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Residents take part in a drill at Tokyo Dome City in Tokyo on Monday morning.  Photo: AFP Hundreds of Tokyo residents scrambled for cover Monday in the Japanese capital’s first evacuation drill for a military attack since World War II, amid ongoing tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program. A loudspeaker blared out a terrifying warning at the […]

Italian Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre has been made a senator for life by the country’s president Sergio Mattarella. File photo of the Italian Senate: Andreas Solaro/AFP The announcement was made to mark 80 years in 2018 since Italy’s Fascist government introduced racial laws discriminating against Jews. Aged just eight at the time, Segre was expelled […]

ISLAMABAD: A Senate Standing Committee has proposed an amendment to the Pakistan Penal Code, which suggests that any person involved in kidnapping or abduction of children below the age of 14 should be hanged in public. PHOTO: FILE The meeting, held at the Parliament House on Monday, was chaired by Senator Rehman Malik. The panel also passed […]

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:27 P.M.) – Following the link up of two key Syrian Arab Army fronts in the area around the Abu Duhur military airport several days ago, various formations now stationed near provincial border of Aleppo and Idlib are moving north along it having seized seven settlements so far in rapid succession. On Saturday, […]

A conservative activist sets fire to a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the North’s flag in front of Seoul Station Monday in protest against the North’s participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul Conservative protesters on Monday burned a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un […]

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont disembarked his flight to Copenhagen on Monday morning despite a threat by Madrid to issue a warrant for his arrest if he leaves Belgium, where he has been in exile since a failed independence bid. Photo: Tariq Mikkel Khan/Scanpix Denmark Danish and Spanish media were present in large numbers at […]

As the start of the working week begins in the United States, and with Republicans and Democrats still unable to come to an agreement over government spending, hundreds of thousands federal employees will not be allowed to report for duty. The shutdown will affect hundreds of thousands government employees and halt key federal services [Mark Lennihan/AP […]

The number of deportations from Sweden to Morocco has increased thanks to the use of fingerprint records in the identification process. Access to Moroccan fingerprint records is credited with the change. Photo: Tore Meek/NTB Scanpix/TT Swedish authorities now have access to the records thanks to a new partnership with Morocco, making it easier to identify […]

France has called for a United Nations Security Council meeting over “humanitarian risks” as fighting escalates in Syria, its foreign minister said on Sunday in Algiers. Syrian children look at a building that was damaged in a missile attack on the rebel-held besieged town of Arbin on Thursday. PHOTO: ABDULMONAM EASSA / AFP “France is […]

Thousands have taken part in women’s marches across the US on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump‘s inauguration, in a bid to generate more female candidates running for office as well as to protest against the US president’s policies. Under the name Power to the Polls, the rallies on Saturday were hailed as the beginning of a new […]