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PYONGYANG, North Korea – In a move that has threatened the diplomatic progress it managed to achieve in June year – after several years of bitter relations with the U.S., its neighbor South Korea and other nations – North Korea on Thursday took a bold step. North Korea’s state media declared that the country’s ruler, […]

An Egyptian woman is claiming to be the secret wife of the slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, presenting pictures of the two together at their wedding in the U.S. in June, according to a report by the Washington Post. The 50-year-old woman – identifying herself only by the initial of her first name and last […]

Security officials display a modified AK-47 rifle belonging to a suspected Al-Shabaab militant who was killed in Wajir in a past incident. Police officers at the Kenya-Somalia border let in five Al-Shabaab suicide bombers in February this year after receiving bribes. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP Police officers at the Kenya-Somalia border let […]

President Sauli Niinistö of Finland said he didn’t discuss raking with President Donald Trump during their brief meeting in Paris last weekend. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The leader of Finland denied on Sunday that he’d ever told President Donald Trump that the small Nordic nation relies upon “raking” its forests to prevent wildfires — even […]

Ugandan Marine Police monitor activities on Lake Albert in Hoima District recently. PHOTO BY FRANCIS MUGERWA  Seven Ugandan fishermen have reportedly been shot dead by Congolese militiamen on the Lake Albert. Authorities say the attack happened Saturday evening near Kaiso Landing site in Buseruka Sub County, Hoima District. The deceased are all fishermen attached to […]

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel give a press statement prior to talks at the Chancellery in Berlin. Photo: AFP French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday urged a Franco-German push to make Europe a stronger and more confident global player that could prevent “chaos” on the world stage. Macron and German Chancellor […]

Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank (L) visited the lab that produces the biotechnological drug. Turkey’s initiative to promote domestic and national products now includes a new biotechnological drug against cancer which will be ready for trial in 2019 Turkey pursues what authorities call a “domestic and national initiative” to reduce its dependence on […]

People block Caen’s circular road during Saturday’s protests. Photo: AFP A protester was accidentally killed and more than 220 injured as tens of thousands of people blocked roads across France in a “yellow vest” protest against high fuel prices, which has channelled anger at stagnant spending under President Emmanuel Macron. Nearly 283,000 people were estimated […]

  A South Korean guard post in the border country of Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, is demolished, Thursday. The two Koreas will destroy 10 guard posts near the border area on each side by the end of this month. / Joint Press Corps The two Koreas are on a rapid track to disarm fortifications on land […]

A genetic repair system activated by light turns out to exist in everything from germs to animals – except for mammals and eyeless cavefish in Somalia Eyeless fish that evolved for three million years inside caves in Somalia are an unlikely crutch for the theory that early mammals weathered the dinosaur age by going nocturnal. […]