PYONGYANG, June 04 (Agencies): North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior US official said.The analysts said on Monday could support efforts by the North's young leader to jump-start economic development and engage with the world.Kim Jong Un is preparing for a high-stakes summit...
Read moreAMMAN, June 04 (AFP): Jordanian Prime Minister (PM) Hani Mulki resigned on Monday after days of anti-austerity protests by citizens suffering from high unemployment and repeated prices hikes.Mulki was summoned by King Abdullah II after the capital Amman and several other cities were rocked by protests that drew thousands of...
Read moreSAN JUAN ALOTENANGO (Guatemala), June 04 (Reuters): An estimated 25 people, including at least three children, were killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano.Volcan de Fuego, whose name means "Volcano of Fire", spewed an eight-kilometre (five-mile) stream of red hot lava...
Read moreNEW DELHI, June 04 (Xinhua): An Indian military plane carrying External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to Mauritius enroute to South Africa for the BRICS ministerial meeting went incommunicado for 14 minutes on Saturday evening, triggering a major mid-air scare.Swaraj plane took off from the southern Indian state of Kerala's capital...
Read moreLJUBLJANA, June 04 (Reuters): An anti-immigration opposition party won Slovenia's parliamentary election on Sunday, taking 25 per cent of the vote, according to preliminary results.However, the centre-right Slovenia Democratic Party (SDS) of former Prime Minister Janez Jansa may struggle to pull together a government as its hardline stance on immigration...
Read moreKABUL, June 04 (Agencies): At least seven people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber detonated near a gathering of top clerics in Afghanistan's capital Kabul.Ghafor Aziz, police chief of Kabul's 5th District, says the blast was caused by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives near the entrance...
Read moreJERUSALEM, June 04 (AP): Israel said it plans to deduct from tax funds it collects for the Palestinians the amount needed to compensate Israelis living near the Gaza Strip.Israel has been battling fires caused by kites rigged with incendiary devices launched by Palestinians in Gaza that have damaged forests and...
Read moreLOS ANGELES, June 04 (AFP): A woman opened fire in downtown San Diego and was taken into custody Sunday as thousands of people participated in the California city's marathon nearby.As officers responded, a policeman was injured by an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the leg, the San Diego Police Department...
Read moreUS first lady not going to Canada, SingaporeWASHINGTON, June 04: US First Lady Melania Trump will not accompany the president to the Group of Seven summit in Canada, nor to the planned North Korea nuclear talks in Singapore, her spokeswoman said Sunday. Melania Trump was hospitalised in May, undergoing an...
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