BEIRUT: Lebanon’s three top leaders gathered Wednesday to celebrate the country’s 74th Independence Day, meeting for the first time since Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his resignation earlier in the month. President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Hariri assembled at Shafiq Wazzan Avenue in Beirut’s Central District, where military ... Read More »
What if there were a new leader of her Christian Democrat movement with a more sceptical view of the value of freedom of labour? The departure of “mutti”, or “mummy”, as the Germans like to call their head of government, would, you’d imagine, be bad for Europe, and for Germany ... Read More »
BEIRUT: Pope Francis prayed for the stability of Lebanon during a mass held at the Vatican Sunday, the state-run National News Agency reported. As many as 6,000 people attended the mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, during which Francis renewed his “appeal from the heart to the international ... Read More »
Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis descended into outright chaos on Sunday after president Robert Mugabe failed to announce his resignation as widely expected in a national address on live television. Instead, in a rambling 30 minute address, Mugabe offered no concessions to his critics, the tens of thousands who marched calling for ... Read More »
Soldiers and armoured cars block roads to government offices in Harare Zimbabwe’s military said it had seized power in a targeted assault on “criminals” around President Robert Mugabe who were causing social and economic suffering, but gave assurances the 93-year-old leader and his family were “safe and sound”. Zimbabwean ... Read More »
NORTH Korea has warned that “nuclear war may break out at any moment” due to “reckless moves of aggression” from the US, the hermit kingdom has stated. KCNA, Kim Jong-un’s state-controlled media mouthpiece, has launched a renewed threat of annihilation to the world in response to joint military ... Read More »
If a conflict between North Korea and the United States suddenly broke out, U.S. troops in South Korea would be “outnumbered” and undersupplied, warns Lt. Gen. Jan-Marc Jouas, the former deputy commander of U.S. Forces in Korea. “The 28,500 U.S. Armed Forces personnel in South Korea are vastly outnumbered by North Korean forces, ... Read More »
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United States of trying to interfere with Russia’s presidential campaign in retaliation for what the Kremlin dismisses as unfounded U.S. allegations that Moscow interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential vote. On the eve of a possible meeting with President Trump at ... Read More »
The president calls the leadership of Kim Jong-un a ‘cult‘ President Donald Trump has said that North Korea should not make the “fatal” mistake of underestimating the US and its allies by continuing its nuclear programme and extreme rhetoric. “Today, I hope I speak not only for our countries, but for ... Read More »
North Korea’s underground nuclear test site has turned the surrounding area to wasteland and caused defects among newborn babies, defectors have reported About 80 percent of trees that are planted die, and underground wells have also run dry, 21 defectors who used to live in Kilju county, the location ... Read More »
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