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IAEA continuing to monitor activities around North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre The agency has been largely monitoring North Korea’s nuclear activities through satellite imagery Kim Jong-un last year said he was willing to take measures towards his countryʼs denuclearisation VIENNA, Austria – IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said Tuesday that the agency was […]

While Turkey continues diplomatic negotiations with the U.S. over a safe zone, Ankara has ensured all military preparations are made for a possible operation to clear YPG terrorists from its borders. The U.S. may keep a number of troops behind in Syria as uncertainty lingers over a clear withdrawal plan in Washington. For Turkey, however, […]

Ilhan Omar is seen in the audience before US President Donald Trump”s State of the Union address at the US Capitol [File: Mandel Ngan/AFP] Resolution condemns anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim bias, bigotry against minorities ‘as hateful expressions of intolerance’. The House of Representatives in the United States on Thursday voted to condemn anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination and other bigotry against minorities, with […]

The families of ISIL fighters are believed to be among the latest civilians to flee [Bulent Kilic/AFP]  US-backed Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria captured 400 ISIL fighters who were trying to escape the armed group’s last enclave in eastern Syria. A senior commander for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) also said on Wednesday that hundreds more Islamic […]

Saudi sisters Rawan (in yellow), 18, and Reem, 20, (both using adopted aliases) stand next to each other during an interview with AFP in Hong Kong. (AFP Photo) Two Saudi sisters marooned in Hong Kong after fleeing their family have been granted an extended stay in the city until next month, their law firm said […]

  Although State House had not released a statement on the outcome of the meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Somalia’s Mohammed Abdullahi by the time of writing this article, the Ethiopian Premier said the duo agreed to address issues that have led to the escalation of tensions between the two countries/PSCU NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar […]

Mockup of the Buran-Energia space system. © Sputnik / Sergey Mamontov Russian space agency Roscosmos is considering building a spaceplane powered by a nuclear reactor, according to a memo obtained by a Russian news agency. The move could “reshape” the market for space launches, the document says. A rocket plane is an aircraft powered by […]

The Sohae Satellite Launching Station launch pad features what researchers of Beyond Parallel, a CSIS project, describe as showing the partially rebuilt rail-mounted rocket transfer structure in a commercial satellite image taken over Tongchang-ri, North Korea on March 2 [CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe 2019 via Reuters] North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site it had […]

Women walk with children near the village of Baghouz in the Deir Az Zor province [File: Rodi Said/Reuters] Thousands of people, including armed fighters, have left the last area held by ISIL in Syria, a spokesperson for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said. Mostafa Bali of the SDF tweeted that about 3,000 people had come out of the […]