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‘Comoros ready to take stateless Kuwaitis’
The Comoros says it is ready to receive the Kuwaiti stateless people if Kuwait makes such a request.

The Comoros says it is ready to receive the Kuwaiti stateless people if Kuwait makes such a request.

The US Navy will take ownership of its most advanced warship this week.

The European Union has been discussing a secret deal with Sudan to stop refugees from entering Europe, a report says.

Iran opens negotiations to sign a contract with Airbus to buy aircraft from the France-based plane maker, a senior Iranian official says.

Spain closes its airspace to the plane carrying British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond en route to Gibraltar.

The US president blasts Republican presidential candidate Trump over his call for a wall along the Mexican border.

Colombia’s FARC rebel group agrees to remove child soldiers from its ranks as part of peace talks with the government.

Hundreds of protesters march in Greece to express anger at government-proposed austerity measures.

Dozens of environment activists have been arrested in Washington.

At least four people sustain injuries in a bomb explosion in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

Several Latin American leaders have refused to recognize Brazil's new interim government.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is accused of exposing the EU to Turkish blackmail.

Thousands of Spanish people take to the streets of Madrid to mark the 5th anniversary of the establishment of an anti-austerity protest movement.

Saudi Arabia is planning to launch a new security surveillance center with hundreds of foreign-trained personnel, a report says.

US Democratic presidential candidate Sanders blasts the super delegate voting system in America.

It is not clear yet whether Donald Trump, if elected president, will turn against the Zionist lobby and Israel, an analyst says.

A small Swiss town has been left in a state of shock after learning that killer of an entire family in December was a soccer coach.

The leader of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah praises the role of martyrs in the battle against the “Zionist regime and terrorism.”