A North Korean committee has sent an open letter to several international parliaments condemning the belligerent attitude of US President Donald Trump, a state-media report said on Monday. The letter sent on Sunday, whose recipients were not disclosed, by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly (North Korean Parliament) condemned the “ignorant” comments […]
At least one person died and seven others were wounded on Sunday in a mass shooting at a church in Tennessee, US, local police said. The incident took place about midday at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, about 15 km southeast of Nashville, Efe reported. On its Twitter account, the Nashville Police […]
A Russian lieutenant general was killed in a shelling launched by Islamic State (IS) militants in northeastern Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. “As a result of the sudden IS mortar shelling, Lt. Gen. Valery Asapov sustained a fatal injury,” Xinhua cited a ministry statement as saying. According to the document, Asapov was […]
The US has sent large shipments of military gears to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to help them in the battle against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria’s, the SDF said on Sunday. The large quantities of weapons aim to help the SDF in their fight to completely clear Raqqa from IS, said […]
An overwhelming majority of US citizens oppose a preemptive strike on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and trust US military leaders instead of President Donald Trump to handle the nuclear crisis responsibly, a poll revealed on Sunday. According to the Washington Post-ABC News poll, 67 per cent of US citizens believe that the […]
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior advisor Jared Kushner has occasionally used a private email account for correspondence with fellow administration officials, his lawyer confirmed. “Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business. “Fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned […]
US President Donald Trump has announced new travel restrictions for eight countries including North Korea, replacing the previous ban on six Muslim-majority countries, citing threats to national security posed by letting their citizens into Washington. Starting next month, most citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad, Venezuela and North Korea will be banned from […]
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has stressed on the importance of preserving the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, warning that its crumble would have spillover effects on non-proliferation and disarmament. “It is more important than ever that the international architecture for arms control and disarmament does not crumble. Existing treaties and agreements must not […]
Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to cosmetics firm L’Oreal, has died aged 94, her family has confirmed. A statement said she had died at home “peacefully” overnight, BBC reported on Thursday. With an estimated 2017 net worth of $40 billion, she was the world’s richest woman. She left the company’s board in 2012 and was rarely […]
US President Donald Trump is preparing to dismantle key former President Barack Obama-era limits on drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional battlefields, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations. The changes would lay the groundwork for possible counterterrorism missions in countries where Islamic militants are active but the US has not previously tried to […]