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The Gibraltar Government on Thursday released the Iranian supertanker Grace 1, which was seized on July 4 on suspicion it was shipping 2.1m barrels of crude oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions. Gibraltar said it had evidence the ship was bound for Syria when it was detained, but that Iran had now provided […]

This photo released by North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Aug. 10 shows North Korea test firing a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) which resembles the U.S. Army’s tactical missile system. North Korea again fired two projectiles speculated to be SRBMs Friday, Seoul’s JCS said, six days after the previous launch. KCNA-Yonhap North […]

Passengers are seen at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, south China, Aug. 14, 2019. Airport Authority Hong Kong said earlier Wednesday that it has obtained an interim injunction to restrain persons from unlawfully and willfully obstructing or interfering with the proper use of the airport. (Xinhua/Wang Shen) HONG KONG, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — […]

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army continued its mop-up operations to purge the demilitarized zone in Northern Syria of terrorists, and regained full control of over 30 regions there. Idlib, Hama The Syrian Documents Center news website reported that the Syrian Army has liberated 34 towns and villages covering an area of 1000 square kilometers in […]

File Photo There is a relation between a person’s blood group and the possibility of developing cancer, a recent study by Swedish scholars has revealed. Scientists from the Karolinska Institute of Sweden have evaluated and analyzed the data of more than one million people over a period of 35 years, a report said. The findings […]

President Donald Trump has ignored advice from national security adviser John Bolton and others on China. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump’s top aides are urging him to back Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters, but the president isn’t interested, multiple people familiar with the administration’s internal debates say. In recent days, national security adviser John Bolton, […]

All three major US indexes closed down about three percent on Wednesday as recession fears gripped the market [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters] Wall Street sold off sharply on Wednesday as recession fears gripped the market after the United States Treasury yield curve temporarily inverted for the first time in 12 years. All three major US indexes closed down […]

© Olga Shavrova/TASS MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. A total of 23 people were taken to the hospital following the crash landing of an Ural Airlines flight en route from Moscow to Crimea’s Simferopol in the Moscow region, the Russian Health Ministry said in a statement. Outpatient assistance has been provided to 22 people who suffered […]

As a result of two series of explosions of ammo on the territory of the military unit near the city of Achinsk, the Krasnoyarsk region (Siberia), 33 people were injured, one was killed. Explosions that ripped through the arms depot on August 5 killed one person on the scene and injured 15 others. Explosions continued […]

Gil Won-ok, one of the survivors of Japanese military’s sexual slavery, thanks protestors for participating in the 1400th weekly protest in front of the former Japanese embassy in Seoul, Wednesday, asking them to “fight to the end.” Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul The 1,400th weekly protest against Japan’s wartime sex slavery drew thousands of […]