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It was reported that the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson will meet European Union President, Ursula von der Leyen in London on Wednesday ahead of the opening rounds of trade talks that will commence immediately Britain formally leaves the European Union on 31 January 2020. According to the report, the two leaders would discuss whether
Iran’s supreme leader appointed the deputy commander of the Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, as the replacement for General Qassem Soleimani, head of Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after he was killed on Friday in an airstrike carried out by the United States military near Baghdad’s International Airport. The Iranian
Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Paris reported that a man was shot dead on Friday, 3 January after he tried to stab several people in a public park in Villejuif city near Paris. According to the report, the knife-wielding man killed one person and injured at least two others. The attacker died shortly after
Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Athens reported that the leaders of Greece (Kyriakos Mitsotakis), Israel (Benjamin Netanyahu) and Cyprus (Nicos Anastasiades) met on Thursday, 2 January 2020 in Athens to sign Eastmed gas pipeline deal worth about $6 billion, a 1,900 km (1,180 mile) subsea pipeline that would carry natural gas from the eastern
In order to support the embattled United Nations-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya, the Turkish Parliament has approved a bill on Thursday, 2 January to deploy soldiers to Libya. The UN-recognised government in Tripoli is facing a new threat from the renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar to wrest control in Tripoli. According to
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Viewers Corner News correspondent in Ankara learned that Turkey has arrested 124 people suspected of having links with the Islamic state group. According to the report, at least 33 foreigners were arrested in Ankara in a joint operation by the country’s anti-terrorism police and the national intelligence agency. Also 31 houses were raided by police
The ex-Nissan chief, Carlos Ghosn has fled Japan for Lebanon. According to the report our correspondent gathered, Carlos Ghosn who was awaiting trial in Japan for financial misconduct fled to Lebanon to avoid rigged Japanese justice system. The Lebanese authority said that Ghosn entered Beirut legally and would not face any legal consequences, but Ghosn’s
He Jiankui, a Chinese scientist who said last year that he has created world’s first gene-edited babies has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Shenzhen (China). The court convicted He Jiankui of violating a government ban by carrying out his own experiments on human embryos, in order to try to
Viewers Corner News correspondent in Kyiv reported that the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine have swapped the remaining 200 prisoners. The Ukrainian authority said on Sunday in a statement that they have finished exchanging all the remaining detainees of the five-year conflict. According to the report, the 76 former pro-government prisoners had
