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European leaders vowed Thursday to defend the landmark Paris climate pact at a G20 summit next week, setting them on collision course with US President Donald Trump at what is expected to be a stormy meeting. Leaders of Germany, France, Italy and other EU economies acknowledged their long standing ties with Washington but said they […]

Five suicide bombers attacked Lebanese soldiers as they raided two Syrian refugee camps in the Arsal area at the border with Syria on Friday and a sixth militant threw a hand grenade at a patrol, the army said. Seven soldiers were wounded. A Lebanese army statement said one suicide bomber had detonated his explosive laden […]

 South Korea has developed a new modern air defense warning system, relying on digital communications. The will allow fast sharing, real-time battlespace images among military units. The homegrown early warning system, the Command Control and Alert, or C2A, which has been in development since 2010, is expected to enter service in 2019, Yonhap news agency reports citing […]

Ascaled-back version of President Donald Trump’s travel bantook effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. The new rules, the product of months of legal wrangling, aren’t so much an outright ban as a tightening of already-tough […]

Germany said Thursday it had rejected a request by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to address ethnic Turks in Germany next week on the sidelines of a G20 summit. Berlin-Ankara relations have badly deteriorated amid disputes over Turkey’s mass arrests of alleged state enemies since a failed coup last year and a host of other […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for bipartisan effort in resolving North Korea’s nuclear program issue to the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, Thursday. In a meeting with them on the sideline of his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., Moon exchanged key issues […]

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says ISIL’s “state of falsehood” has ended after Iraqi forces retook the wrecked landmark mosque in Mosul from where the armed group proclaimed its self-styled caliphate exactly three years ago. Seizing the 850-year-old Grand al-Nuri Mosque hands a symbolic victory to the Iraqi forces who have been battling for more than […]

Half of all naturalisation hopefuls that took Denmark’s citizenship test in June failed. Only one in two of the thousands of people that took the citizenship test (indfødsretsprøven) at language centres across the country in June managed to pass, according to Ministry of Immigration figures. 49.8 percent passed the test by correctly answering at least […]

As North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un steps up the rate of his hi-tech missile tests, schoolchildren in the hermit kingdom are reportedly being forced to cut class to water crops that are dying in a severe drought. According to a report on Radio Free Asia’s Korean service, high school and college students in the north of […]

President Michel Temer was not inside the building when a minor rammed his vehicle into the presidential palace gate. A car has rammed the gate of the Brazilian president’s palace as calls grow on Michel Temer to resign amid a corruption scandal and single-digit popularity. A statement from Temer’s office said that a vehicle drove […]