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, […]

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 […]