A Sydney man, aged 91, has been charged with importing cocaine. Although it is believed the man was the victim of a fraud, he can still be held accountable. According to the Australian Federal Police, the Epping man carried about 4.5kg of cocaine filled in 27 bars of soap, on a flight from New Delhi to Sydney on 8th July. The case ...

Three blasts, two of them suicide car bombs striking neighborhoods in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province killed at least 42 and more than 100 wounded on Monday night. These attacks claimed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, in a statement distributed on Twitter, saying Abdullah al-Ansai, an Iraqi fighter detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Huwaydah. Another blast ...

U.S.-led forces conducted 16 air strikes in Iraq and seven in Syria on Saturday against ISIS targets, the U.S. military said. In Iraq, five air strikes near Mosul, three near Ramadi and three near Sinjar aimed to beat back the militants, destroying excavators, tactical units, buildings and weapons, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Sunday in a statement. Other ...

A bomb attack at a police station in Istanbul early Monday morning injured five police officers and two civilians, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. The attack targeted the police station in Istanbul’s Sultanbeyli neighborhood and caused a fire that collapsed part of the three-story building, the agency reported. The explosion also damaged neighboring buildings and around 20 cars parked ...

By: Sam Nan Ted Cruz said that President of USA barack hussein obama  un Unwilling’ to Say the Words ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism, when asked how he would address the growth of ISIS. He also cited an unlikely counterexample: Let me contrast President Obama, who at the prayer breakfast essentially acted as an apologist. He said well gosh the crusades, the inquisitions … ...

Iraq’s prime minister unveiled a bold plan Sunday to abolish three vice presidential posts and the offices of three deputy premiers, hoping to cut spending amid mass protests against his government as ISIS still holds a third of his nation. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s Cabinet backed the plan, which still needs parliamentary approval, but it’s unclear whether it could end ...

Egyptians “People & Government” have rejected an offer by Qatar to mediate with the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, focus of a government crackdown since the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president in 2013. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ahmed Abu-Zeid said on Sunday that Egypt does not accept any external interference in its internal affairs, underlining that authorities have declared the Brotherhood a ...

South Australia’s unemployment rate could reach 9 per cent in the next six months, an economist has warned, after BHP Billiton announced it would axe about 380 jobs in the state. The mining giant has announced it will cut almost one tenth of its workforce at its Olympic Dam mine in outback South Australia, in what it calls “operational changes”. ...

New Speaker Tony Smith has called for “a better parliament” in a break with the “rude” and “loud” politics that have reigned over the House of Representatives. Mr Smith, addressing parliament after he was elected unopposed this morning, said there was “a mutual obligation” between the Speaker and his fellow MPs. “I want to say at the outset I will ...

As Turkey recently ‘joined’ the US assault on the IS militant group in Syria, their renewed attacks on PKK separatists have resulted in an end to a two-year peace treaty with the Kurdish Workers’ Party t looked like good news in the beginning, but the reality on the ground turned out to be different. The recent security arrangements between the ...