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Russia reserving right for more retaliatory steps on US

The Russian Foreign Ministry says Moscow is reserving the right to take further retaliatory measures in response to a sanctions bill signed by U.S. President Donald Trump. The statement contrasts with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's earlier statement that "retaliatory measures already have...

Italy impounds German NGO migrant rescue boat

Italian authorities on Wednesday impounded a German NGO's migrant rescue boat on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration, police said. The Iuventa, operated by the Jugend Rettet organisation, was impounded on the Italian island of Lampedusa on the orders of a prosecutor based in...

Germany accuses Vietnam of asylum seeker kidnapping

Germany Wednesday accused Hanoi of kidnapping an asylum seeker on German soil, as Berlin furiously summoned Vietnam's ambassador and expelled one of the south-east Asian nation's spies. "The kidnapping of Vietnamese national Trinh Xuan Thanh on German soil is an unprecedented and scandalous...

ISIS claims mosque attack in Afghanistan's Herat

Daesh (ISIS) Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack a day earlier against a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan that left dozens dead. "Around 50 Shiites killed and 80 wounded in an attack by [Daesh] fighters yesterday on a mosque in western Afghanistan's Herat," the group's...