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A F/A-18E/F Super Hornets of Strike Fighter Attack Squadron 211 (VFA-211) is lined up for take off on the flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) aircraft carrier in the Gulf June 18, 2015. Reuters US and coalition forces targeted the Islamic State on Friday with 16 air strikes in Iraq and six in Syria, the US military said ...

Saudi Arabia on Saturday urged its citizens not to distribute “documents that might be faked” in an apparent response to WikiLeaks’ publication on Friday of more than 60,000 documents it says are secret Saudi diplomatic communications. The statement, made by the Foreign Ministry on its Twitter account, did not directly deny the documents’ authenticity. The released documents, which WikiLeaks said ...

Patricia Bailey prays at a makeshift memorial outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina June 20, 2015, three days after a mass shooting which left nine people dead during a bible study at the church. Reuters Mourners arrived in Charleston from around the United States on Saturday to pay their respects to nine black churchgoers killed ...

EU interior ministers are to discuss how to respond to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, with Italy threatening a strong response if no deal is reached. A key issue at the talks in Luxembourg is a plan to distribute asylum seekers more evenly across all 28 EU states. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said without agreement Italy would adopt a ...

EU interior ministers are to discuss how to respond to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, with Italy threatening a strong response if no deal is reached. A key issue at the talks in Luxembourg is a plan to distribute asylum seekers more evenly across all 28 EU states. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said without agreement Italy would adopt a ...

Greek shares fell for a third day after fears that it could leave the euro intensified and the French president warned there was “little time” to reach a deal on economic reforms. Shares on the Athens stock exchange fell by 1.3% in early trade. That was relatively benign compared with the two previous days’ falls of 4.7% and 5.9%. Ten-year ...

Djibouti, a small country on the Red Sea, is already home to military bases from the US and France, the former colonial power, but China’s interest is now becoming increasingly apparent. What makes this horn of Africa nation attractive to global military powers? Port in a storm Djibouti’s status as a model of stability in an otherwise volatile region is ...

China will complete a series of controversial land reclamation projects in the South China Sea “soon”, the foreign ministry says. The US and countries with competing claims in the area maintain that China is creating artificial islands to use as military bases. The ministry says they are for defence, but also maritime search and rescue, disaster relief and research. China ...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebel group in the Philippines has handed over its first batch of weapons as part of a peace process. The event in Maguindanao, in Mindanao, was attended by President Benigno Aquino who hailed it as an important step forward. Seventy-five weapons will be deactivated as a gesture of MILF’s commitment to peace. In 2012, ...

The main Shia opposition leader in Bahrain, Sheikh Ali Salman, has been jailed for four years for inciting violence, state media say. Sheikh Salman was convicted of inciting hatred, promoting disobedience and “insulting” public institutions. His al-Wefaq movement has accused the Sunni-led government of aggravating the country’s crisis with his sentencing. The Gulf state has grappled with sporadic unrest since ...