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  • People watching as coverage of an ICBM missile test is displayed on a screen in a public square in Pyongyang.- AFP
    North Korea tests new ‘ultramodern tactical weapon’
    SOUTH KOREA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the testing of a “newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon”, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday, in a move...
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May addressing Parliament.
    May wins Cabinet backing for Brexit deal
    UK: British Prime Minister Theresa May won the support of her bitterly divided cabinet on Wednesday for a draft divorce deal with the European Union that has put both Brexit...
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel
    Merkel calls for European Army
    FRANCE: German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Tuesday for an integrated European Union military, echoing language used by French President Emmanuel Macron last week that...
  • Pyongyang’s missile programme is moving forward at small undeclared sites, says new report.
    North Korea ‘hiding missile bases’- Study
    US: North Korea is operating at least 13 undeclared bases to hide mobile, nuclear-capable missiles, a new study asserted Monday, as progress stalls on US President Donald...
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  • UK says ‘small number’ of issues remain for Brexit deal
    EU: officials published a contingency plan on Tuesday for a 'no-deal' Brexit as negotiators scrambled to secure agreement in the next 24 hours, even as Britain said there were still a “small number”...
  • CNN sues White House over barring of reporter
    CNN sued Donald Trump's administration Tuesday, alleging the White House violated journalist Jim Acosta's constitutional rights by revoking his press credentials following a heated exchange with the...
  • Macron advisor says Trump tweets ‘written for Americans’
    An advisor to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday dismissed a flurry of angry tweets from US President Donald Trump about his French counterpart, saying they were “written for Americans”.Macron's office...
  • German prosecutors probing ‘illegal’ donations to AfD
    German prosecutors are looking into foreign campaign donations made to the far-right AfD party ahead of the last election, Der Spiegel weekly reported Tuesday, as pressure grows on co-leader Alice...
  • The Camp Fire burns along a ridge top near Big Bend, California.
    Several California infernos bring more deaths
    US: The number of dead in a wildfire raging in California has reached 29, matching the deadliest in the state’s history as recovery teams found six more bodies in the grim search through the wreckage...
  • A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through the town of Paradise, California.
    Paradise lost in raging California fires
    US: Rescue workers recovered multiple bodies on Saturday from the charred remains of residences in a California town ravaged by the most destructive fire to hit the US state.Firefighters are battling...
  • Heavy smog blanketed New Delhi on Wednesday.
    Delhi bans trucks as megacity chokes
    INDIA: Delhi authorities have imposed a three-day ban on trucks entering the world’s most polluted major city as its 20 million inhabitants wheezed in the toxic annual winter smog.With levels of air...
  • House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California smiles as she is cheered by a crowd of Democratic supporters during an election night returns event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, on Tuesday.
    Trump to Democrats: ‘Let’s work together’
    US: US President Donald Trump urged Democrats on Wednesday to “put partisanship aside” as he bluntly warned them against using their newfound control of the US House of Representatives to tie up his...
  • Woman who spent 16m at Harrods bailed
    An Azerbaijani woman who spent 16 million at London's up-market Harrods department store and was the first to be targeted by new British legislation on “unexplained wealth” was freed on bail Thursday...
  • Still hundreds of miles from the U.S. border for these three migrants.
    Migrant caravan rests, regroups in Mexico City
    MEXICO: A caravan of Central American migrants that has drawn frequent Twitter tirades from President Donald Trump ahead of the US midterm elections rested and regrouped Monday at a stadium-turned-...
  • Trump petitions SC in effort to kill ‘Dreamers’ programme
    The Trump administration is seeking the conservative-leaning Supreme Court's endorsement to kill the “Dreamers” programme, which protects about 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who arrived in the...
  • What’s at stake at today’s U.S. midterm elections
    US: Americans head to the polls today (Tuesday) for midterm elections with President Donald Trump’s Republican party seeking to retain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.Midterm...