WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, while in South Korea for the Winter Olympics this month but the North Koreans canceled at the last minute, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. “North Korea dangled ... Read More »
SEOUL: South Korea and the US will announce their plan for joint military drills before April, Seoul’s defense minister said on Tuesday. Asked when the two countries will hold their postponed military exercises, Song Young-moo told parliament he and his counterpart, Jim Mattis, would make an announcement after the Winter ... Read More »
The president ranks even below Richard Nixon Nearly 200 of America’s top political scientists have voted Donald Trump the worst president in US history. According to the 2018 Presidents & Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey, Mr Trump ranks even lower than disgraced President Richard Nixon – even among conservatives. ... Read More »
CAIRO: Three Egyptian soldiers have been killed in a 10-day-old campaign against militants focused on the Sinai peninsula, Egypt’s military said on Monday. It was the first time the military has reported its own casualties since it launched the operation on February 9. The statement did not say ... Read More »
Democrat speaks out on House committee’s Russia investigation The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has said there is an “abundance” of information about possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia that the public has yet to see. “There is certainly an abundance of non-public information that we’ve gathered ... Read More »
The Israeli authorities must immediately release teenage activist Ahed Tamimi whose continued detention is a desperate attempt to intimidate Palestinian children who dare to stand up to repression by occupying forces, Amnesty International said. Ahed Tamimi’s trial is due to start tomorrow in Ofer juvenile military court in the occupied ... Read More »
INDIA has declared that Pakistan “will pay” for an attack on an army base in the Jammu region that killed at least six people, the country’s defence minister starkly warned. Nirmala Sitharaman declared that Pakistan was “expanding the arc of terror” following the devastating attack and vowed to avenge ... Read More »
North Korea says it is unable to pay its share of the 2018 United Nations budget because of international sanctions. The UN and US had imposed strict sanctions for Pyongyang’s continued development of its nuclear weapons programme. North Korea’s UN Ambassador Ja Song Nam asked the UN to set up ... Read More »
OTTAWA: Just one day after signing a $233 million agreement to sell 16 helicopters to the Philippines, the Canadian government on Wednesday ordered a review of the deal amid concerns the aircraft could be used to fight rebels. Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said that the deal — formally signed on ... Read More »
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is continuing his habit of painting immigrants as criminals, highlighting gang connections, calling family reunification a national security threat and bemoaning the death of a pro football player involved in a car accident with a man living in the country illegally. Speaking to law enforcement ... Read More »
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