Guatemala said on Sunday it would postpone President Jimmy Morales’ visit to Washington to discuss Guatemala’s potential designation as a ‘safe third country’ for asylum seekers, stressing it had no plans to sign such an agreement. In a statement, Guatemala said the planned meeting between Morales and U.S. President Donald ... Read More »
Mr Erdogan said Turkey is “trying to guarantee peace and national security” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the country will finish receiving parts for a new Russian air-defence system by April. Mr Erdogan said Turkey is buying the S-400 system as “we are trying to guarantee peace and ... Read More »
According to the British government, at least three Iranian vessels “attempted to impede” a British oil tanker in the Gulf yesterday. The Iranian boats withdrew after warnings from British warship. The oil tanker British Heritage, operated by BP, was attempting to pass the Strait of Hormuz when the incident took ... Read More »
Iran welcomes France’s efforts to save the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday as French President Emmanuel Macron’s top diplomatic adviser visited Tehran for talks to help ease the crisis. Iran threatened on Monday to restart deactivated centrifuges and ramp up enrichment of uranium to ... Read More »
The United States would hope to see a freeze in the North Korean nuclear program as the start of a process of denuclearization, the State Department said on Tuesday, ahead of fresh talks with Pyongyang supposed to take place this month. U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim ... Read More »
Police in riot gear beat protesters as demonstration continued into late evening Conflict has broken out between hundreds of protesters and police in riot gear in Hong Kong after tens of thousands of protesters marched peacefully earlier in the day to keep up the pressure on the government to ... Read More »
Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis comfortably won Greece’s parliamentary elections Sunday, delivering a stinging blow to leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after a tumultuous four years in office as the country struggled through a crippling financial crisis. With more than 90% of votes counted, Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party had 39.8% ... Read More »
President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday against making threats that can “come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before,” after Tehran announced it would breach a 2015 nuclear deal. President Hassan Rouhani announced that after July 7 Iran would enrich uranium beyond a fissile purity of ... Read More »
China on Tuesday condemned violent protests in Hong Kong as an “undisguised challenge” to the formula under which the city is ruled, hours after police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who stormed and trashed the legislature. A representative of China’s Hong Kong affairs office denounced ... Read More »
Japan has resumed commercial whaling after 31 years, meeting a long-cherished goal of traditionalists that’s seen as a largely lost cause. Whaling boats embarked Monday on their first commercial hunts since 1988, when Japan switched to so-called research whaling, but will stay within the country’s exclusive economic waters. Japan’s six-month ... Read More »
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