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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to shut down the country’s nuclear test site in May and open the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul’s presidential office said Sunday. © Korea Summit Press Pool, AFP | This picture taken on April 27, 2018 shows North Korea’s […]

Suh Hoon, left, chief of South Korea’s national intelligence agency, wipes away tears as the leaders of the two Koreas announce the “Panmunjeom Declaration.” Suh played a key role in arranging the inter-Korean summit. / Joint Press Corps  Myriad photos and videos capturing symbolic moments of last week’s inter-Korean summit are flooding the internet. You […]

Lavrov and his Turkish and Iranian counterparts discussed how to end Syria’s war [Grigory Dukor/Reuters] Russian foreign minister says US, UK and France ignoring international law after recent missile attacks in Syria. Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, has accused the US of trying to divide Syria while ignoring international law by launching missiles into the country. Lavrov made the accusations on […]

Pompeo was received upon his arrival by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. (SPA) Recently confirmed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in the Saudi capital of Riyadh to begin his first regional tour as his country’s top diplomat. Pompeo arrived in Brussels about 12 hours after he was sworn in as secretary of […]

Political scientist Cornelius Adebahr, a research fellow at Carnegie Europe, spoke to Euronews about what may be in store if the US pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal. Nearly four months ago, US President Donald Trump delivered an ultimatum on the Iranian nuclear deal to the three EU partners: “Either fix the deal’s disastrous […]

Turkey, which saw 32.4 million tourists coming to the country in 2017, looks to welcome 40 million tourists this year. Turkey welcomed around 5.1 million tourists in the first three months of this year, with an increase of around 35-36 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, which is an all-time high […]

A wounded demonstrator is evacuated during the protest near the Israel-Gaza border on Friday [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters] Four Palestinian protesters killed and more than 950 wounded as Israeli forces again open fire at Gaza border. Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian demonstrators and wounded more than 950 at the Gaza border, despite the UN human rights chief urging Israel to stop […]

A tribute to Betty Forsyth, 94, at the Olive Square memorial for the victims of Monday’s van rampage.  (STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR) Eight women and two men, ranging in age from 22 to 94. They are Renuka Amarasingha, Andrea Bradden, Geraldine Brady, Sohe Chung, Anne Marie D’Amico, Chul Min “Eddie” Kang, Ji Hun Kim, Betty Forsyth, Munir […]

The Prime Minister invited Xi to India for a similar “informal summit” in 2019, to which the Chinese premier expressed hope that they will be able to meet in similar Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for India on Saturday after holding the two-day informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. PM […]

© John Thys, AFP | US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo gives a press conference during a NATO Foreign ministers’ meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on April 27, 2018. New US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took aim at Germany over its defence spending on Friday, using his first NATO meeting to push […]