DUBAI, May 22 (AP): The German government says Chancellor Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have discussed the situation in Iran in a joint telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Merkel's office said in a statement on Tuesday that the three leaders "underlined the need to persuade Iran to remain...
Read moreJAKARTA, May 22 (AP): Indonesian police say based on reports from hospitals six people have died in rioting in Jakarta a day after the presidential election results were announced.Police chief Tito Karnavian told a news conference authorities are still investigating the causes of death and are not ruling out the...
Read moreLONDON, May 22 (BBC): Omani author Jokha Alharthi has won this year's Man Booker International Prize - the first Arabic writer to do so.Her novel Celestial Bodies centres on the lives of three sisters and their families coming to terms with social changes in Oman.Judges described it as "a richly...
Read moreWASHINGTON, May 22 (New York Times): A district attorney in Utah is refusing to enforce a new law banning abortions after 18 weeks. In Colorado, the secretary of state is barring her staff from taking work-related trips to Alabama, a protest against that state's decision last week to set the...
Read moreBEIJING: China has recently delivered the first overhauled JF-17 Thunder fighter jet to Pakistan under a project that experts said would benefit Pakistan's aviation industry.Changsha 5712 Aircraft Industry Co Ltd under the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) reassembled the overhauled JF-17 and delivered it to its Pakistani client...
Read moreISTANBUL, May 22 (AFP): Istanbul's deposed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said Wednesday that no one believed the "lies" used to overturn his recent election and called on voters to "correct this great shame" in next month's re-run."Nobody believes their claims," Imamoglu said at a meeting in Istanbul to launch his re-election...
Read moreMOSCOW, May 22 (AP): The Russian military said al-Qaida-linked militants in northwestern Syria launched an attack on Syrian government forces on Tuesday, including with tanks.Maj. Gen. Viktor Kupchishin, the head of the Russian military's Reconciliation Center in Syria, said the Syrian army was fighting back against the offensive in Idlib...
Read moreHUALIEN, May 22 (AP): Taiwan's navy held a major live-fire exercise on Wednesday off the island's east coast in an area increasingly threatened by Chinese ships and planes.The drills are part of annual Han Kuang exercises that simulate an attack by China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory to...
Read moreANKARA, May 22 (AP): Turkey's defense minister says its military personnel are receiving training to operate the S-400 missile defence system despite US and NATO objections to Ankara's decision to purchase the Russian technology.Hulusi Akar also told a group of reporters late Tuesday that Turkey was "making preparations" and "considering...
Read morePalestinians open solar plant toreduce dependence on IsraelJERICHO, May 22: Palestinian officials say they have inaugurated their first solar panel plant as part of a plan to reduce their dependence on Israeli power supply. Mohammed Mustafa, head of the government's investment fund, says that Tuesday's plant opening in the ancient...
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