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A scene from “The Bloodbath of Stockholm”. Photo: Miriam Ventura/Stockholm English Speaking Theatre The Old Town in Sweden’s capital is about to relive the most infamous massacre in its history as a theatre company re-enacts the grim events known as the “Stockholm Bloodbath”, where Denmark’s king seized the city in brutally violent fashion. A scene […]

Ursula von der Leyen. Photo: DPA Poland on Monday accused Germany’s defence minister of calling on Poles to engage in anti-government activity, labelling it “unacceptable”. Ursula von der Leyen sparked the row when she told a German television talk show that “the healthy democratic resistance of the young generation in Poland needs to be supported”. […]

Saudi Arabia has barred Yemen’s president, along with his sons, ministers and military officials, from returning home for months, Yemeni officials told The Associated Press. Hadi and much of his government have been in the Saudi capital Riyadh for most of the war [File: Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP The officials said the ban was prompted by enmity […]

Tokyo:Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s golf diplomacy with U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to help him convince the Japanese public he has a firm grip on bilateral relations, but the four remaining stops on Trump’s Asia tour could yet present challenges to that perception, analysts say. U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo […]

Former secretary of state John Kerry on Monday warned the US Congress that it would be “extraordinarily dangerous” for it to reject the Iran nuclear deal that he helped broker. President Donald Trump last month decertified Iran’s compliance with the 2015 agreement, but stopped short of scrapping the deal outright, instead handing the issue over […]

China launched the first satellites in the third generation of its Beidou Navigation Satellite System on Sunday night in the first step of establishing a vast positioning and navigation network with global coverage. Two third-generation Beidou satellites were lifted atop a Long March 3B carrier rocket at 7:45 pm from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in […]

Saudi minister of Gulf affairs, Thamer al-Sabhan, said on Monday that Lebanon had declared war against Saudi Arabia because of what he described as aggression against the Kingdom by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah. Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for Gulf affairs, Thamer al-Sabhan, said that Saudi Arabia would not accept Lebanon declaring a war on […]

The Turkish embassy in Washington denied that Turkey had given assurances to U.S. authorities about ongoing cases in the country. Turkish embassy in Washington, DC The statement came after a statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Ankara, which said that U.S. received initial high-level assurances from Turkey that there were no additional local employees […]

The Yomiuri ShimbunPrime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed that Japan and the United States would take the initiative to exert maximum pressure on North Korea, at a bilateral meeting held Monday at the State Guest House in Tokyo’s Motoakasaka district. MPrime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands […]

Catalonia’s sacked separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on Monday denounced Spain as an undemocratic country that “unjustly” jailed his colleagues, his first reaction since he was freed on bail in Belgium. This file photo shows Puigdemont addressing the Press Club in Brussels on October 31st. Photo: AFP Puigdemont and four former ministers were released with conditions […]