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Two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers fly alongside two Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jets over the East China Sea on Saturday. Following the the operation, one B-1B flew to Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture for the Misawa Air Festival, while the other B-1B returned to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. | JAPAN […]

North Korea warned Saturday that it will watch every move of the United States as Washington pushes to impose new U.N. sanctions on the regime for its latest nuclear test. Choe Hui-chol, a vice minister of foreign affairs, met with foreign ambassadors in the country on Friday to brief them on Pyongyang’s sixth and most […]

Thousands attend first Mogadishu night football match in decadesMohamed_Abdiwahab/ AFP Several thousand fans on Friday watched the first night-time football match to be played in Mogadishu since chaos descended on the Somali capital nearly three decades ago, raucously backing their respective teams in what the mayor called a “historic” event. The match was the final […]

Residents walk past a building destroyed in an earthquake that struck off the southern coast of Mexico, in Juchitan, Mexico September 8, 2017. © Jorge Luis Plata / Reuters The number of people killed by the 8.2-magnitude quake that hit the southern coast of Mexico late Thursday has risen to at least 61, with witnesses […]

German soldiers in Warsaw in 1945. Photo: Wikipedia Commons/ Germany on Friday dismissed Poland’s threat to demand new talks for World War II reparations from Berlin, saying the issue was already settled in 1953. “Poland made a binding decision in August 1953… to relinquish demands for further war reparations,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert said, adding […]

Japanese wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki (R) and Ri Su Yong, a vice chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea who formerly served as foreign minister, shake hands in Pyongyang on PYONGYANG – Japanese wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki on Friday held talks with North Korea’s top official in charge of foreign affairs, amid soaring tensions between the country […]

Saint Martin after the storm. AFP. The hurricane killed nine, while seven are still missing in the French Caribbean islands, France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has said. In addition to those killed and missing, 112 were left injured, and 60 percent of homes on the island were damaged so badly that they were uninhabitable.  Collomb […]

Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (L) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (R). Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani called Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to initiate talks to resolve a three-month-old diplomatic crisis, Saudi state media said early Saturday. The Qatari emir expressed willingness to discuss the demands of […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin © Sergey Guneev / Sputnik Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on IT companies in Russia to use domestically developed software, saying that soon the use of such foreign products will no longer be possible in certain sectors due to “high security risks.” The IT industry in Russia should aim to […]

Hurricane Irma surges towards the Florida Keys as it approaches the U.S. mainland. (Photo: NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite) Like a giant buzzsaw, Hurricane Irma is forecast to carve a ferocious path up the Florida peninsula, all the way from the Keys to the Georgia border. The National Hurricane Center’s forecast path for Irma has it […]