North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time next week, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reports. The Russian leader is expected to travel to his country’s far eastern region, near the North Korean border, on his way to Beijing for meetings on China’s Belt and Road Initiative…
(ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia) — Far from the din of Washington, Ivanka Trump toured businesses run by women in Ethiopia on Sunday while promoting a White House global economic program for women. President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser visited a coffee shop and textile company in Addis Ababa. It was her first stop in Africa…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday he’s ready for a fourth summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to help salvage faltering nuclear negotiations between the North and the United States.Moon’s comments came after Kim issued his harshest criticism yet of South Korea’s diplomatic role last week, accusing…
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the president of Zimbabwe, appealed to the country’s dwindling white population to help rebuild the country in an unprecedented bid to court minority voters ahead of a tightly contested presidential election. Mr Mnangagwa, whose ruling ZANU-PF party was responsible for the often violent eviction of thousands of white farmers in the early 2000s,…
President Donald Trump has backtracked on his administration’s plans to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons within a year, announcing on Tuesday that there is now “no time limit” on the denuclearisation of Kim Jong-un’s regime. Speaking to reporters during a meeting with members of Congress at the White House on Tuesday, Mr Trump…
More than 210,000 people have signed a petition on the web site of the South Korean president’s office demanding that an “abominable” gay pride festival scheduled to take place in central Seoul this weekend be cancelled. The three-day Seoul Queer Culture Festival is marking its 19th anniversary this year and will include art exhibitions and…
With its head and snout covered in bony armor shaped like cones and pyramids, a spiky tank-like dinosaur unearthed in southern Utah was not just another pretty face. Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of fossils of a dinosaur named Akainacephalus johnsoni that lived 76 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. It was a…
Israel’s parliament has passed a divisive law declaring that only Jews have the right to “national self-determination” in Israel, prompting angry accusations from Arab citizens that the government is formally codifying racism. The law, known as the nation state bill, passed by a narrow 62-55 margin early on Thursday morning after hours of fractious debate…
Dozens of Syrians approached the Israeli frontier on the Golan Heights on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to seek help or sanctuary from a Russian-backed Syrian army offensive, before turning back after a warning from Israeli forces. Tens of thousands of Syrians have arrived near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the past month, fleeing a…
The North Korean restaurant manager who defected from China with 12 female staff in 2016 has claimed that he was tricked into fleeing to South Korea and later blackmailed by Seoul’s intelligence services. The claims by Ho Kang-il, made in an interview with Yonhap News Agency, add weight to suggestions that the 13 North Koreans…