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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Monday the government’s utmost efforts to ensure the safety of residents in four western Japan prefectures over which North Korea recently said its missiles could fly en route to waters off the U.S. territory of Guam. Accepting a written request from Shimane Gov Zembee Mizoguchi urging the central government to […]

A 13-year-old girl is dead and four others are badly hurt after a car was deliberately driven into a restaurant east of Paris. Investigators were quick to rule out a terrorism link to the attack – so what do we know so far? What happened? In the early evening on Monday, a car was rammed […]

Saudi Arabia’s Justice Ministry has approved four decisions in support of women’s rights in the past ten days, the Saudi Okaz daily reported. The decisions pertain to protecting minors, divorcees, women who have custody of their children and law graduates who have not practiced the profession yet due to male lawyers’ arbitrariness. Legislative authorities approved 10 proceedings […]

 Johannesburg – A Johannesburg mother wants Grace Mugabe thrown in jail for allegedly going berserk and beating up her 20-year-old daughter at a Sandton hotel at the weekend. An incensed Debbie Engels, the mother of Gabriella – who was allegedly assaulted by Zimbabwe’s first lady – told The Star on Monday that her daughter was […]

The first ever artificial esophagus transplant took place this year in the United States. Now the doctors want to cure more patients. Two Italian doctors, Fabio Triolo and Saverio la Francesca, implanted the esophagus, also known as the food pipe or the gullet, on a 75-year-old US cancer patient. “The organ seems to work well […]

The football headlines in Germany were once again dominated by fan violence on Monday, after supporters at a cup match involving Berlin’s Hertha BSC forced the game to be suspended twice. At a cup match on Monday between Hertha BSC, one of the top team’s in the country, and third division minnows Hansa Rostock, the […]

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström said she hoped the US and North Korea would ‘come to their senses’ before their increasingly heated rhetoric leads the two nations into a nuclear war. Wallström expressed serious concern over the most recent escalation and urged the international community to “thoroughly implement” the latest round of UN sanctions against […]

 The United States is ready to use the “full range” of its capabilities if provoked by North Korea, the country’s top military officer said, noting that Washington is still hoping for a “peaceful resolution” to the crisis. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear on Monday that Air […]