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Rebuilding with care: Kim Jong Un’s on-site scoldings spur drastic demolitions Factories, other major projects underwent redevelopment following leader’s visits last year Since last summer, a feature of North Korean state media coverage of some of Kim Jong Un’s site inspections across the country has been furious and direct criticism of officials at factories and […]

  Tourists stranded at Hong Kong International Airport sit and wait for information after 180 departures were cancelled on Monday because of protests. Photo: Sam Tsang Hundreds of passengers were left stranded at Hong Kong International Airport on Monday as thousands of protesters brought the transport hub to a grinding halt. With no airline employees […]

MNew regulation from the Trump administration represents the president’s most ambitious effort yet to restrict legal immigration as he gears up for his 2020 reelection campaign. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The Trump administration issued a final rule Monday that allows federal officials to deny green cards to legal immigrants who have received certain public benefits […]

Yang Guang, a spokesperson for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council on Monday strongly condemned radicals who threw petrol bombs at police officers Sunday night. Yang Guang, spokesman for the HKMAO, said Hong Kong’s radical […]

AA Photo The Joint Operation Center that will be established in cooperation between Turkey and the U.S. will become operational within the next few days, as first the party of U.S. personnel arrived in southeastern Turkey’s Şanlıurfa, National Defense Ministry said Monday. The ministry said six personnel arrived in Şanlıurfa to begin work on the […]

Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers can be seen training [AMISOM Public Information/Flickr] At least 16 al-Shabaab fighters were killed in Somalia after Somali special forces backed by Turkey trained forces attacked al-Shabaab positions in the region, state media said on Sunday, Anadolureports. The attack took place on al-Shabaab positions near the town of Awdhegle in Lower […]

© Israeli Navy זרוע הים Tehran has advised Israel to stay clear of the Persian Gulf, where the US has been struggling to amass an anti-Iranian armada, noting that every vessel illegally present in the region increases the risk of an all-out conflict. “Any illegitimate presence by the Zionists in the waters of the Persian […]

Pro-democracy demonstrators at the Hong Kong airport for a fourth day of protest on Monday [Vincent Thian/AP] Hong Kong airport has suspended all the remaining flights for Monday due to the ongoing pro-democracy protest in its terminal, according to airport authorities. Authorities said they were suspending departing and arriving flights at one of the world’s busiest […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches the test-fire of two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, in this undated picture released by North Korea’s Central News Agency on July 26. Reuters North Korea launched two more projectiles believed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, Saturday, according to the South Korean military, the latest […]

The already-strained relationship between Tehran and Washington ties worsened on 20 June, when Iran said that it had downed a US drone over Iranian soil. US President Trump then tweeted that he had halted a military strike against Iran 10 minutes before it was set to be carried out, upon learning that some 150 Iranians […]