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The commercial airplane that crashed today in Havana had 110 persons on board. Photo: AFP HAVANA TIMES – A commercial plane with 104 passengers and six crew members on board crashed today shortly after taking off from Havana’s international airport. The official newspaper, Granma, informed that three persons survived the accident, although they are in […]

© Mikhael Klimentyev / Sputnik Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin held a joint media conference in Sochi following a meeting. It comes as the US exerts pressure on Berlin to reduce the purchase of Russian natural gas in favor of American supplies. The two leaders had been critical of the Trump administration’s decision to violate a […]

Law enforcement officers arriving at Santa Fe High School [HCSO/Handout via Reuters] [Daylife] At least eight people have been killed in a shooting at a high school in the US state of Texas, according to local police. The incident took place on Friday morning at Santa Fe High School, located about 50km southeast of Houston. […]

President Trump at the White House on May 17, 2018. (Reuters) President Donald Trump is defending his use of the word “animals” to describe some immigrants who enter the country illegally, saying he would continue to use the term to refer to violent gang members despite a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders. Answering a reporter’s […]

Doctors say former Russian spy Sergei Skripal has been discharged from a hospital, more than two months after he was poisoned with a nerve agent. Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious in the English city of Salisbury on March 4, and spent weeks in critical condition. Yulia recovered more quickly than her father […]

President Donald Trump has hit back at comments by the European Council President Donald Tusk who said the US could no longer be relied upon. At the start of the EU summit in Bulgaria, Tusk said “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” Trump was asked about the comments at a cabinet meeting attended by […]

North Korea has not responded to the Seoul government’s list of journalists chosen to attend the ceremony for the dismantlement of its nuclear test site, the unification ministry said Friday. “The government tried to notify (North Korea of the names of) our journalists who will cover the event for the nuclear test site dismantlement in […]

A June 12 meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un appears to be in danger after rise in rhetoric [Reuters] US President Donald Trump offered North Korea‘s Kim Jong-un guarantees of staying in power if he abandons nuclear weapons, but warned he could end up like Libya’s former leader if he doesn’t. In an effort to […]

U.S. stealth fighter, F-22 Raptor, takes off at a ROK airbase in Gwangju on the first day of the two-week Max Thunder joint exercise last Friday. North Korea abruptly postponed high-level dialogue slated for Wednesday, citing the participation of F-22 and other strategic assets that can attack the North. / Yonhap North Korea on Wednesday […]