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A shooting incident in the southern US state of Texas has led to a number of fatalities, local police said on Sunday.    Police officers from several cities and deputies from the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office were surrounding the Twin Peaks Restaurant, ...

A Soviet-made An-2 aircraft has gone missing in Lithuanian airspace and its two pilots have gone missing as a result of what the plane’s owner said was a possible shooting down of the craft.  A Soviet-made An-2 (NATO reporting name ...

Pro-Kiev forces continue building up heavy armaments in the zone of conflict, Eduard Basurin, a deputy chief commander of the corps at the Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People’s Republic told reporters on Wednesday. “Intelligence services of the DPR self-defense ...

Ukrainian troops have set up field depots holding up to 2,000 tons of munitions along the line of engagement with the DPR. Moreover, DPR reconnaissance has reported movement of Uragan and Grad multiple rocket launch systems, infantry combat vehicles, self-propelled ...

The visit of John Kerry looks like an attempt to tune down the conflict with Russia. The US is ready to admit the failure of the policy of “isolating Russia” and is looking for ways to back down. Without relinquishing ...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi rebuked US State Secretary John Kerry’s effort to limit what the US has called “manufacturing sovereignty” in the South China Sea. China refused to back down to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s demands that the country stops ...

An Egyptian court sentenced former president Mohamed Morsi to death for orchestrating a prison break during the 2011 uprising which brought him to power.   Egypt’s former President Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced to death on charges of masterminding a prison escape. The ...

A Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down a Syrian aircraft near the border between two countries, Turkish media reported Saturday.   A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Syrian aircraft with two rockets after the latter allegedly violated Turkey’s airspace near southern Hatay province, ...

Israel is offering illegal immigrants $3,500 and a one-way ticket home as it begins to crack down on refugees, who face prison if they don’t take up the deal. Rights groups are appalled at the move, saying Israel should be ...

The ICC is the KKK of international law. After years and years of only prosecuting Africans, many African nations have decided to pull out of the ICC and fund their own continental criminal court. This sends a sign to the ...