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Oct 25: A dispute between Iraq and Turkey has emerged as a dramatic geopolitical sideshow to the complicated military campaign to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, from Islamic State (IS). President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has insisted on a role in the battle for Mosul, trying to ramp up an involvement in Iraq that has already alarmed the Iraqi government. “We have a historical

Norway, Oct 24: Norway's integration minister has been widely mocked and asked to "reconsider her position" after telling the country's Muslims to adapt to the country's culture. Sylvi Listhaug, from the anti-immigrant Progress Party, caused fury and confusion on Monday when she posted on Facebook on the eve of a national integration conference. “I think those who come to Norway need to adapt to

Valletta, Oct 24: A light aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Malta on Monday, killing at least five people on board in the island nation's worst peacetime air accident, airport sources and witnesses said. Airport officials initially said the plane was believed to be carrying officials from EU border agency Frontex. The organisation put out a statement saying it had not deployed the plane

Lebanon, Oct 24: The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says the group's fighters will remain in neighboring Syria until they achieve the final victory over foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists and purge the crisis-hit Arab country of extremists. Addressing people in a speech marking a week since the killing of the movement's military commander, Hatem Hamade, in Syria

New Delhi, 22: The World Medical Association (WMA), the top medical-ethics body, on Friday installed an Indian doctor facing corruption charges as its president, despite controversy surrounding his appointment while legal cases are pending. A statement released by the WMA said Dr. Ketan Desai delivered his inaugural speech as president on Friday at the association's annual assembly in Taiwan. He

Washington, Oct 22: WikiLeaks has revealed US President Barack Obama's private email address by publishing hacked emails, in another potentially embarrassing document dump targeting the Democrats, a media report said. "WikiLeaks reveals first batch of US President Barack Obama emails sent via secret address," WikiLeaks, the Julian Assange-founded open secrets site, tweeted on Thursday — implying

Jeddah, Oct 21: Leading experts in Arab affairs, columnists and journalists feel that the race for the American presidential elections remains wide open and evenly poised. They described the outcome of the three presidential debates as inconclusive and unclear. For some, Hillary Clinton came out on top; for others Donald Trump, despite his brashness, managed to retain his appeal to his core base

Beijing, Oct 20: A campaign to boycott Chinese goods in India due to differences over India's bid for NSG membership and UN ban on JeM chief Masood Azhar will not have much "political effect" and will fail to "fundamentally change the bilateral trade ties, state-run Chinese media said today. Quoting Indian media reports, an article in the state-run Global Times said that "some politicians and

Nevada, Oct 20: Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected allegations that he has groped several women, accusing Hillary Clinton of manufacturing the charges by her campaign. "I believe," Trump said, "she got these people to step forward," accusing Hillary of running a "very sleazy campaign" and adding of the claims aired by several women dating back decades: "It was all fiction." Meanwhile, Democrat

Washington, Oct 18: In a first, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has beamed back ultraviolet images of Mars that unveils dynamic, previously invisible activities in the atmosphere of the red planet such as change in ozone levels over the seasons and formation of clouds. The images were taken by the Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph (IUVS) on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) - a