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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will convene on Friday to discuss developments in Syria’s Idlib, U.S. envoy to the U.N. Nikki Haley said late Tuesday. Syria could be spared its bloodiest battle yet if the Russian and Turkish presidents talk to each other urgently about resolving the situation in the opposition-held region of Idlib, […]

There is a risk for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in relying on a Republican-controlled Congress to block any North American trade deal that does not include Canada.  (EVAN VUCCI / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO) WASHINGTON—The Trump administration said the deadline for a NAFTA deal was the end of 2017. It wasn’t. Negotiations continued into 2018, as if there […]

A Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet arriving from Syria lands at an airbase in Krasnodar region, southern Russia, in this March 16, 2016 handout photo by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (Reuters Photo) Russian warplanes on Tuesday resumed airstrikes on Syria’s northwestern Idlib province after a 22-day break, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human […]

National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong, right, and National Intelligence Service Director Suh Hoon talk ahead of a special security meeting at Cheong Wa Dae, Tuesday. Yonhap The head of the President Moon Jae-in’s five-member special delegation said late Tuesday the envoys will discuss plans to establish a permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula, the […]

High waves are observed at a fishing port in Aki, Kochi Prefecture, on Tuesday as Typhoon Jebi approaches western Japan. | KY Typhoon Jebi — the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years — slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, killing at least two, disrupting transportation, heavily damaging the bridge that leads to […]

  Idlib province is the last major rebel stronghold fighting al-Assad [Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE] US President Donald Trump has warned the Syrian government against launching an attack on rebel-held Idlib province amid concerns that the planned offensive will create a new humanitarian crisis. “President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians and Iranians […]

Attention is focused on North Korea’s next possible offer in the denuclearization process, with President Moon Jae-in’s envoys set to visit Pyongyang on Wednesday. Cheong Wa Dae said denuclearization is on the agenda, along with discussions about the summit between Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un this month, means to develop inter-Korean relations and […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech themed “walk together towards prosperity” at the opening ceremony of the High-level Dialogue Between Chinese and African Leaders and Business Representa112112 comments awaiting moderationtives as well as the Sixth Conference of Chinese and African Entrepreneurs in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2018. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) BEIJING, Sept. […]

 Mohamed Mahamoud Sheik, who was murdered in August this year. Photograph: Handout Dozens of young people wearing white headbands took to the streets of Mogadishu this month. They walked through the city demanding justice for the young entrepreneur Mohamed Mahamoud Sheik. Sheik, a businessman known for bringing flowers to Somalia, was shot and killed on 2 […]

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Secretary-General António Guterres. Condemning the escalation of violence in and around the Libyan capital, Tripoli, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on all parties to immediately cease hostilities and grant humanitarian relief to those in need. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Secretary-General Guterres raised particular alarm over the use of indiscriminate shelling […]