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New Zealand will call time on its non-combat mission in Iraq next month and bring home the last of its troops by mid-2020, according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Wellington deployed troops on a “behind-the-wire” training mission in 2015 to boost the ability of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly […]

The world’s leading producer of rare earth metals, China, reduced its exports of the minerals last month, according to the country’s official customs data. Stopping supplies to the US could cripple the American tech sector. Statistics show that China exported 3,639.5 metric tons of rare earths (which are a group of 17 chemical elements with […]

Click:paver block making machine The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has extended its ban on Russia, despite the country being readmitted to the World Anti-doping Agency more than six months ago. The IAAF ban on the Russian athletics federation (RUSAF) has been in place since November 2015, after allegations surfaced of widespread doping practices. […]

Israeli troops seized a foreign cargo ship off Haifa after an “unlisted passenger” began a rampage on board and attempted to set the vessel ablaze. The suspect has been arrested. The Panama-flagged container ship MSC Canberra had been anchored off a few kilometers away from Israel’s northern port of Haifa since Saturday afternoon. The vessel […]

US swimsuit model Kinsey Wolanski says she received “flirty private messages” from Liverpool players after her famous Champions League pitch invasion, incredibly vowing to do even more streaking to raise her profile. Busty blonde Wolanski, 22, turned heads around the world when she charged onto the pitch during last weekend’s Champions League final between Liverpool […]

A Moscow court has placed Ivan Golunov under two-month house arrest, siding with his defense. The investigative journalist stands accused of possessing illegal drugs with intent to supply. He denies all the allegations. Golunov, who works for Latvia-based Russian news outlet Meduza and specializes in anti-corruption investigations, was detained in Moscow on Thursday. Investigators say […]

French President Emmanuel Macron, who downplayed Europe’s differences with the US over Donald Trump’s Iran policies when meeting the US leader face to face, showed a lack of integrity, the speaker of the Iranian parliament said. President Macron’s remarks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump on Thursday in Caen, France were “amateurish and […]

More popular performers with little to no political experience are running for public offices in Ukraine, where comedian Volodymyr Zelensky managed to win the presidency two months ago. This year life in Ukraine has had many moments of mixing politics with show business. Zelensky, a professional actor and comedian with no record of public service, […]

Mexico has agreed to “immediately” start buying products from US farmers, said President Donald Trump in the wake of the deal the two nations signed amid a row over tariffs and immigration. The US’ southern neighbor has “agreed to immediately begin buying large quantities of agricultural products from our great patriot farmers,” Trump wrote on […]

Uncertainty over US-China trade tensions could hurt market confidence if not resolved soon, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Saturday. The Japanese official told reporters after the first day of the G20 meeting of finance leaders in Fukuoka, in southern Japan, that the global economy is facing many risks that might bring its growth […]