Number of North Korean Defectors Drops as Pyongyang Locks Down Border
As North Korea tightens control over the border it shares with China, the number of defectors headed for South Korea has seen a sharp decline.
As North Korea tightens control over the border it shares with China, the number of defectors headed for South Korea has seen a sharp decline.
The US military has announced that it is acting in an “advise, assist and accompany” role for the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that are currently besieging Raqqa, Daesh’s final major stronghold in Syria.
The White House believes Congressman Brad Sherman's article of impeachment against President Donald Trump over obstruction of justice is absurd, spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a press briefing on Wednesday.
Russia is concerned about the attack on Russian tourists in Abkhazia and hopes that the perpetrators would be soon found and prosecuted, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Western countries backed Moldova's cabinet both financially and "geopolitically" despite its corrupt practices to prevent Russia from gaining influence in the country, according to Moldova's President.
When asked which country posed the greatest threat to US national security, the majority of respondents to a new survey went with North Korea, ranking Daesh militants second and the big scary Russian boogeyman in third place.
The German federal government will cover the half of the compensation for damages suffered by Hamburg residents during anti-globalist protests that took place in the city during the G20 summit, Finanznachrichten news portal reported Wednesday.
Vietnam has opened a portal where importers and exporters can get information on a maze of overlapping trade laws and regulations, according to the World Bank press release.
The US Department of State paid $15,000 for accommodation at the Trump hotel when the property opened in Canada earlier this year, documents from the agency revealed on Wednesday.
All 17 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee in a letter on Wednesday asked US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to explain why the Justice Department settled a fraud case handled by Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer at the center of a controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr.
Israel is not going to interfere in the situation in Syria, but will not allow the strengthening of Iran in the south of the country, according to Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
US Customs and Border Protection agents inspecting packages in the mail facility at New York’s JFK International Airport found eight illegal reptiles, including five poisonous King Cobra snakes.
An Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldier was indicted on Wednesday on charges of sexually assaulting a female soldier in his mixed-gender combat battalion. The alleged incident occurred in June during a social outing, according to an IDF statement.
The senate of the Netherlands on Wednesday approved a new surveillance law that will give the country’s secret services broad tapping powers, local media reported.
Experts from Russia, the United States and Israel will discuss the situation around the deescalation zone in the southwest of Syria at a meeting in Vienna, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Lieberman said in an interview with Russia's Kommersant newspaper posted on its website on Wednesday.
A fistfight broke out between a Lebanese Islamist cleric and a former Syrian member of Parliament on television. The latter attacked the former after the former refused to offer condolences to the MP for his cousin being executed by Daesh.
The plan approved by the Senate Republicans to replace the US healthcare system known as Obamacare will increase spending for participants in the low-income coverage program Medicaid by at least $265 billion between 2018 and 2026, White House said in a press release on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday there are many areas besides Syria where the United States and Russia can cooperate and that would be a welcomed development.
The ranks of China’s People’s Liberation Army will shrink from 2.3 million soldiers to less than a million troops, the official newspaper of the Chinese military reported on Wednesday.
When North Korea tested its first successful intercontinental ballistic on July 4, US forces had a “very easy shot at killing Kim and didn’t,” Stratfor Asia Pacific consultant Rodger Baker told Business Insider.
On Friday, Kenya kicked off the construction of its first special economic zone in Eldoret, a joint program between Kenya-based company Africa Economic Zone and China's Guangdong New South Group.
The US Navy announced that it will commission a new Burke-class guided missile destroyer this week. According to a statement released by the Navy, the USS John Finn will be brought into service at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor on July 15 in a ceremony overseen by Admiral Harry Harris, head of US Pacific Command (USPACOM).
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The United States has allocated $25 million of security assistance to Ukraine in July, the US embassy in Kiev said on Wednesday.
An officer of the Syrian Army revealed details of the military operation to liberate the city of Raqqa in an interview with Sputnik Arabic.