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FILE – Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman is pictured in Mogadishu, Somalia. The mayor died Aug. 1 of injuries suffered in a suicide bombing July 24. Mogadishu residents are mourning the loss of their mayor, who died Thursday of injuries suffered in a suicide bombing July 24 that killed at least six other people. Abdirahman Omar Osman, […]

Twenty years ago on Friday, Russian president Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin, then a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience of politics.  The departing Yeltsin was casting around for a successor and few could have predicted that two decades later Putin would still be ruling Russia, having […]

  People wave the Chinese national flag and the flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(HKSAR) at a pier in Tsim Sha Tsui of Hong Kong, south China, Aug. 8, 2019.(Xinhua/Lui Siu Wai) HONG KONG, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) — A group of Hong Kong residents gathered on Thursday morning at a pier of the […]

Turkey had previously accused the US of dragging its feet, and had demanded Washington sever its relations with the YPG [Mehmet Kocacik/AP] The Syrian government has called the agreementbetween Turkey and the United States regarding a safe zone in northern Syria a “blatant attack” on the country’s sovereignty. On Wednesday, Turkey and the US reached a deal to establish a joint operations […]

According to videos on social media and witnesses, small arms fire could be heard following the blast [Jamad Jalali/EPA-EFE] At least 14 people have been killed and more than 140 wounded after a Taliban suicide attack outside a police station in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul. The blast occurred about 9am (04:30 GMT) in western […]

People’s Liberation Army soldiers seen next to a howitzer during the International Army Games 2019 in Korla, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China Aug. 5, 2019. (Reuters photo) China said Tuesday that it “will not stand idly by” and will take countermeasures if the U.S. deploys intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region, which Washington has said […]

A panel that monitors United Nations sanctions on North Korea presented a report to the UN’s Security Council detailing how the country used up to $2bn to continue building its nuclear programmes [Alexander Khitrov/Reuters] North Korea has generated an estimated $2bn for its weapons of mass destruction programmes using “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyberattacks to steal from […]

North Korea launches two ballistic missiles, South Korea says Two SRBMs launched from DPRK’s South Hwanghae at 05:24 and 05:36 local time  Correction at 1700 KST: A previous version of this article said the missile had been launched from the DPRK’s east coast. It has been amended to correct that. North Korea is believed to […]

Mark Esper said on Tuesday that any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be “unacceptable.” (File photo: Reuters) US defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be “unacceptable” and the United States would prevent unilateral incursions, as tensions between Washington and Ankara simmer. On Sunday, President Tayyip Erdogan […]

In this Aug. 2 file photo, people at Seoul Station stand by a TV screen showing footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a news program. North Korea on Tuesday continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea while lashing out at the United States and […]