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Turkey said it was unimpressed by US attempts to downplay a planned 30,000-strong, predominantly Kurdish border force in northern Syria. The Turkish foreign minister said the US had lied about supporting the Kurds in the past. FILE PHOTO: Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) head a convoy of U.S military vehicles in the […]

A reporter dealing with South Korean affairs in Pyongyang was part of the North Korean delegation taking part in vice-ministerial-level talks with the South, Wednesday. North Korean reporter Kim Kang-kuk reacts violently to a rally by activists condemning the poor human rights conditions in his country, during a visit to South Korea in 2003. / […]

S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Russia is helping North Korea evade international sanctions and that Pyongyang is getting “closer every day” to being able to deliver a long-range missile to the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an interview with Reuters at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 17, 2018. […]

FILE PHOTO: North Korea’s gymnast and South Korea’s listen to the national anthem as the North Korean flag rises © Claro Cortes / Reuters North and South Korea have agreed to form a unified women’s hockey team for the upcoming Winter Olympics, and will march under a unified flag at the opening ceremony, according to […]

Support for the Republican tax plan has ticked up slightly since President Donald Trump signed it into law, but it still hasn’t drawn the backing of a majority of voters, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The GOP’s top selling point for the tax plan recently — a spate of employee bonuses and wage […]

Dubay: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a directive to transfer $2 billion to Yemen’s central bank on Wednesday to “alleviate the suffering” of the Yemeni people. The bailout is expected to boost Yemen’s financial and economic situation while bolstering the Yemeni riyal. As the value of the riyal goes up, the living conditions of […]

China has criticized the US and Canada for holding a summit of nations, most of which supported Seoul during the 1950s war on the Korean Peninsula, saying evoking Cold War ghosts has no place in the world today. South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung-wha, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Canada’s Minister […]

International NGOs have condemned the US government’s decision to cut more than half of its planned funding to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.  Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a Twitter post late on Tuesday that Washington was “holding Palestinian kids’ humanitarian needs hostage to political agendas”. Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian […]

RIYADH: The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh held on Tuesday its first trial session of twins who killed their mother and tried to kill their father and brother on the orders of Daesh. Khaled and Saleh The public prosecution asked for the death penalty against the twins, Khaled and Saleh. The public prosecutor accused them […]

  Image captionSteve Bannon (centre) attended a House Intelligence Committee closed door meeting on Tuesday Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to US President Donald Trump, has been summoned to testify before a grand jury, US media report. He was reportedly subpoenaed by former FBI director Robert Mueller, who is leading an inquiry into alleged collusion […]