World

The smartphones of dozens of Israeli soldiers were hacked by Hamas militants pretending to be attractive young women online, an Israeli military official said Wednesday. Using fake profiles on Facebook with alluring photos, Hamas members contacted the soldiers via groups on the social network, luring them into long chats, the official told journalists on condition of anonymity. Dozens of the …

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill, has delivered a speech in London’s Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints in a four-day visit to the UK to mark the 300th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church’s presence there. Your eminences, your graces, your eminence Archbishop Elisey, your grace the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin …

The leader of the anti-mass migration Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) Heinz-Christian Strache has vowed to ban Islamism in Austria as he sets his sights on the chancellor position. Mr. Strache has said he wants to ban political Islam in Austria at the New Year’s celebration of the Freedom Party in a keynote speech in Salzburg. Strache said that Austria …

A deepening partisan divide over the deployment of the controversial U.S. THAAD missile defense system is becoming a key national security issue in South Korea’s emerging presidential race. In the wake of North Korea’s fifth nuclear test, the United States indicated in September it would accelerate the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, known as THAAD, which uses …

A Nigerian Air Force jet has mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing over 100, a Borno state official told AP. A Nigerian fighter jet’s bombing resulted in deaths of refugees and wounds of Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders workers in northeast Rann near the country’s border with Cameroon, Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor told reporters. The Air Force was targeting …

A member of the Russian parliament’s upper house Alexei Pushkov says that current tensions between US President-elect Donald Trump and the EU leaders could lead to political confrontation. Current tensions between US President-elect Donald Trump and the European Union leaders could result in political confrontation between the sides, a member of the Russian parliament’s upper house, Alexei Pushkov, said Tuesday. …

Syria’s Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) will open its representative office in the US capital of Washington, Ilham Ahmed, the co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council, which includes the PYD, told Sputnik Tuesday. She also stressed the intention of the Syrian Democratic Council in general and the PYD in particular to uphold constructive relations with the US administration. “We cannot …

Macedonians living in the New York metro area gathered on Sunday in front of the Trump Tower on 5th Avenue to express their support for the President elect Donald Trump. At the rally, a proclamation was read that called for an end to the support which the outgoing Obama administration gave to left wing organizations in Macedonia, primarily to the …