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‘NATO wants U-2 jets to spy on Russia’
A senior NATO general reportedly urges the US to send Cold War-time U-2 reconnaissance planes for spying on Russia

A senior NATO general reportedly urges the US to send Cold War-time U-2 reconnaissance planes for spying on Russia

An Egypt Air domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo has been hijacked and landed in Cyprus's Larnaca airport, state radio says.

Japan can now fight in foreign wars as reforms into its formerly pacifist constitution take effect.

A senior Iranian official says a Pakistani delegation is due in Iran for a high-profile gas deal.

Donald Trump is challenging neocons because he knows their policy of interventionism and regime change has failed, a political pundit says.

The Jordanian king has privately hinted that a Saudi-led coalition formed to purportedly fight terrorism is of a ceremonial nature.

The Israeli parliament gives an initial approval to the controversial bill designed to suspend Arab lawmakers.

Egyptian President Sisi sacks the country’s top auditor, who recently criticized the government for alleged corruption.

The FBI has successfully accessed data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, US officials say.

If Clinton and Trump are nominated, the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election would still be “difficult” to predict.

CIA director John Brennan went to Moscow to discuss the Syria crisis, a US official says.

The CIA took naked photographs of detainees it sent to its foreign partners for torture, a report says.

A plane carrying the Russian defense minister has been chased by NATO fighter jets over the neutral waters in the Baltic Sea.

A top aide to President Bashar al-Assad says if Syria had no border with Turkey, terrorists from around the world could not get to Syria.

China warned Japan after Tokyo switched on a radar station in the East China Sea.

The Turkish president censures a UK diplomat for posting a selfie with one of the journalists on trial for revealing Ankara’s role in arming militants in Syria.

Not long after US President Barack Obama paid a historic visit to Cuba, Fidel Castro says the Caribbean Sea nation doesn't need "gifts from the empire."

Watch footage of a huge blaze in a residential skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates city of Ajman.