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Western strikes hit bases, chemical research centres around Damascus: monitor

Western strikes early Saturday hit Syrian military bases and chemical research centres in and around the capital, a monitor said, as the US announced a joint operation against the Damascus government...

April 14, 2018
World News
Key quotes from Trump's address on Syria

President Donald Trump late Friday announced the launch of a joint US-British-French operation targeting Syria's "criminal" regime in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack that he called a "sig...

April 14, 2018
World News
257 dead in Algeria military plane crash: official

ALGIERS, Algeria -- An Algerian military plane crashed and caught fire on Wednesday killing 257 people, mostly army personnel and members of their families, officials said. An AFP photographer at th...

April 11, 2018
World News
N. Korean FM makes rare Moscow visit amid diplomatic thaw

MOSCOW -- North Korea’s foreign minister held rare talks with his Russian counterpart in Moscow on Tuesday, as Pyongyang moves to improve strained ties with its neighbors. Ri Yong-ho’s visit came ah...

April 11, 2018
North Korea
China says US trade talks currently ‘impossible’

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- China warned on Monday that trade talks with the United States were “impossible” under current conditions after President Donald Trump reassured markets by suggesting that the...

April 9, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] Brazil's Lula surrenders to serve prison sentence

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil -- Brazil's election frontrunner and leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in Saturday to start a 12-year sentence for corruption after a chaotic attempt...

April 8, 2018
World News
Defence in Kim Jong Nam trial casts doubt on poison test lab

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia -- The laboratory that tested the nerve agent allegedly used to assassinate the North Korean leader's half-brother was not on the list of centres approved by the global chemical w...

April 5, 2018
World News
'Not in a trade war with China' says Trump

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States is not in a trade war with China, as both sides shake global markets with tit-for-tat actions. "We are not in a trade war with China, that ...

April 4, 2018
World News
China slaps retaliatory tariffs on 128 US products

BEIJING -- China on Monday imposed tariffs on 128 US imports worth $3 billion, including fruit and pork, retaliating for US duties on steel and aluminium that Beijing said “seriously infringed” Chine...

April 2, 2018
International
Kim Jong-un says N. Korea to take part in 2020, 2022 Olympics: IOC chief

Kim Jong-un is committed to sending North Korean teams to the next two Olympics, the IOC chief Thomas Bach said Saturday after a rare meeting with the leader of the nuclear-armed regime in Pyongyang....

March 31, 2018
North Korea
UN blacklists dozens of ships, businesses over N. Korea smuggling

The UN Security Council on Friday blacklisted 27 ships, 21 companies and a businessman for helping North Korea circumvent sanctions, as the United States keeps up pressure on Pyongyang despite its re...

March 31, 2018
North Korea
Kim says China visit is 'solemn duty', invites Xi: KCNA

North Korea's Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping that it was his "solemn duty" to make Beijing his first overseas destination and invited him to visit Pyongyang, the North's official news ...

March 28, 2018
North Korea
Stocks surge on receding trade war fears, reported Kim visit

A wave of optimism flowed across stock markets on Tuesday, building on Wall Street's gains the previous session, as fears of a US-China trade war receded. Speculation that Kim Jong Un paid a surpris...

March 27, 2018
World News
64 dead in Russian shopping mall inferno

MOSCOW -- A total of 64 people some of them children perished in a fire that ravaged a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia, as rescue teams Monday struggled through piles of charred r...

March 26, 2018
World News
China threatens US with tariffs, says 'not afraid of trade war'

BEIJING (AFP) -- China warned the United States on Friday that it was "not afraid of a trade war" as it threatened tariffs on $3 billion worth of US goods in retaliation over President Donald Trump's...

March 23, 2018
World News

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