
FOREIGN POLICY
Senate Dems block anti-refugee bill
Democrats at the US Senate have blocked a Republican-backed legislation against entry of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the country.

Democrats at the US Senate have blocked a Republican-backed legislation against entry of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the country.

US State Department officials hang Russian flag upside-down before a meeting between Russian FM Lavrov and his US counterpart Kerry.

Scientists say they have almost found the ninth planet of the solar system, a planet ten times bigger than the Earth.

UK doctors call for the removal of Israel from the World Medical Association over claims of torturing Palestinian patients.

The lawyer of a Muslim American says his client was framed as a Daesh affiliate by federal agents.

The Syrian Air Force has destroyed at least 1,662 Takfiri targets since the end of December.

The Kurdistan Regional Government has rejected a new report by Amnesty that Kurdish Peshmerga forces have demolished thousands of Arab houses.

The New York Police Department is on high alert following threats of a Daesh attack against cops.

Senator Bernie Sanders will win the White House since the US Empire needs “a kinder, gentler way to sell its wars,” an American writer says.

The US and its allies are stepping up their campaign against Daesh (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, Ash Carter says.

Turkey’s president blasts academics critical of Ankara’s anti-PKK campaign, saying they will pay the price.

Iran’s president expresses Tehran’s support for Iraq’s independence and sovereignty.

Moldovan protesters storm the parliament building against the appointment of Pavel Filip as the prime minister.

China’s energy giant, CNOOC, cuts its 2016 output for the first time in over a decade amid growing fears about China’s economic health.

Donald Trump trounces his rival Republican presidential candidates in yet another national poll.

Syria's opposition coalition names a Saudi-backed militant as its chief negotiator for peace talks.

Iran says its nuclear deal with the P5+1 proves that regional issues will be resolved through diplomacy.

Media reports in the UK say the houses of asylum seekers in the north-east of England are singled out by their red doors.