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Mao Xinyu, left, became the youngest Major General of the People’s Liberation Army of China, according to Chinese newspaper Ming Pao in Hong Kong, August 2010. / Korea Times file Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong’s only grandson Mao Xinyu was possibly killed in a bus crash in North Korea in April that killed over 30 […]

Protestors flee from clouds of teargas during a demonstration on the sidelines of a march for the annual May Day workers’ rally in Paris on May 1, 2018. (AFP Photo) French riot police used water cannon and teargas on Tuesday against hundreds of hooded protesters after they smashed shop windows and hurled petrol bombs at […]

French President Emmanuel Macron leaves his presidential Airbus A330-200: Photo: Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP Fresh from meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, Macron touched down for the first foray Down Under by a French leader since François Hollande came to Brisbane for a G20 summit four years ago. His advisers said he […]

Tehran’s dismissal comes as US calls Netanyahu speech ‘compelling’ even as EU official says no proof Iran violated deal. Tehran’s dismissal comes as US calls Netanyahu speech ‘compelling’ even as EU official says no proof Iran violated deal. Iran’s top officials have bristled at the Israeli prime minister’s allegations that Tehran secretly pursued a nuclear weapons programme, […]

We need lawmakers who will put America First,” President Donald Trump concluded in his Monday tweet. | Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump continued his attacks against Sen. Jon Tester on Monday, accusing the Montana Democrat of being soft on immigration as news reports indicate that a group of immigrants has been stalled from entering […]

  The Turkish foreign ministry denied a report published on Euronews claiming that Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu condemned the recent U.S.-led joint airstrikes on the Assad regime. In a statement released on Monday, the ministry said that the report “is not true and constitutes a mere attempt of manipulation.” “Minister Çavuşoğlu has made no such […]

French President Emmanuel Macron has stepped up his efforts to save the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement which is on the edge of collapse because of the US threats to withdraw from the deal. Following his talks with the Iranian president on Sunday, President Macron called his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Monday and underlined the […]

President Donald Trump, right, reaches out to shake hands with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, left, during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 30, 2018. (AP Photo) U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he wanted to deepen ties with Nigeria, adding that previous statements he had […]

Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference at the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv. (Reuters) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he had new “proof” of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons programme, as the US considers whether to quit a landmark atomic accord that Israel opposes. The Israeli premier, who has […]