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Throughout Europe, national identity is now central to public debates on immigration and integration, which has become a highly politicized issue, where concerns about security and migration are often conflated. Norway is a case in point.

A war between the United States and China is “inevitable” unless Washington stops demanding Beijing halt its construction projects in the South China Sea, a Chinese state-owned newspaper warns.

Ecuador President Rafael Correa? warns that the threat of coups against progressive governments are real and a respect for human rights is urgent.

A court in Jerusalem has sentenced the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to eight months in prison for fraud and breach of trust.

Iran is planning to invest $200 billion in its oil sector over the coming 6 years, a deputy minister of petroleum said.

Inaccuracies and distorted information have accompanied the talks between the U.S. and Cuba, a milestone for two countries which have lacked formal ties for more than 50 years, from the beginning. The following are seven key points which clarify the dimension of what is happening between Havana and Washington and the coming stage.

Malaysia Home Minister expresses shock at discovery of gravesites near 17 human trafficking camps along border with Thailand.

Iran has reiterated that it will neither allow access to its military sites nor any interview with its nuclear scientists according to Iran's senior nuclear negotiator, Abbass Araqchi.

Rafah Crossing has been closed since March, preventing many Palestinians returning to Gaza.

Iraqi forces recaptured territory from advancing ISIL fighters near the recently-fallen city of Ramadi, while in Syria the government said the fighters had killed hundreds of people since capturing the town of Palmyra.

"The Saudi aggression has left 1,114, including 154 children and 114 women, dead since it began on March 25," the Health Ministry, which was taken over by the Houthis, said.

Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain around Japan's parliament in Tokyo, protesting on the planned construction of a new US airbase on the southern island of Okinawa.