AT LEAST 200 people have reportedly died at Kim Jong-un’s nuclear test site, and there are fears of a radioactive leak. A TUNNEL at an underground North Korea nuclear site has reportedly collapsed with up to 200 people killed, according to reports. The collapse happened at the Punggye-ri nuclear test ...

The Brexit Secretary said the next round of negotiations with Brussels will take place next week   David Davis has conceded in front of peers that Britain’s Brexit withdrawal agreement will “probably favour“ the EU. Speaking in the House of Lords European Union Select Committee, the Brexit Secretary said: “In ...

    SHARHABIL, Jordan –  From a hillside in northern Jordan, the Yarmouk River is barely visible in the steep valley below, reduced from a once important water source to a sluggish trickle overgrown with vegetation. Jordan’s reservoirs are only one-fifth full, a record low, and vital winter rains are ...

UN warns that drastic action is needed to meet climate targets set in the Paris agreement   The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased at record speed last year to hit a level not seen for more than three million years, the UN has warned. The new report ...

Spanish officials say that even as he tweeted to suggest he was outside the regional presidency building, Carles Puigdemont was already making plans to escape to Belgium   The first working day for the administration of Catalonia, Europe’s newest “independent” country, unfolded in an extraordinary and dramatic fashion with its ...

The President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, said that the construction work is not easy, especially after all the years of destruction that have been exposed to everything in Lebanon. It needs all the Lebanese, for their solidarity first, and for their trust in themselves, their partners and their ...

The Information Office of Information Minister Melhem Al-Riyashi issued the following statement:”The media office is concerned to confirm that everything contained in the news published by the Central News Agency today, entitled” Lebanon TV crisis from political rams to the fate of employees and paralysis of the station, the Minister ...

Minister of Information Melhem Al-Riyashi, Director of the United Nations Information Center Margo El-Helou, accompanied by a delegation from the Center, including Cynthia Khoury, Maryam Sulaiman and Rasha Salman, and discussed means of cooperation between the Ministry and the Center. Al-Riyashi also received a delegation from the Sports Media Association ...

Speaker Nabih Berri Monday signed the 2017 state budget and sent it to Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a statement from the Speaker’s office reported. Parliament endorsed Lebanon’s first state budget in more than a decade on Oct. 19. Despite violating the Constitution by not including an audit document of past ...

Comments come days after US House of Representatives votes for new sanctions on Iran   Iran will continue to produce missiles for its defence and does not consider that a violation of international accords, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday in a speech broadcast on state television. Mr Rouhani spoke days ...