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By Dan Lamothe President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, who has said that responding to “political Islam” is the major security issue facing the United States, to be secretary of defense. “We are going to appoint Mad Dog...

A list of 13 demands submitted by four Arab states to Qatar as a condition to lift their boycott on the Gulf country is "very provocative" because some items challenge Doha's sovereignty, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Monday. Gabriel told an event hosted...

By Shieu Fuh-sheng, Minister of Environment, R.O.C. (Taiwan) Climate change is impacting the world at an unprecedented rate. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continues to rise and global average temperatures have reached record highs....

Türkiye will introduce Israel to the world as a war criminal, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. Speaking at "Great Palestine Meeting," a pro-Palestine rally in Istanbul, Erdogan said: "Israel, we will also declare you as a...

By: Taiwan Today Taiwan Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaushieh Joseph Wu said that Taiwan wants to contribute to international society and expand cooperation and friendship with other democratic nations. Wu made the remarks...

By: TRT WORLD Cairo's "Summit for Peace" was meant to be a diplomatic breakthrough towards a ceasefire in Gaza, but its failure revealed what one analyst called the "fault lines" between Muslim, Arab countries and Western states on the...

By: ALJAZEERA Israel must stop bombing Gaza and killing civilians, French President Emmanuel Macron has told British media. There was “no legitimacy” for the bombing, Macron told the BBC in an interview published...

Officials say elite force targeted camp in Odisha near border with Andhra Pradesh where about 60 fighters had gathered. At least 18 Maoist fighters have been killed in a clash with police in eastern India, according to Indian security officials. They said members of Andhra Pradesh...

Taliban says it will allow Afghan women to work and study, assures media workers they will be protected The Taliban is promising to protect women’s rights and press freedom in the group’s first news conference following its stunning takeover of Afghanistan as the group’s co-founder...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Cigarette smoking may shorten the lifespan of people living with HIV more than the AIDS virus itself, a U.S. study said Thursday. "A person with HIV who consistently takes anti-HIV medicines but smokes is much more likely to die of...