US refuses Baghdad request to discuss Iraq troop withdrawal
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi meets with US Ambassador to Iraq Matthew Tueller in Baghdad, Iraq January 6, 2020. (Reuters) AP January 10, 2020...
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Zelenskyy demands evidence as western world claims jet was downed
Members of the International Red Crescent collect bodies of victims around the wreckage after a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed in Iran [Abedin/Taherkenareh] by...
Has the time come for US-Iran negotiations?
Ali Mamouri The barrage of missiles that Iran fired at US bases in Iraq Jan. 8 frightened Iraqis in the middle of the night....
Iraqi PM tells US to decide mechanism for troop withdrawal
AP January 10, 2020 BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi has told the U.S. secretary of state to send a delegation to...
Iran denies missile hit plane, asks West to share data
If the West were to present incontrovertible evidence against Iran, it could have a dramatic impact on public opinion in Iran Published Jan 10, 2020,...
Science history: Al-Khwarizmi, master of maths
Influential Persian composed the oldest works on arithmetic and algebra. Al-Khwarizmi featured on a stamp released by the then USSR in 1983 to mark what...
Stunning display of strength rocks India as a fifth of the population goes on strike
Steve Sweeney Members of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions during a country-wide strike in Hyderabad ABOUT a fifth of the India’s huge population are...
Somalia should be wary of the Chinese trap
Debt diplomacy By Amina Hassan In the 2018 Summit of the Forum on China Africa Cooperation, the cornerstone of China’s investment and lending on the...
Hong Kong police ‘hack into more than 3,700 mobile phones seized from protesters’
Activist Joshua Wong alleges that police hacked his phone and used its contents as evidence against him Evie Breese @Evie_Breese Hong Kong police have hacked...
DP Ruto shows his ‘might and influence’ in Central region
DP William Ruto (centre) with other leaders during the funeral ceremony of Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua’s mother Martha Gachagua in Nyeri County on Tuesday. PHOTO...