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tudents hold posters with pictures of South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un during a pro-unification rally ahead of the upcoming summit between North and South Korea in Seoul, South Korea April 26, 2018 © Jorge Silva / Reuters After a decade-long pause, the two Koreas are holding a top-level […]

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters. (File photo: AP Israel’s envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday that Iran had recruited at least 80,000 Shiite fighters which it was training at a base just over five miles from Damascus. Holding up a […]

Journalists cover a statement from prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen. Photo: Nikolai Linares/Scanpix The murder of journalist Kim Wall has sent Denmark tumbling down the freedom of press rankings, with the country dropping five places to sit behind Jamaica. Reporters without Borders said that Denmark had been “overshadowed” by Wall’s grisly murder in the 2018 press rankings, published […]

Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump in Hamburg last year. Photo: DPA German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits US President Donald Trump on Friday for a last-ditch European effort to prevent a transatlantic trade war and save the Iran nuclear deal. Merkel’s working trip is expected to be far more business-like than this week’s pomp-filled state […]

MEarthquake and Volcano of the Korea Monitoring Division Director Ryoo Yong-gyu speaks to the media about North Korea’s artificial earthquake with a map of the Korean peninsular in Seoul, South Korea (AP File Photo) Earthquake and Volcano of the Korea Monitoring Division Director Ryoo Yong-gyu speaks to the media about North Korea’s artificial earthquake with […]

President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the truce village of Panmunjeom before their first summit, a top presidential aide said, Thursday. Kim will cross the military demarcation line (MDL) on foot for the summit that will be held at the Peace House in the southern […]

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman holds a weapon during a visit to Sderot. (photo credit: ARIEL HERMONI / DEFENSE MINISTRY)  Liberman said Israel is not interested in any wars, but will pay any price to prevent an Iranian presence in Syria. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman took aim at Iran, saying Israel would respond to any Iranian […]

Photo: DPA Following a scandal at the Federal Office for Immigration and Refugees (BAMF) Bremen branch, over 4,500 asylum cases will be re-examined and tougher policies put in place. A former director at a BAMF branch office granted at least 1,200 people asylum even though proper conditions were not met, a joint media investigation revealed last week. […]

Rouhani has called on Trump to uphold the nuclear deal or face ” severe consequences” [Iranian Presidency Office/AP] Rouhani has called on Trump to uphold the nuclear deal or face ” severe consequences” [Iranian Presidency Office/AP]  Iranian president rejects Emmanuel Macron’s suggestion of a new agreement with Tehran during talks with US president. Iranian President Hassan […]

French President Emmanuel Macron urged the United States to reject narrow nationalism and engage the world, telling U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that modern economic and security challenges must be a shared responsibility. Capping a three-day visit to the United States, Macron told a joint meeting of Congress that isolationism and nationalism were “a tempting remedy for our […]