor said on Friday 46 people were killed.   

Syria’s army said on Friday it shot down an Israeli plane that had carried out pre-dawn raids on a military target near Palmyra, the famed desert city it recently recaptured from jihadists.   

SEOUL AFP March17, 2017   -The United States’ “strategic patience” with nuclear-armed North Korea is over, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in Seoul on Friday after visiting the Demilitarised Zone.   

COPENHAGEN REUTERS March 17   -Denmark will extradite to South Korea the daughter of the central figure in an influence-peddling scandal that led to the ouster of its president, the Danish public prosecutor said on Friday, but her lawyer said sh

British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to trigger Brexit this week by formally notifying the European Union of Britain’s intention to leave the bloc, sending her country into uncharted waters.   

DPA, 14th MARCH, 2017 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump will have to wait a few days because of severe weather in the Monday forecast for Washington.   

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she’ll start the legal process of preparing for a second independence referendum, threatening to open a new front in the Brexit battle as the British government prepares to  trigger negotiations

Preparations continued Monday across the Northeast for the arrival of what forecasters say will be the first major winter storm of the season, bringing with it dire warnings of blizzard conditions in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.   

In a crowded court just outside Delhi, the fate of 148 men caught up in a deadly labour dispute at India’s largest car maker has been decided in a case that has highlighted the unrest rippling across India’s industrial landscape.  

Turkish ministers have been forced out of Holland sparking mass riots on the streets of Rotterdam as protesters and police became embroiled in violent clashes. Many of those protesting were Turkish nationals living in the Netherlands. Water cannon we

SYRIA, UNICEF, 13.03.2017 -  UNICEF reported Monday, hundreds of children were killed in Syria in 2016, the most since UNICEF began keeping records.   

Addis Ababa, (Daily Mail, London), 13 March 2017 -   At least 46 people were killed and dozens more were hurt in a giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump outside the capital Addis Ababa.   The disaster flattened dozens of