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F35 warplanes (Reuters Photo) Three U.S. senators, James Lankford, Thom Tillis and Jeanne Shaheen proposed a bill late Thursday in a bid to prevent sale of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to Turkey over rapprochement with Russia, pastor Andrew Brunson jailing and the so-called “disregard for the rule of law” of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. […]

South and North Koreas will make efforts to hold tripartite talks with the United States or talks including China for a goal to declare the formal end of the Korean War (1950-53) this year and establish permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula, President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced, Friday. In a […]

Macron warned that the jihadists “use all contemporary forms of financing”. Photo: AFP French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called for more cooperation to deny jihadist movements the financing they need to carry out attacks, as dozens of ministers met to discuss how to cut off funds for extremists. France’s top anti-terror prosecutor, Francois Molins, […]

Iran says two of its leading airlines have purchased a collective of 40 Sukhoi SuperJet 100 planes from Russia thus ending speculations over a purchase scheme that had been in the offing for the past few years. The purchases were made by Aseman Airlines and Iran Air Tours and the related documents were signed on […]

AFP Photo U.S. President Donald Trump will travel to Britain in July for a working visit with Prime Minister Theresa May, after months of back-and-forth over when the U.S. president would visit what traditionally has been the U.S.’ closest ally. Representatives for the White House and 10 Downing Street said Trump would visit the United […]

tudents hold posters with pictures of South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un during a pro-unification rally ahead of the upcoming summit between North and South Korea in Seoul, South Korea April 26, 2018 © Jorge Silva / Reuters After a decade-long pause, the two Koreas are holding a top-level […]

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters. (File photo: AP Israel’s envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday that Iran had recruited at least 80,000 Shiite fighters which it was training at a base just over five miles from Damascus. Holding up a […]

Journalists cover a statement from prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen. Photo: Nikolai Linares/Scanpix The murder of journalist Kim Wall has sent Denmark tumbling down the freedom of press rankings, with the country dropping five places to sit behind Jamaica. Reporters without Borders said that Denmark had been “overshadowed” by Wall’s grisly murder in the 2018 press rankings, published […]

Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump in Hamburg last year. Photo: DPA German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits US President Donald Trump on Friday for a last-ditch European effort to prevent a transatlantic trade war and save the Iran nuclear deal. Merkel’s working trip is expected to be far more business-like than this week’s pomp-filled state […]

MEarthquake and Volcano of the Korea Monitoring Division Director Ryoo Yong-gyu speaks to the media about North Korea’s artificial earthquake with a map of the Korean peninsular in Seoul, South Korea (AP File Photo) Earthquake and Volcano of the Korea Monitoring Division Director Ryoo Yong-gyu speaks to the media about North Korea’s artificial earthquake with […]