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Kang Kyung-wha, President Moon Jae-in’s pick for foreign minister, said Thursday humanitarian aid to North Korea should come with no strings attached. Still, she called for taking “stern measures” against Pyongyang if it continues with its military provocations. Her view is in line with Moon’s pursuit of sanctions and dialogue simultaneously in resolving the North […]

German police said they arrested nine drug trafficking suspects, including four suspected Islamist militants, in early morning raids Wednesday. Police arrested four “Islamists considered capable of resorting to violence”, in the operation to dismantle a drug trafficking ring, said police and the Berlin public prosecutor’s office in a statement. File Photo: DPA They also seized […]

Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to use his US presidency to promote peace around the world after what he depicted as an inspirational meeting with an initially grim-faced Pope Francis. Meeting face-to-face for the first time, the two leaders sidestepped profound differences over a string of issues ranging from the environment to the plight of migrants […]

Two bombs have gone off near a bus station in eastern Jakarta, leaving a police officer and a suspected bomber dead, Indonesian police say. The two blasts occurred approximately five minutes apart in Kampung Melayu on Wednesday evening, a police statement said. It added that several people, including police officers, were injured in the bombings. […]

Inger Støjberg, Denmark’s minister for immigration, may have been warned that an instruction to separate young refugee couples was illegal before issuing the order. The minister gave an instruction in February 2016 to forcibly separate all asylum-seeking couples including individuals under 18 years of age, regardless of whether the couples had children. The Ministry of […]

social worker within the British Muslim society told U.K. broadcaster BBC that Muslims in the country have repeatedly reported Manchester bomber Salman Abedi to the anti-terror hotline for his terrorist tendencies, but police failed to take precautions. In the piece published in the BBC’s Turkey service on Wednesday, it was reported that many individuals from […]

Provinces, SANA – The Army and Armed Forces units re-established control over al-Jarah Airport and restored security and stability to a number of villages and towns in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, after killing and injuring around 3,000 ISIS terrorists. A military source told SANA that army units expanded their operations in hunting down ISIS terrorists […]

In 2015, a faction of Somalia-based al-Shabaab pledged alliance to Islamic State. In 2015, a faction of Somalia-based al-Shabaab pledged alliance to Islamic State.  The Isis terror group has claimed responsibility for what is thought to be its first suicide attack in Somalia. Five people died when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive at a […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday condemned North Korea’s “dangerous” missile test but warned against “intimidating” the rogue regime and called for a peaceful solution in the region. “I want to confirm that we are categorically against the expansion of the club of nuclear powers, including with the Korean Peninsula and North Korea,” Putin said […]

The Defense Intelligence Agency has provided the first official US assessment of North Korea’s latest missile test, telling a Senate committee that the reclusive nation is on a clear trajectory to obtaining a nuclear-armed missile that could hit the US. DIA Director Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testified before […]