A senior Iranian military commander has confirmed that Tehran recently carried out a ballistic missile test, to the anger of the United States, the Fars news agency said on Tuesday. The Revolutionary Guards official’s comment came after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s assertion earlier this month that Iran had test-fired a missile capable of

COPENHAGEN -Demonstrations were held Monday in Denmark to protest plans by the government to send refuges and migrants to a remote island. On the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thousands of Danes and non-Danes thronged to protests in the nation’s capital and largest city Copenhagen and its second

An Egyptian lawyer says he and others have filed a court case to force the parliament to start a debate on amending a constitutional clause that bars President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi from running for a third term in 2022. Ayman Abdel-Hakim Ramadan told The Associated Press on Saturday that a Cairo court will hold its first

PARIS -A total of 118 people and 17 police officers were injured during Saturday’s Yellow Vest protests across France, the French Interior Minister said late Saturday. Around 125,000 people participated in the nationwide protests, said Interior Minister Christophe Castaner in a press meeting. Castaner said that 974 people were arrested during the protests. Security measures

Canada is committed to signing onto the United Nations pact on migration, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says, despite angry protest from right-wing political activists both here and abroad. Speaking from Marrakech, Morocco on Friday, where a UN summit on migration is to kick off next week, said the Global Compact on Migration is an important

A senior US official yesterday met President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House in Nairobi for talks on deepening bilateral ties. Assistant Secretary for Bureau of African Affairs Tibor Nagy is in Nairobi to, among other issues, discuss strategic partnership, regional security, trade and investment.Operations against Al Shabaab will feature in the meetings between Nagy and

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he will nominate State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert as the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN). Heather Nauert, 48, was an American journalist at Fox News and has been the government official spokesperson for the United States Department of State since April 24, 2017. Before then she

Human rights and migrant welfare groups are urging Greece to scrap its part of a deal between the European Union and Turkey, designed to reduce unchecked migration to Europe from the east. In a statement on Dec. 6, a total of 20 groups sharply criticized the winter living conditions in Greece’s eastern Aegean island migrant

WASHINGTON –A group of Republican and Democratic senators defied the White House on Wednesday and introduced a resolution that would hold Saudi Arabia’s crown prince accountable for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The resolution was introduced by Republicans Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio and Todd Young and Democrats Dianne Feinstein, Ed Markey and Christopher Coons. The

Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, has received a written invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to attend an annual Gulf Arab summit being held in Riyadh on Dec. 9, the Qatar News Agency said on Tuesday. Qatar is locked in a bitter dispute with Saudi Arabia that has fractured the six-nation Gulf