Donald Trump has won the US presidential election 2016 emerging “victorious” against all odds, polls, and projections. But it’s not only Trump-supporters who will be celebrating the victory of the Republican leader who promised to make “America great again”. As Firstpost reported, the Islamic State (IS) were also cheering for Trump because it believed the Republican candidate (now President-elect) would lead America... 

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama today said that he would feel “deeply disturbed” if Donald Trump is sworn in as his successor and reiterated that the billionaire is not somebody who is fit to be president in any circumstances. Barack Obama said that Donald Trump is not somebody who’s fit to be president in any circumstances. “He (Trump) is not somebody who’s fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply... 

NASA has completed the construction of the world’s largest space telescope, after almost two decades. WASHINGTON: US space agency NASA has completed the construction of the world’s largest space telescope, after almost two decades. The James Webb Space Telescope is considered to be the successor to NASA’s 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, the agency announced on Wednesday. NASA said an Ariane 5 rocket will launch it from French... 

Washington: President Barack Obama has suggested that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton faces a double standard as the first female presidential nominee of a major party against an outlandish opponent whose rhetoric and behaviour were being normalised. “She made me a better president and she didn’t ask for credit,” said Barack Obama. “I saw her as my Secretary of State. I saw her in the Situation Room making arguments... 

In his declaration, President Poroshenko revealed more than $26 million in various bank accounts. KIEV: A luxury watch collection, millions of dollars in cash and a Picasso painting are just several items listed on Ukraine officials’ income and asset declarations, shocking a country vowing to curb corruption. Officials are required under a new law to declare their assets and income online, a requirement for the disbursement of a $1-billion (920-million-euro)... 

Qayyarah: Jihadist leaders are fleeing Mosul, a top US general in the coalition battling the Islamic State group said on Wednesday as Iraqi forces closed in on the northern city. Representational image. Mosul was where Islamic State supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his “caliphate” two years ago but is now the group’s last major stronghold in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who announced the launch of a broad offensive... 

Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump’s plan for deportations of illegal migrants would rip families. LAS VEGAS: Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump’s plan for forcible deportations of millions of illegal migrants would rip families and the country apart, in the final 2016 presidential debate Wednesday. “I don’t want to see the deportation force that Donald has talked about,” Clinton said. “I think it is an idea that... 

North Korea fired a missile that failed immediately after launch. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korea fired a missile that failed immediately after launch early on Thursday, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said, hours after the two countries agreed to step up efforts to counter the North’s nuclear and missile threats. The missile was believed to be an intermediate-range Musudan and was launched from the western city of Kusong, where the isolated... 

BAGHDAD/ERBIL: Residents of Mosul said ISIS was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Kurdish forces captured outlying villages in their advance on the terrorists‘ stronghold. Around 1.5 million people are still living in Mosul. The leader of ISIS and one of its main explosives experts were reported to be among thousands of the hardline terrorists still in Mosul, suggesting the group would go to great lengths to fend off any ground... 

Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump’s “flattery” of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday slammed Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump’s “flattery” of Russia’s Vladimir Putin as “unprecedented” and “out of step” with both Democrats and rank-and-file Republicans. “Mr Trump’s continued flattery of Mr Putin and the degree to which...