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The president of Kyrgyzstan has intervened in a national debate about Kyrgyz identity, claiming “women in mini skirts don’t become suicide bombers.” In a country were 80% of the population is Muslim, President Atambayev criticized those […]

North Korea has issued a chilling warning to the US and South Korea threatening “real war” on its enemies “at any moment.” After months of sabre-rattling the threat level from the DPRK is at a three-year […]

Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning are treated as terrorists and criminals in U.S., but elsewhere in the world they are celebrated as heroes in the fight against corruption and global surveillance. A statue […]

The leader of ISIS in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a US drone strike. Hafiz Saeed Khan, along with senior lieutenants, was reportedly killed in an air strike on 26th July Mirror reports: […]

Russia has deployed its advanced S-400 air defense missile system to Crimea as tensions with Ukraine deepen. Russia’s Federal Security Service, said on Wednesday that it had foiled “terrorist acts” prepared by Ukrainian military intelligence […]

An Egyptian judo competitor refused to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent after losing a 100kg match at the Rio Olympics on Friday. TMZ reports: The Egyptian is Islam El Shehaby — who was […]

Vladimir Putin has deployed 32 Russian tanks in northern Crimea this week, in a buildup that suggests a war between the two countries is about to break out. Russia has closed its checkpoints along the Crimean […]

Turkey have announced plans to ditch the US dollar and pull out of NATO altogether, following a war of words between Ankara and the West on Thursday.  One day after NATO reminded Turkey that it […]

Evidence has emerged that the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer bribed its way into the Dominican Republic with the sale of Super Tucano aircraft being guaranteed after one million dollars was paid in bribes to Dominican military […]