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MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Washington has no intention of unleashing a war against Pyongyang using its regional allies, Georgy Toloraya, Director of the Russian Strategy in Asia Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economics, told TASS on Wednesday © Boris Kavashkin/TASS “The Americans have no such conspiracy plans to unleash a war using […]

Picketers block a road in to Barcelona on November 8th. Photo: Pau Barrena/AFP Roads and railways in Catalonia have been brought to a halt by a general strike protesting for the freedom of politicians and campaigners currently detained over the region’s pro-independence drive. On Wednesday morning the A-2 and AP-7 highways were closed at several […]

President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan accompany US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, to watch a Peking Opera performance at the Palace Museum’s Pavilion of Cheerful Melodies (Changyin ge) on Wednesday. * The Pavilion of Cheerful Melodies (Changyin ge), built in the Qianlong Period (1736-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), is the largest […]

FILE PHOTO: Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand gua “Instead of a genuine fight against terrorist groups we see a simulation of this fight while uncontrolled arms deliveries grow. One day the weapons go to so-called ‘moderate opposition’ in this or that place, and the next day they are […]

South Korea will begin talks with the United States to purchase the latter’s strategic arms, such as surveillance assets and nuclear-powered submarine, Cheong Wa Dae said after a summit between the leaders of the two nations, Tuesday. President Moon Jaein listens to U.S. President Donald Trump during a joint press conference after their summit at Cheong Wa Dae, Tuesday. South Korea is the second stop of the U.S. president’s five-nation Asian tour. He departs for China today. / Korea Times photo by Koh Young-kwon. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on the South’s purchase of cutting-edge […]

Russia’s nuclear deterrence is strong enough to ensure a “level of unacceptable damage” to any potential aggressor, the Chief of the General Staff has said. Reporting on the state of the Russian strategic nuclear forces on Tuesday, General Valery Gerasimov said some 74 percent of the arsenal employed cutting-edge technology. YARS solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile. […]

Hundreds of civilians have returned to a battered district of Syria’s Raqa in what a US-backed force said was the first wave of returns since it cleared explosives left by militants. A family arrives to check on their house in Raqa on October 20, 2017. (AFP) The ISIS group lost control of Raqqa – once […]

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 […]