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© Copyright :Reuters Italy’s new far-right interior minister brought the issue at the forefront of the debate by refusing the migrant rescue ship Aquarius the right to dock in Italy and saying he will not accept more migrants in his country, which is their main landing point. The other reason is the political challenge Merkel […]

South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo, right, shakes hands with his U.S. counterpart James Mattis before holding talks at his office in Yongsan, Seoul, Thursday. They discussed a series of defense issues including follow-up measures to realize a peace agreement from the Washington-Pyongyang summit. / Yonhap Defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States […]

A TV screen shows file footage of the demolition of a cooling tower at North Korea’s main reactor complex in Yongbyon in 2008 [File: AP] Nuclear monitoring website, 38 North, says Pyongyang continues ‘improvements to the infrastructure’ at Yongbyon. North Korea continues to carry out rapid improvements to its nuclear research facility, a nuclear monitor […]

© Mikhael Klimentyev / Sputnik Russia and US have agreed the date and time of the much anticipated talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Russian president’s adviser Yury Ushakov said, adding that details of the meeting will be revealed on Thursday. The two leaders are likely to meet midday and hold one-on-one negotiations, followed […]

Ethiopia is to start extracting the first ever natural gas deposit from Ethio-Somali Region as of tomorrow, The Reporterlearnt. It is to be recalled that back in March, 2018, Poly-GCL, a Chinese company engaged in oil and gas exploration and development project in the Ethio-Somali Regional State, has already discovered oil and natural gas deposits. The […]

Anders Breivik photographed in 2017. Photo: Lise Åserud / NTB scanpix The European Court of Human Rights dismissed on Thursday a complaint by Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who alleged his prison conditions were “inhumane”. Breivik is serving a 21-year sentence for the July 2011 mass murder of 77 people, most of them teenagers […]

The rescue ship MV Lifeline has allowed into Maltese territorial waters to shelter from the rough seas, Home Affairs Minister Michael Farrugia confirmed to The Malta Independent. The ship had requested permission to enter Maltese waters, saying that more migrants were suffering from seas-sickness. The ship still does not have permission to harbour in Malta, given that […]

A pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan said Wednesday that China will be able to keep away from international sanctions on the North following the recent launch of dialogue between Pyongyang and Washington. The Chosun Sinbo said in an article that the U.S.-led international sanctions on North Korea will face changes, as the North has risen […]

The Lifeline NGO rescue vessel at sea. Photo: Hermine Poschmann/Mission Lifeline/A A rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 200 migrants on board will finally dock in Malta, Italy said on Tuesday, as EU states remained at loggerheads over how to handle the influx of people trying to reach the continent. The German […]

It’s the first legal challenge by states over the practice. [Al Drago/EPA-EFE] Immigration authorities have separated about 2,300 children from their parents in recent weeks. Seventeen states, including Washington, New York and California, sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at […]