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North Korea is carrying out rapid improvements to its nuclear research facility, a monitor said on Wednesday, despite declaring a commitment to denuclearisation of the peninsula at the Singapore summit. The nuclear-armed North’s leader Kim .... Read more via Channels Television –...

Washington (AFP) – Donald Trump threatened Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe he would ship 25 million Mexicans to his country, one of a series of bizarre missives that jarred fellow leaders at last week’s acrimonious G7 meet, according to a report on Friday. … Read more via Yahoo News –...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s triumphant assertions about the success of the unprecedented Singapore summit are being met with skepticism and outright derision from critics seizing on the contradiction between his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and his willingness to accept...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has congratulated the leadership of both the United States of America (USA) and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) for hosting a successful summit, describing the feat as a historic achievement. The federal government in a statement signed by …...

Pentagon officials were surprised Tuesday after President Donald Trump vowed at his summit with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un to cancel “provocative” joint military drills with South Korea. Following the unprecedented meeting in Singapore, Trump stunned observers when he said continuing the...

It was a moment that few would have foreseen at the end of 2017, a year in which Washington and Pyongyang traded threats of nuclear war amid repeated North Korean weapons test. The much anticipated summit, the culmination of months of back-room meetings, proved a highly choreographed and...

In what international affairs analysts described as “Landmark Diplomatic Leap Frog,” the maverick United States President, Donald J. Trump and North Korean strongman, Kim Jong Un, meet today in Singapore, in a historic summit. Already, tongues are beginning to wag and palpable anxiety...

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have become the first sitting US president and North Korean leader to meet, an unprecedented development after a year of exchanging threats. The pair shook hands at a … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2y30sHZ Get more World News

With the meeting of President Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea on Tuesday in Singapore, human rights groups are watching for Mr. Trump to bring up North Korea’s widespread crimes against humanity. Mr. Kim rules with extreme brutality, making his nation among...... Read more via NYT >...

SINGAPORE ― Playing host to one of the 21st century’s most highly watched diplomatic meetings comes with a hefty price tag, as Singapore has discovered. The host nation of Tuesday’s U.S.-North Korea summit has shelled out $20 million Singapore dollars, or about $15 … Read more via Yahoo...

A former US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer has been arrested for attempting to spy on the US for China. Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, was arrested by the FBI on his way to a Seattle airport to catch a flight to China. The justice department says Mr Hansen … Read more via BBC News –...

China has warned that all trade talks between Beijing and Washington will be void if the US sets up trade sanctions. After talks between Vice Premier Liu … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2Jb8b80 Get more World News

A Catholic Church archdiocese in the US state of Minnesota reached a $210 million settlement Thursday with hundreds of victims of clergy abuse, resolving a years-long battle. The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2015 citing its exposure to an...

A yet-to-be identified 27 year-old Nigerian is awaiting extradition by Poland to the United States over an estimated $7m cybercrime. The Nigerian was arrested by Poland’s police in the southwestern city of Wroclaw in connection with alleged cyberfraud and extortion done over the internet. The...

North Korea has said it is still willing to talk "at any time in any form" after US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled his meeting with Kim Jong-un. Vice-foreign … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2IPaptt Get more World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday as U.S. officials try to assess North Korea’s intentions after Pyongyang threatened to pull out of a planned June 12 summit to discuss denuclearization. Moon’s White House visit was intended...

US President Donald Trump has contradicted his own national security adviser, saying the so-called "Libya model" for denuclearisation is not being pursued with North Korea. The suggestion by John Bolton angered the North, which threatened to pull out of a summit with Mr Trump next ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that the United States will “lose in the end” for withdrawing from the landmark nuclear deal with Iran. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pulled the United States out of the agreement and reimposed sanctions........ Read more via...

The dollar weakened against its major peers Tuesday ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting as the shaky global economy weighs on hopes for a summer US rate hike, with a Bank of Japan gathering also in focus. Dealers are hoping the Federal will provide clues about the state of the world's biggest...