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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 […]

U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, attend a welcome ceremony at the State Guest House in Tokyo’s Akasaka district on Monday. | AFP-JIJI Visiting U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday met with family members of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents and pledged to […]

A young man barricaded himself inside a youth welfare office on Monday morning after taking an employee hostage. Special forces ended the situation several hours later without anyone sustaining serious injury. Police special forces in Pfaffenhofen. Photo: DPA  The hostage situation started in the town of Pfaffenhofen in Upper Bavaria at 8.30 am on Monday […]

North Korea: Radiation Leak Fears, International Double Standards and Trump’s Sudden Change of Plans Urgent warnings of a radiation leak have been issued after the collapse of a tunnel under North Korea’s 7,200 foot high Mount Mantap, under which the country tests their weapons systems. The accident, believed to have happened on 10th October – though it only came to […]