Announcement is another sign of eased relations between Pyongyang and Seoul North Korea issued a rare announcement asking all Koreans to work towards a “breakthrough” in efforts to reunify with the South. The call from Pyongyang continued a thaw in relations following months of mounting tension on the Korean Peninsula. It ...
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Donald Trump: ‘I’m looking forward’ to speaking under oath to Russia inquiry
Trump says he is willing to talk with Robert Mueller in investigation into Russian interference in 2016 election Donald Trump said late Wednesday that he would be willing to speak to the special counsel office’s under oath, adding that he was “looking forward” to talking with Robert Mueller, who ...
Read More »Two planets in unusual star system are very likely habitable, scientists say
Exoplanets orbiting Trappist-1 have thrilled astronomers since their discovery last year thanks to their Earth-like potential to harbor water Scientists have identified two planets circling round a dim dwarf star as especially likely candidates to have habitable conditions, with probable water and a source of heat, attributes thought necessary ...
Read More »Kabul attack latest: 14 foreign nationals and four Afghans dead after Taliban assault on Intercontinental Hotel
Most of the foreigners worked for a private Afghan airline, says interior ministry Fourteen foreign nationals and four Afghans were killed when the Taliban attacked Kabul‘s Intercontinental Hotel overnight on Saturday, Afghanistan’s interior ministry said. The number of casualties is expected to rise following a 13-hour siege that ended on ...
Read More »Emmanuel Macron expected to be guest of honour at Donald Trump’s first state dinner – in snub to Theresa May
Theresa May appears to have been snubbed by Donald Trump, amid reports that the White House is preparing to announce that their first guest for a state visit will be the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Two diplomatic sources told CNN that the announcement was expected to come this week, ...
Read More »Japanese volcano eruption: Soldier killed and 11 injured at winter resort as rocks rain down and avalanche traps skiers
One man was killed and at least 11 people injured, some critically, when rocks from an erupting volcano rained down on skiers at a mountain resort in central Japan on Tuesday and an avalanche soon after the eruption engulfed about a dozen skiers. Six of those trapped were members ...
Read More »Joy and hope in Liberia as Weah is sworn in
MONROVIA: To the cheers of a crowd fired by his promise to bring them jobs and prosperity, former football star George Weah was sworn in as president of Liberia on Monday, completing the country’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Weah, 51, took over from Nobel laureate ...
Read More »US forcing Beijing to accelerate South China Sea deployments, People’s Daily says
BEIJING: China’s top newspaper, decrying Washington as a trouble-maker, said on Monday US moves in the South China Sea like last week’s freedom of navigation operation will only cause China to strengthen its deployments in the disputed waterway. China’s foreign ministry said the USS Hopper destroyer came within 12 nautical ...
Read More »Turkey says its troops have entered Syria in fight against Kurdish militias
ISTANBUL — Turkey on Sunday opened a new front in its assault on Kurdish militias in northern Syria, launching a ground offensive with allied Syrian rebels and injecting new uncertainty into an already volatile civil war. The land operation by Turkish forces, which began Sunday morning, comes as Turkey ...
Read More »Britain’s strategy to target smugglers sending migrant boats across Mediterranean doomed to fail, study suggests
Cambridge University study warns that sea operations will be ineffective unless demand is addressed Britain’s strategy to tackle people smugglers sending migrants across the Mediterranean is doomed to fail, a new Cambridge University study has suggested. Wiretapped telephone conversations between gangs show there are no “kingpins” who can be ...
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