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  • US Vice President Mike Pence surrounded by the children and family members of White House staff.
    N. Korea slams ‘ignorant and stupid’ Pence
    SOUTH KOREA: North Korea called US Vice-President Mike Pence “ignorant and stupid” for his warnings over a planned summit with Donald Trump, renewing a threat to cancel as...
  • Donald Trump has clocked up 103 visits to a golf course as President.
    Donald Trump may extend UK visit to play golf
    US: US President Donald Trump may extend his controversial visit to the UK, with the US President understood to be considering a longer stay in order to play golf.The...
  • File photo of North Korea’s Hwasong-12 missile launch last year.
    N. KOREA DISMANTLES NUCLEAR TEST SITE
    SOUTH KOREA: North Korea has dismantled its nuclear test site, media invited to attend the ceremony said Thursday, in a carefully choreographed move portrayed by the isolated...
  • People bow as they pay their respects before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, at Mansu hill in Pyongyang. Thousands of North Korean devotees laid flowers before statues of the country’s founder Kim Il Sung on the anniversary of his birth. Current leader Kim Jong Un is the third of the dynasty to head the nuclear-armed country. - AFP
    North Korea preps nuclear site demolition
    SOUTH KOREA: Invited foreign journalists gathered in North Korea on Wednesday to witness the slated destruction of the reclusive regime’s nuclear test site, a high profile...
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  • Heatwave kills at least 65 in Pakistan
     Hotter than average temperatures have killed at least 65 people in just three days in Karachi, Pakistan.Temperatures reached a high of 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) on Monday, according...
  • Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s headquarters in Putrajaya, Malaysia yesterday. - BLOOMBERG
    Najib quizzed over financial scandal
    MALAYSIA: Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak was questioned by anti-corruption authorities Tuesday over a financial scandal after his shock election loss, as the country’s top graft fighter revealed...
  • Hawaii volcano lava reaches ocean
    US: Authorities in Hawaii have warned of dangerous “laze” fumes as molten lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano reached the Pacific Ocean.Two lava flows “reached the ocean along the southeast Puna...
  • Venezuelan President Maduro wins re-election
     President Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential election Sunday, in a vote that has been criticized both inside and outside of the country. Maduro celebrated...
  • Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle ride a horse-drawn carriage, after their wedding ceremony at St. George’s Chapel on Saturday.
    Harry and Meghan shake up Royal tradition
    UK: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot at Windsor Castle on Saturday in a royal wedding like no other, mixing British pomp and African-American culture in front of a celebrity congregation...
  • US, China agree to abandon trade war
    CHINA: Washington and Beijing have agreed to abandon any trade war and back off from imposing tariffs on each other, Chinese state media reported on Sunday.The announcement came after high-level...
  • US President Donald Trump talks to journalists during a meeting at the Oval Office with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday.
    Donald Trump tells Kim Jong-un: ‘Denuclearisation’ or ‘Decimation’
    US: United States President Donald Trump has threatened North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with “decimation,” unless he agrees to denuclearise the Korean peninsula.With the June 12 US-North Korea summit...
  • Gina Haspel confirmed as first ever female CIA director
     Gina Haspel has been confirmed as the next CIA director, making her the first woman to lead the intelligence agency.Haspel had faced opposition in the US Senate over her controversial role...
  • US President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
    N. Korea’s threat to cancel summit: Trump says ‘we’ll see’
    US: US President Donald Trump sounded a note of caution on Wednesday about his much-vaunted summit with Kim Jong Un, saying “we'll see” after Pyongyang threatened to cancel.Trump said the US...
  • The car has been personally signed by the Pope.
    Pope sells his Lamborghini
    VATICAN CITY: A Lamborghini supercar owned by Pope Francis has been sold for nearly four times its original asking price. The 198 mph two-seater Hurrican, which would typically be worth around £155,...
  • Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim freed from jail after Mahathir election win
     Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim has been freed from jail, paving the way for his return to politics.Once seen as a potential future leader, he had been jailed on charges of sodomy and...
  • The royal wedding is a moment of light relief for a Britain weighed down by political, social and economic woes. - AFP
    ROYAL WEDDING A BOOST FOR BRITAIN
    UK: The royal wedding of Prince Harry and his glamorous fiancee Meghan Markle is a moment of light relief for a Britain weighed down by political, social and economic woes.With growth shrinking and...