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North Korean women in Pyongyang, the capital. Many women in the North who have found work as traders are subjected to sexual coercion, Human Rights Watch said in a report Thursday.CreditCreditDita Alangkara/Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — Since Kim Jong-un took power in 2011, North Korea has eased restrictions on markets, allowing many families to make […]

The French President has warned Europe of a return to the 1930s because of the spread of a nationalist “leprosy” across the continent, in an interview published Thursday. He also warned that Europe risked losing its sovereignty if it is “pushed around by foreign powers.” “I am struck by similarities between the times we live […]

JAKARTA (Bloomberg): The Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia earlier this week, with the presumed loss of 189 lives, had experienced problems with the sensors used to calculate altitude and speed on its previous flight, an issue that could help explain why the plane dove into the water. Pilots on […]

President Hassan Rouhani referred on Wednesday to the 13th of Aban in the Iranian calendar (Nov. 4), which marks the anniversary of Iranian university students’ seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, saying it was basically the day of fighting capitulation for the independence of the Iranian nation against US aggression. Speaking in […]

In this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo, an Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File) Tehran strategic networks under attack, Hadashot TV says, hours after Israel revealed it tipped off Denmark about Iran murder […]

Retired Nevada Democratic senator Harry Reid said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump “can tweet whatever he wants while he sits around watching TV, but he is profoundly wrong” about revoking birthright citizenship. | AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File Harry Reid on Wednesday said Donald Trump is “profoundly wrong” after the president quoted his 1993 position […]

The head of the Saudi investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Attorney General Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb (L) leaves the Saudi-Arabian consulate by car in Istanbul on Oct. 30, 2018. (AFP Photo) Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled to death as soon as he entered Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate and his body was then dismembered […]

Netanyahu shook hands with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman [Israel GPO/Handout via Reuters] It was a scene unthinkable just weeks ago: an Israeli Cabinet minister, tears of joy filling her eyes, proudly singing her country’s national anthem at a sports event in the heart of the Arab world. The spectacle of Miri Regev singing […]

A former senior commander of the East African terrorist group al-Shabaab has launched a campaign to become a regional president in SomaliaMukhtar Robow, also known as Abu Mansour, was the target of a $5 million US bounty before he defected from the Islamist group in 2013 and surrendered to the Somali government last year. He […]

Aasia Bibi. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted Aasia Bibi – a Christian woman accused of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to death – and set aside an earlier judgment passed by a lower court. Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, heading the three-member bench comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel, […]