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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Missile strikes overnight in central Syria killed at least 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, a monitor said Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the missiles struck a military base in the province of Hama late Sunday, in an assault it said bore the hallmarks of an Israeli operation. “At least 26 fighters were killed, including four Syrians,” the monitor said, adding that the main target of the missile […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The photograph was seen around the world: US President Donald Trump and France’s Emmanuel Macron, gilded spades in hand, shoveling dirt over a young sapling. A week ago, at the beginning of Macron’s visit to Washington, the French president joined his American counterpart to throw handfuls of soil on the roots of a young oak tree as their respective first ladies looked on It was a symbolic gesture: the tree […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) –Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit North Korea this week, his office said Monday, days after the leaders of the two Koreas held a landmark summit. Wang will be in the neighboring country at the invitation of his North Korean counterpart on Wednesday and Thursday, the foreign ministry said in a brief statement. He will be the first Chinese foreign minister to visit the North since 2007, a lapse that highlights […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd resigned on Sunday amid claims she misled lawmakers over whether her department held targets for removing illegal immigrants in the country. “The prime minister has tonight accepted the resignation of the home secretary,” said a spokesman for the office of premier Theresa May. Rudd telephoned May to inform her of the decision following a week of intensifying pressure over an immigration scandal and increasing calls for […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — Some “enemy missiles” targeted the Syrian regime’s military positions in the provinces of Hama and Aleppo late Sunday, the official SANA news agency reported, without identifying the attackers. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights monitor confirmed the firing of missiles, adding that “Iranian elements” were stationed at two of the targeted bases. The Observatory could not immediately say whether there were any casualties, nor who was responsible for the missile strikes. […]
by Jung Hawon with Mandel Ngan in Washington, Michigan Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has promised to shut its atomic test site within weeks and invite American weapons experts to verify its closure, Seoul reported Sunday, as new US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington had an “obligation” to pursue peace. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — who may meet US President Donald Trump as early as next […]
By Caesar R. Vallejos Eagle News Service YALTA, Republic of Crimea (Eagle News) — Crimea can be the best tourism hub in the world or a global financial center, Indian Business Alliance President Sammy Kotwani said at the 4th Yalta International Economic Forum. “The city can become like Hong Kong or global financial center,” Kotwani told eaglenews.ph. He is one of the panelists at the session on the integration of Crimea into global trade last […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would move the country’s clocks 30 minutes forward to unify with the South’s time zone as a conciliatory gesture after Friday’s inter-Korean summit, Seoul said Sunday. The two countries on the divided peninsula have had different time zones since 2015 when the North suddenly changed its standard time to 30 minutes behind the South. Pyongyang cited a nationalistic rationale, saying it would […]
by Jung Hawon / With Mandel Egan in Washington, Michigan © Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite US weapons experts to the country, Seoul said Sunday, as Donald Trump expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal in his summit with the secretive regime. The reported pledge from the North’s leader Kim Jong Un follows weeks of whirlwind diplomacy that saw […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Saturday that “things are going very well” after talking with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in about an upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Just had a long and very good talk with President Moon of South Korea. Things are going very well, time and location of meeting with North Korea is being set,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Also spoke to Prime […]
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Three people have been arrested in Israel in connection with the deaths of 10 young hikers in flash floods during a program to prepare them for military service, police said Friday. The ten students, mostly aged 17 and 18, were caught up in floods while hiking in the Arabah desert in southern Israel following exceptionally heavy rainfall. They were part of a group of around 25 hikers taking part in the […]
