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Firefighters walk in a flooded street during a rescue operation following heavy rains that saw rivers bursting banks on October 15, 2018 in Trebes, near Carcassone. Photo: AFP At least 13 people died as violent rainstorms turned rivers into raging torrents in southwestern France on Monday in the latest episode of wild weather in Europe, […]

Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, left, shake hands with his North Korean counterpart Ri Son-gwon, chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, before starting inter-Korean high-level talks at the Peace House on the South’s side of the border village of Panmunjeom, Monday. Both sides reached a package of agreements to initiate inter-Korean […]

© Emmanuel Dunand / AFP | EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier (R) meets Britain’s Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab at the European Commission in Brussels on August 31, 2018. Last-ditch talks between London and Brussels’ chief Brexit negotiators failed to agree a draft divorce settlement on Sunday, still blocked on the issue of the Northern […]

AA Photo At least 25 PKK terrorists were “neutralized” in counter-terrorism operations across Turkey over the past week, the country’s Interior Ministry said Monday. Turkish authorities often use the word “neutralized” in their statements to imply that the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured. The ministry said in a statement that […]

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain a document certifying he divorced his ex-wife. He has not been seen since. Turkish sources have told media outlets they believe the Saudi writer and critic was killed inside the consulate in what they describe as “premeditated murder”. Saudi officials have countered that claim, […]

A Somalia police officer secures the scene of a bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu on October 1, 2018. (Photo by AFP) At least 16 people have been killed in Somalia in bombings that targeted a restaurant and a coffee shop, police say. The blasts took place in the southwestern city of Baidoa, where the […]

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain a document certifying he divorced his ex-wife. He has not been seen since. Turkish sources have told media outlets they believe the Saudi writer and critic was killed inside the consulate in what they describe as “premeditated murder”. Saudi officials have countered […]

The take-off, spacemen inside the Soyuz, and the recovered capsule © Sputnik/YouTube-RT/Russian Army The Soyuz was considered so safe, tweets about a successful launch had already gone out. At the same time, the two men inside were hurtling towards the ground in the worst Russian manned flight accident since Soviet times. Baikonur’s first launchpad, the […]

North Korea’s official newspaper said Friday that the country will be ready to survive even 100 years of sanctions by means of self-reliance. In a stepped-up criticism of the United States-led economic sanctions, the Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, accused its “enemies” of enforcing a “murderous” blockade against North […]