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WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday that the United States would like to have dialogue with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) at some point. “We are not your enemy…but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond,” said Tillerson here at a press […]

Police in southern Sweden are investigating an anti-Israel protest where Jewish people were allegedly labelled the “offspring of apes and pigs”. Aside from the investigation the Jewish Community of Northwest Skåne (Judiska Församlingen i Nordvästra Skåne) is also preparing a report to submit to the police, SVT Helsingborg reports. Several protests have been held by […]

No injuries were reported in what the Syrian government said was an attack on the Russian embassy [Reuters] Syrian state media said that two mortar shells were fired at the Russian embassy in Damascus but reported no injuries. Syrian state media say shells have hit the Russian embassy in Damascus, causing material damage. State news […]

© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Libertarian icon Ron Paul has accused Donald Trump of betraying his promises to the American electorate by seeking a new conflict with either Iran or North Korea, warning the US president that any such war will put an end to his term. “President Trump seems to be impatiently racing toward […]

Oskar Gröning in court in 2015. Photo: DPA. A former Nazi SS guard known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, now 96, is fit to serve out his sentence, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Oskar Gröning was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people at the camp and sentenced to four […]

In a stunning revelation, U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC’s Today program, Tuesday (local time), U.S. President Donald Trump told him he was “willing to go to war with North Korea if they (North Korea) continued to try to hit America with an ICBM.” Graham said: “He’s told me that. I believe him… There […]

ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is unlikely to rejoin the cabinet under the leadership of the ‘interim’ prime minister. Other members of the cabinet are expected to take oath with the same portfolios they were holding till Friday when Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court as prime minister and his cabinet […]

US soldiers keep watch near the wreckage of their vehicle at the site of the Taliban suicide attack [AFP] A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces on Wednesday in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, officials said. “At around noon a car bomb targeted a convoy of foreign forces in Daman […]

  (Paul Herman, News24) Maimane to hand-deliver petition signed by 1 million to Ramaphosa Govt only cares about wealth of Zuma and Guptas – Maimane Maimane to deliver national petition to Ramaphosa ahead of no confidence vote Cape Town – Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has handed over a petition of over 1 million signatures […]

Berlin’s Südkreuz station. Photo: DPA. A Berlin train station on Tuesday became the first to test out software that will automatically recognize faces in an effort to fight terrorism. But not everyone sees the project as positive. Berlin’s Südkreuz station on Tuesday started the pilot project on behalf of the federal government to use surveillance […]