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, […]

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 […]

Japan and North Korea should talk, South Korea’s Moon says “In particular, I think dialogue between Japan and North Korea should be resumed,” Moon said in the interview with the Yomiuri newspaper. “If Japan-North Korea relations are normalised, that would greatly contribute to peace and security in Northeast Asia beyond […]

Mueller rejects Trump request to answer questions in writing Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is now on President Trump’s legal team, told CBS News correspondent Paula Reid Monday afternoon that special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has rejected proposals to allow Mr. Trump to answer questions from investigators in […]