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President Moon Jae-in’s special envoy delegation, led by National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong, third from right, bow before boarding a plane for Pyongyang, at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday. / Yonhap President Moon Jae-in’s special envoys visited Pyongyang, Wednesday, for crucial discussions over a scheduled inter-Korean summit this month as well as […]

Chinese and African officials have rejected criticism of Beijing’s development projects on the continent as they ended a summit that included a $60bn pledge for more aid to the continent. President Xi Jinping hosted leaders from across Africa amid questions about whether his country’s Belt and Road global trade infrastructure initiative is worsening debt problems in some countries. “Everything we do […]

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A very strong typhoon brought heavy rain and strong winds across Kinki and Shikoku regions of western Japan, and Tokai and Hokuriku regions on Tuesday, killing one person in the Kinki region. Typhoon No. 21 landed in the southern part of Tokushima Prefecture in the Shikoku region around noon. It made […]

The mothers on their nightly patrols of Rinkeby, Sweden. [Al Jazeera] Across Europe, the far right is on the rise and it has some of the continent’s most diverse communities in its crosshairs. To the far right, these neighbourhoods are ‘no-go zones’ that challenge their notion of what it means to be European. To those who live […]

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will convene on Friday to discuss developments in Syria’s Idlib, U.S. envoy to the U.N. Nikki Haley said late Tuesday. Syria could be spared its bloodiest battle yet if the Russian and Turkish presidents talk to each other urgently about resolving the situation in the opposition-held region of Idlib, […]

There is a risk for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in relying on a Republican-controlled Congress to block any North American trade deal that does not include Canada.  (EVAN VUCCI / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO) WASHINGTON—The Trump administration said the deadline for a NAFTA deal was the end of 2017. It wasn’t. Negotiations continued into 2018, as if there […]

A Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet arriving from Syria lands at an airbase in Krasnodar region, southern Russia, in this March 16, 2016 handout photo by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (Reuters Photo) Russian warplanes on Tuesday resumed airstrikes on Syria’s northwestern Idlib province after a 22-day break, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human […]

National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong, right, and National Intelligence Service Director Suh Hoon talk ahead of a special security meeting at Cheong Wa Dae, Tuesday. Yonhap The head of the President Moon Jae-in’s five-member special delegation said late Tuesday the envoys will discuss plans to establish a permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula, the […]

High waves are observed at a fishing port in Aki, Kochi Prefecture, on Tuesday as Typhoon Jebi approaches western Japan. | KY Typhoon Jebi — the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years — slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, killing at least two, disrupting transportation, heavily damaging the bridge that leads to […]

  Idlib province is the last major rebel stronghold fighting al-Assad [Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE] US President Donald Trump has warned the Syrian government against launching an attack on rebel-held Idlib province amid concerns that the planned offensive will create a new humanitarian crisis. “President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians and Iranians […]