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FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a military drill in Pyongyang. © KCNA / Reuters Pyongyang says it is the time to “annihilate” the US and turn it into “ashes” for initiating the latest round of sanctions. The North has also threatened Washington’s allies in the region, vowing to “sink” Japan and […]

President Trump meets Sept. 6 with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House. (Evan Vucci/AP) Democratic leaders announced late Wednesday that they agreed with President Trump to pursue a legislative deal that would protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation and […]

Led by Fatemeh Khavari, refugees and their supporters have been holding a sit-down strike in Stockholm for over a month, protesting deportations to Afghanistan. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT What drives someone to spend over a month sleeping outdoors in protest? The Local spent 24 hours with refugee youngsters on Stockholm’s streets to find out why they […]

A wide view of the Security Council Chamber as Michael Keating (left on screen), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), briefs the Council via video link. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe 13 September 2017 – Highlighting complex immediate and long-term challenges in Somalia, the head of the United […]

Media captionFlorida nursing home survivors evacuated Six people at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma have died. Police evacuated 115 residents on Wednesday from the facility, whose air conditioning was cut by the storm. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said three were found dead at the nursing […]

Would-be immigrants atop a border fence separating Morocco from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla. Photo: AFP The number of migrants arriving in Spain so far this year has soared more than 88 percent from the same period in 2016, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said on Tuesday. Speaking in a parliamentary commission on […]

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14. KCNA / Reuters   A radioactive gas, xenon-133, has been detected from the recent North Korean nuclear test, the South’s nuclear watchdog said, adding that it is still unclear whether it was from a hydrogen bomb test as Pyongyang claimed. Read […]

School students with their mobiles. AFP French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has touched off a public debate about banning phones in schools as he seeks to implement a campaign pledge by President Emmanuel Macron. In an interview with Express magazine, the minister suggested that pupils might be asked to deposit their phones in secure boxes […]

Deir Ezzor/Homs, SANA – Syrian Arab Army units continued operations to secure the perimeter of Deir Ezzor Military Airport and Regiment 137, in conjunction with concentrated operations to eliminate ISIS terrorists form the province’s southeastern countryside. SANA’s correspondent said that an army unit that established control over al-Thurda Mountains and met with the Airport’s garrison a few days […]