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WASHINGTON, D.C. ― South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for bipartisan effort in resolving North Korea’s nuclear program issue to the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, Thursday. In a meeting with them on the sideline of his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., Moon exchanged key issues […]

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says ISIL’s “state of falsehood” has ended after Iraqi forces retook the wrecked landmark mosque in Mosul from where the armed group proclaimed its self-styled caliphate exactly three years ago. Seizing the 850-year-old Grand al-Nuri Mosque hands a symbolic victory to the Iraqi forces who have been battling for more than […]

Half of all naturalisation hopefuls that took Denmark’s citizenship test in June failed. Only one in two of the thousands of people that took the citizenship test (indfødsretsprøven) at language centres across the country in June managed to pass, according to Ministry of Immigration figures. 49.8 percent passed the test by correctly answering at least […]

As North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un steps up the rate of his hi-tech missile tests, schoolchildren in the hermit kingdom are reportedly being forced to cut class to water crops that are dying in a severe drought. According to a report on Radio Free Asia’s Korean service, high school and college students in the north of […]

President Michel Temer was not inside the building when a minor rammed his vehicle into the presidential palace gate. A car has rammed the gate of the Brazilian president’s palace as calls grow on Michel Temer to resign amid a corruption scandal and single-digit popularity. A statement from Temer’s office said that a vehicle drove […]

The Iraqi Army said on Wednesday that it has recaptured two neighborhoods – Al-Sadeh and Al-Ahmadiya – in Mosul’s Old City. Al Arabiya News Channel also reported on Wednesday that ISIS militants are hiding in few houses loaded with explosives as the countdown to liberate a small remaining portion of the militant-occupied Iraqi city of […]

Moscow has warned the US against taking unilateral action in Syria, as there is no threat from the Syrian military, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said. The statement comes after the US accused Syria of preparing for a chemical attack, without giving any evidence. Asked if Russia had warned the US administration against any unilateral action in […]

Six suspected members of the Isis terror group were arrested in Spain, Britain and Germany on Wednesday in an operation led by Spanish authorities investigating a jihadist recruiting network, the Spanish interior ministry said. Raids were continuing Wednesday morning targeting the group, based on the island of Majorca and led by an Islamist imam, who […]