NORTH KOREA warned it “would not flinch” from “the road to bolstering up the nuclear forces” unless the USA backed down from its “hostile” and threatening policy towards Pyongyang. And Pyongyang’s permanent representative to the United Nations said the United States and Donald Trump should “take the lead” ... Read More »
Extremist soldiers forego martyrdom to hand themselves in at Kurdish interrogation centre in northern Iraq after loss of regional stronghold in morale-sapping defeat The prisoners were taken to a waiting room in groups of four, and were told to stand facing the concrete wall, ... Read More »
Female fighters almost killed by Isis on Sinjar mountain vow to liberate their fellow Yazidis – and all other women who suffer at the hands of oppressors The flags and pictures on the wall of the Raqqa home serving as a Yazidi women’s unit seem familiar, even though they can’t ... Read More »
Aung San Suu Kyi is to be stripped of her Freedom of Oxford award because of her response to the Rohingya crisis. Burma’s de facto leader, who completed her undergraduate degree at Oxford University, was granted the honour in 1997 for her “struggle for democracy”. But Oxford City Council voted unanimously to ... Read More »
MOSCOW: King Salman arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a historic and unprecedented state visit to Russia, the first by a Saudi monarch in almost a century of diplomatic ties. The king was greeted at Vnukovo airport by senior Russian officials and a military brass band. He will have talks ... Read More »
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has bashed President Donald Trump ahead of what looks certain to become a showdown over the legacy of former President Barack Obama’s top foreign policy achievement — the Iran deal. Zarif, a key architect of the 2015 accord, gave an interview to ... Read More »
King Felipe of Spain has accused the Catalan authorities of attempting to break “the unity of Spain” and warned that their push for independence could risk the country’s social and economic stability. In a rare and strongly worded television address on Tuesday evening, he said the Catalan government’s behaviour had ... Read More »
LAS VEGAS — Perched in his suite at a high-rise hotel overlooking the Vegas Strip, a 64-year-old retiree with no real criminal history and no known affiliations with terror groups rained bullets down into a crowd at a country music festival Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring ... Read More »
Opposition leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have called for a new effort to oust President Joseph Kabila, who has yet to set dates for elections in the vast central African state despite his second term expiring nine months ago. “The people are tired,” ... Read More »
MURDEROUS, thin-skinned and in possession of nuclear weapons, the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, has one good deed to his name: he has united America and China. Max Baucus, America’s ambassador to Beijing until January 2017, recalls the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, privately expressing “disgust” at Mr Kim’s reckless ... Read More »
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