ANKARA, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Turkish court dismissed Friday the Mavi Marmara raid case, a thorny issue that strained Turkish-Israeli relations, acquitting all of the Israeli suspects accused of killing 10 Turkish activists on international waters, Turkish Daily Sabah reported. Last week, the prosecutor in the case asked the court to drop the charges against […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked a Goldman Sachs executive to head the White House National Economic Council, local media reported Friday. Gary Cohn, Goldman’s president and chief operating officer, has been offered the director of the key economic council to coordinate domestic and international economic issues across the Trump’s […]

LAGOS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — A total of 56 people lost their lives and 177 others were injured in Friday’s twin blasts that hit a crowded market in northeast Nigeria, a local official said Saturday. Yusuf Muhammed, chairman of the local government of Madagali, a district in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa, told reporters […]

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — Different sides in South Korea have called for efforts to end the political chaos and minimize the vacuum of state affairs, after the National Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly passed a motion to impeach scandal-scarred President Park Geun-hye. “For the past months, the state affairs have been virtually paralyzed. Since the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — UN Secretary-General Designate Antonio Guterres will take his oath of office on Dec. 12 at a special meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), UNGA President’s spokesperson Dan Thomas told reporters here on Friday. The meeting will pay tribute to outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and to administer the […]

DAMASCUS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — The international intervention in Syria was until last year under the hood, with what analysts called a proxy war. The proxy war is still ongoing, but in 2016 the super powers have become more personally involved in Syria’s nearly six-year-old conflict. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT OF TURKEY Since the beginning of the […]

LONDON, Dec. 8 (NsNewsWire) — British Prime Minister Theresa May won a battle over her Brexit strategy in parliament’s House of Commons on Wednesday night. MPs voted by 461 votes to 89 — a margin of 372 in a non-binding motion to support a proposal that will see politicians backing May’s plan to invoke Article […]

WELLINGTON, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) — Finance Minister Bill English was set Thursday to become New Zealand’s next prime minister when the last remaining contender for the job pulled out of the race. Rival and Health Minister Jonathan Coleman conceded defeat and congratulated English after 30 of the ruling center-right National Party’s 59-strong Parliamentary caucus publically […]