SEOUL, Mar 18 (Xinhua): South Korea's defense ministry said on Monday that it will push for military talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) this year to draw up measures for the implementation of the military agreement.The ministry made the announcement in the work report to the parliamentary...
Read moreNEW YORK, Mar 18(Al Jazeera): More than a year before the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, approved a secret campaign to silence dissenters, the New York Times has reported.The campaign included surveillance, kidnapping, detention and torture of Saudis,...
Read moreCHRISTCHURCH, Mar 18 (Agencies): He spent just three years on this earth, but in some ways, a friend said, he seemed like an old soul. Before he became the youngest known victim of Christchurch's mass shooting, three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim had possessed intelligence beyond his age, and an affinity for his...
Read moreTEHRAN, Mar 18 (Agencies): Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that the government would file a legal case in Iran against US officials who imposed sanctions on the country as a precursor to action in international courts.Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television that US sanctions...
Read moreST LOUIS, Mar 18 (AP): Residents in parts of southwestern Iowa were forced out of their homes on Sunday as a torrent of Missouri River water flowed over and through levees, putting them in a situation similar to hundreds of people in neighboring Nebraska who have been displaced by the...
Read moreBEIJING, Mar 18 (AP): China has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists and has broken up hundreds of "terrorist gangs" in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said in a report Monday issued to counter criticism of internment camps and other oppressive security in the traditionally Islamic region.The lengthy...
Read moreSINGAPORE, Mar 18 (AFP): A Singaporean couple was on Monday jailed for abusing a Myanmar maid after the pair force-fed her with a funnel, made her eat her own vomit and threatened to kill her family if she reported the maltreatment.In a case described by Singapore prosecutors as "arguably one...
Read moreTBILISI, Mar 18 (AFP): Georgian and NATO forces on Monday launched joint military exercises as part of the ex-Soviet country's bid to win membership in the 29-nation alliance that has infuriated its old master Russia.Held at the Krtsanisi Georgia-NATO Joint Training and Evaluation Centre outside the capital Tbilisi, the 12-day...
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