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The recent violence between Palestinians and Israelis was triggered after Israel set up roadblocks in Palestinian neighborhoods of Israeli-occupied East al-Quds on August 26, to put restrictions on entries into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The second assailant was shot to death...

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the five dead included a woman but declined to comment on the likely motives or the identity of the gunman.

South Korea and Japan are major trading partners, and economic exchanges have largely continued throughout the diplomatic freeze, along with practical defense cooperation.

“Regardless of whether there has been a conviction or not, we continue to call for the government of Iran to drop all charges against Jason and release him immediately”, said spokesman John Kirby.

That emotion was understandable if slightly different to the terror which surely struck Conlan’s friends, family and supporters watching live on TV, while a stunned hush descended on the previously vocal crowd of Irish ex-pats in the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena.

Jason Rezaian, the Tehran correspondent for The Washington Post, has been convicted in an espionage trial deemed ridiculous by press freedom advocates. The journalist’s brother, Ali Rezaian, called it “disappointing” but “not surprising”.

A few experts on the Middle East have theorized that young people are being radicalized online and are acting as so-called lone wolves.

Cllr Philip Bicknell (Con, Park) was speaking shortly after the Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, confirmed late this morning that the Weald of Kent Grammar School in Tonbridge would be allowed to open a new site in Sevenoaks.

“Hello to all the people on [street] 72 from the airport, the streets of Maracaibo, from Zulia, from all of Venezuela who are waiting for me with love, passion in search of the better horizon of a better future for Venezuela”. Mr Chavez had called him a...

The Martian, starring Matt Damon, was released in theaters this past Friday. Credit should also be given to the score by Harry Gregson-Williams; for the vast majority of the run time it’s employed subtly, but in scenes where it needs to do more of the heavy lifting it is...

Defence Minister Martin Glvac said Slovakia would also send an undisclosed number of soldiers to fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member Hungary in connection with the migrant crisis.

They were turned away for being Pakistani.

Myanmar yesterday signed a ceasefire with eight ethnic minority armies in a step towards ending decades of civil war, a move weakened by the refusal of several other rebel groups to join the deal.

Trust also increases: PMPeople should have a right to question the government.

Myanmar’s 2015 general election will be held as scheduled on November 8, the country’s Union Election Commission said on Wednesday.