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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, center, interacts with Rohingya Muslim children at Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. — AP

September 25, 2017

UN official: Global community must step up Rohingya aid

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Sunday that the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh is "the most urgent refugee emergency in the world" right now.Filipo Grandi told reporters in the Bangladeshi town of Cox's Bazar that the needs of the more than 430,000 people who have fled terrible violence in Myanmar over the last month are enormous and that the international ...

Yemen President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi speaks to world leaders at the 72nd United Nations (UN) General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City. — AFP

September 25, 2017

Military solution only option to Yemen crisis: Hadi

DUBAI — A solution to Yemen's two and-a-half year-old civil war will likely come through military rather than political means, the country's president said, blaming the Iran-aligned Houthis of obstructing chances of peace.Speaking in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi also told Al-Arabiya news channel that a plan to hand over control of the country's main port to a neutral party remained ...

Donald Trump

September 24, 2017

Trump casts doubt over Iran nuclear deal after missile test

Washington — President Donald Trump gave a stark warning Saturday that cast growing uncertainty over whether a nuclear deal clinched with Iran would survive after Iran tested a new medium-range missile.State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which was first displayed at a high-profile military parade in Tehran on Friday.It also carried in-flight video from the nose cone of the missile, which has a range of ...

Iraq's Minister for Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Al-Jaafari speaks during the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, at UN headquarters. — AP

September 24, 2017

Iraq seeks other nations' help to build a nuclear reactor

UNITED NATIONS — Iraq's foreign minister is asking nuclear countries for help building an atomic reactor for peaceful purposes, saying the country has a right to use atomic power peacefully.Ibrahim Al-Jaafari made the request in his speech Saturday to the UN General Assembly's annual meeting of presidents, prime ministers and monarchs. He called for assistance "to build a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes in Iraq, to acquire this nuclear technology."Former ...

A man looks at a banner supporting the referendum for independence of Kurdistan in Irbil, Iraq, on Sunday. — Reuters

September 24, 2017

Iran launches war games near Iraqi Kurdistan border

DUBAI — Iranian forces have launched war games in an area near the border with Iraq's Kurdistan region, Iran's state media reported on Sunday, a day before an independence referendum is to be held in the region.State broadcaster IRIB said the exercises, part of annual events held in Iran to mark the beginning of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, are centered in the Oshnavieh border region.The war games will include ...

Col. Mohammed Jaafar Al-Jundi

September 24, 2017

Yemeni official dies of torture-related injuries sustained in Houthi prison

Sanaa — A high-ranking Yemeni official who was detained by the Houthis for over a year died after his release due to injuries sustained in prison.The Yemeni police held Houthi militias and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh responsible for his death.“Col. Mohammed Jaafar Al-Jundi died of injuries sustained by Houthis’ torture,” a statement issued by the police department in Taiz said.Houthis kidnapped Jundi more than a year ...

Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York. — Reuters

September 24, 2017

Bahrain FM: We moved against Qatar over its support for terrorism

New York — Bahrain’s Foreign Minister told the United Nations General Assembly that his country took action against Qatar over the latter’s support and financing of terrorism.“Unfortunately, terrorism has become a tool of nations who use it to destabilize the world. We call for deterrence of states and organizations who support terrorism,” Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told world leaders at the UN in New York ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and his wife Elke Buedenbender, second right, queue up before casting their ballots at a polling station in Berlin during general elections on Sunday. — AFP

September 24, 2017

Germans warned against apathy as Merkel heads for fourth term

BERLIN — Germans were urged to vote in a national election on Sunday in which a seemingly assured fourth term for Chancellor Angela Merkel risks being overshadowed by a far-right party entering parliament in more than half a century.After shock election results last year, from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union to the election of US President Donald Trump, many look to Merkel to rally a bruised liberal Western ...

Members of rescue teams remove debris in the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico, on Monday. — Reuters

September 24, 2017

Deadly aftershock, volcanic ash spread alarm in Mexico

MEXICO CITY — A magnitude 6.2 aftershock that shook Mexico on Saturday was blamed for five deaths, spreading fear among anxious residents reeling from a string of natural disasters and interrupting the search for survivors from a bigger tremor earlier this week.The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City sent a column of ash into the sky, capping an intense period of seismic activity including two powerful tremors this month that ...

US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis speaks to the press at the Pentagon in Washington last week. — AFP

September 24, 2017

Fighter jets, drones on table as Mattis visits key ally India

NEW DELHI — Fighter jets, drone deals and shared concerns over Afghanistan’s security look set to dominate the agenda when US Defense Secretary James Mattis visits India this week.Mattis is scheduled to arrive late Monday and is set to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new defence minister, in the first visit by a top US official since Donald Trump became president in January.“The United States views India as ...

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