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Anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio speaking to press earlier this month. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP The leaders of Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) and nationalist League were on Thursday morning in talks to discuss a second bid at forming a government. Their first attempt at a government deal collapsed at the weekend […]

North Korean envoy Kim Yong-chol arrives at a hotel in New York, Thursday (local time). / Reuters A senior North Korean official and the top U.S. diplomat had dinner in New York on Wednesday as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un try to salvage prospects for a high-stakes nuclear summit. It’s the highest-level official North […]

US President Donald Trump infamously called his Syrian counterpart ‘animal Assad’ in one of his tweets. When asked whether he has a nickname for Trump, Assad told RT he does not use such language. “This is not my language, so, I cannot use similar language. This is his language. It represents him,” Bashar Assad said […]

Kim Yong Chol touched down in New York City on Wednesday afternoon [File: Ahn Young-joon/The Associated Press] Former spy chief Kim Yong Chol set to meet top US diplomat as Russia’s Lavrov heads to North Korea for talks. North Korean former spy chief Kim Yong Chol has arrived in the US where he is expected […]

A picture taken on May 30, 2018 shows flowers that are laid in front of Liege police headquarters in tribute to victims of a shooting in Liege. (AFP Photo)  picture taken on May 30, 2018 shows flowers that are laid in front of Liege police headquarters in tribute to victims of a shooting in Liege. […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump / Graphic by Cho Sang-wonIt has become a tricky strategy game between the two most unpredictable leaders in the world. Ahead of the upcoming Singapore summit possibly on June 12, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are playing their own […]

Russian journalist Arkadiy Babchenko, an adamant Kremlin critic, was fatally shot in the back several times as he left his Kyiv apartment on May 29. Photo by Arkadiy Babchenko/facebook Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist who was reportedly killed in Kyiv on May 29 and widely mourned, stood up alive at the office of Ukraine’s State Security […]

At a news conference this morning federal prosecutors said that several elements in the investigation into the Liège shooter Benjamin Herman may point to a terrorist connection. They point to the way that the shooting of two women police officers was carried out and the resemblance of this crime to video messages posted by the […]

©Carlo Allegri / Reuters Global issues such as the denuclearization of North Korea, the Iran nuclear deal or the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts, can’t be solved by ultimatums in the style of ‘Star Wars,’ says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “Over and over again we come to realize that ultimatums and pressure, exerted externally, including […]

TOKYO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has finally broken his silence on what he plans to bring to the table during his summits with the South Korean and U.S. presidents, and it doesn’t appear to have a whole lot to do with tossing out his hard-won nuclear arsenal. At least not yet. Ending weeks […]