Trump seeks ‘very meaningful’ summit in Singapore with North Korea U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had high hopes of “doing something very meaningful” to curtail North Korea’s nuclear ambitions at a summit in Singapore next month, after Pyongyang smoothed the way for talks by freeing three American […]
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Israel strikes Iranian targets in Syria after rocket fire Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time in the most extensive military exchange ever between the two adversaries. It was the heaviest […]
Indonesia police say hostage crisis at high-security jail over A hostage crisis at a high-security jail in Indonesia ended on Thursday after Islamist militant prisoners who killed five police surrendered and released an officer they were holding, police said. The five members of an elite counter-terrorism force had been “sadistically” […]
Iran targets Israeli bases across Syrian frontier, Israel pounds Syria Iranian forces in Syria launched a rocket attack on Israeli army bases in the Golan Heights early on Thursday, Israel said, prompting one of the heaviest Israeli barrages in Syria since the conflict there began in 2011. The attack on […]
Irish women open up about abortion ahead of referendum Callahan, 35, and her partner Connor Upton were told 12 weeks into her pregnancy that the fetus had anencephaly, a rare condition that prevents the normal development of the brain. It meant the baby, who would have been their second child, […]
Trump Takes Aim at Kerry Again Ahead of Announcement on Iran Deal President Trump is again warning John Kerry, the former secretary of state, to keep out of discussions over whether to remain in the Iran nuclear deal — a decision the White House is expected to announce on Tuesday. […]
Vote results will protect Lebanon, speaker tells AFP Msaileh (Lebanon) (AFP) – Lebanon’s powerful parliament speaker Nabih Berri said Tuesday that the general election’s results vindicated a formula in which both the army and the Hezbollah militia guarantee the country’s protection. Polls held on Sunday, the first in nine years, […]
Armenia’s opposition leader named prime minister, and his supporters erupt in cheers After weeks of rallies and unrest, Armenia’s bloodless revolution secured victory Tuesday when parliament selected protest leader Nikol Pashinyan as prime minister, making a dramatic break with the ruling elite in the former Soviet country. Upon hearing the […]
Kim-Xi summit sends signal to Trump of China’s key role Beijing wants this week’s surprise China-North Korea summit to send the message to Washington that China remains crucial to a Korean Peninsula solution before the North’s Kim Jong Un holds a historic meeting with President Donald Trump, analysts say. Chinese […]
Trump axes the Iran deal and creates a new crisis The inevitable happened. On Tuesday, President Trump announced his administration’s intent to exit the nuclear deal with Iran, following through on a key campaign promise while shrugging off the desperate entreaties of European allies. In his remarks, Trump panned the […]
