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Germany has closed its embassy in Ankara and its general consulate in Istanbul because of the threat of a possible imminent attack, the foreign ministry has said.The ministry said the German school in Istanbul has also been shut due…

The Duke of Cambridge and heir to the throne Prince William has argued that commercial trophy hunting is justifiable in some cases.Prince William, who is president of United for Wildlife and patron of the Tusk Trust, said in an…

One suspect has been shot dead, officials say, and as many as two others are said to be on the run after a counter-terrorism raid in Brussels.The suspects were believed to have been barricaded in a flat after earlier firing shots at…

The European Union has agreed sanctions on three Libyan leaders who oppose a Western-backed unity government, clearing the way for travel bans and asset freezes to be imposed in the next few days, diplomats said.EU governments have…

Nearly 2 000 migrants and two corpses have been recovered from people smugglers' boats off Libya since Tuesday, Italy's coastguard said on Wednesday.Further rescue operations were ongoing, a spokesperson told AFP.The figures…

DESPITE PENTAGON EVASIONS, evidence is mounting that a U.S. airstrike against an ISIS training camp in Libya last month killed two Serbian diplomats who were being held at the site. The Pentagon erroneously believed that no civilians…

Misrata Central Hospital has announced that it will no longer carry out medical operations starting next Saturday, keeping only the emergency ones.The head of media and medical awareness bureau in the hospital, Abdulazeez Essa, said…

French anti-terrorism police arrested a small group of people with Islamist militant ties, suspecting one of them may have been planning an attack in Paris, France’s interior minister has said."We have information about one person…

Lucasfilm just got the boulder rolling again …Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford will be reteaming for another Indiana Jones movie, set for release in summer of 2019.Here’s the announcement:Indiana Jones will return to the…

Isis' persecution of Christians is not justified by Prophet Muhammed's teachings, according to a new study of his previously untranslated writings. Dr Craig Considine, a Professor at Rice University and the study author, says they…