Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said on Monday it would retaliate for the killing of prominent militant Samir Qantar in an Israeli air strike in Syria, after giving him an elaborate funeral in Beirut of the kind reserved for its top commanders. Thousands of people chanted “death to Israel” as Hezbollah fighters in military uniforms carried Qantar’s coffin, which was wrapped by ...

France and Russia have agreed to up efforts to share intelligence relating to ISIS after the countries vowed to cooperate militarily on the issue. “We have agree to strengthen our exchange of military information, both on the strikes and the location of the different groups (in Syria),” French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said following talks with Russian counterpart Sergei ...

FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation. He was introduced as “the elected president of FIFA” but the Sepp Blatter who sat in front of reporters shortly after receiving an eight-year ban from football appeared very different to the confident man who had led the ...

Refugees, who were formerly assessed as deserving of Australia’s protection, now fear they will be subjected to another assessment by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. The federal government is preparing to reassess their claims as it clears a backlog of 30,000 cases.   Some refugees have recently received letters from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) asking ...

The emergency warning for an out of control bushfire burning in Perth’s southeast has been downgraded to a “watch and act” as fire crews continue to battle bushfires in the area. Although fires have been reduced there is still a possible threat to lives and homes in Wattle Grove, Orange Grove, Forrestfield and Kenwick in the Shire of Kalamunda, and ...

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was dealt an eye-watering sucker punch by a teenager during a campaign event Wednesday. The young man got up close to the Prime Minister, reportedly asking to take a photograph, before unleashing his left fist into the side of Rajoy’s head. The punch knocked Rajoy’s glasses off of his face, leaving the leader of the ...

Kenya’s cholera epidemic has reached the world’s largest refugee camp and doctors worry the outbreak could continue to spread. Seven people have died in Dadaab, in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia, since the outbreak was declared in November, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, said in a statement. In the last three weeks, more than 300 ...

Russia will use more advanced military force against terror groups in Syria “if necessary,” President Vladimir Putin said Saturday. His comments came a day after the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution that supports an international effort to find a political solution to the 5-year-old civil war in Syria. Russia has supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but the United ...

North Korea sentenced a Canadian pastor Wednesday to life in prison “for subversive plots and activities,” according to its state news agency. The official news agency KCNA reported that the Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim “confessed to all heinous crimes he had committed.” The report accused Lim of having “committed anti-DPRK religious activities, conducted false propaganda among overseas Koreans, and took ...

An engineer at Mumbai airport died after being sucked into the engine of an Air India plane, the company said. The deadly incident happened late Wednesday as the Airbus A319 was being towed backward from the parking bay in preparation for taxiing out, said Anil Mehta, an Air India official. The engineer, Ravi Subramanian, was standing near the landing gear ...