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Published by Reuters By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of country’s first confirmed outbreak of the pandemic. The data represents […]

Published by Reuters UK LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will have no choice but to take action unless the European Union shows more flexibility in talks over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told the EU on Thursday. “The Foreign Secretary … said the situation in Northern Ireland is a matter of

Published by Reuters By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – On Monday morning, hundreds of supporters gathered at the prime minister’s official residence in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital of Colombo where they urged Mahinda Rajapaksa not to resign. Arguably the country’s most powerful man, and scion of the dynasty to which his younger

Published by Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Asked if Russia would rule out a preemptive tactical nuclear strike on Ukraine, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday that a decision on the possible use of nuclear weapons was clearly set out in Russia’s military doctrine, RIA reported. “We have a military doctrine – everything is written

Published by Reuters UK TOKYO (Reuters) – The ballistic missile North Korea launched last week appears to be the same model as the submarine-launched missile Pyongyang tested last October, Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said on Tuesday. North Korea fired a ballistic missile from a submarine on Saturday, days before the inauguration of new South

Published by Reuters By Karen Lema and Tom Allard MANILA (Reuters) – Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. was 28 years old when a helicopter whisked his family from the Philippines’ presidential palace as millions of protesters demanded the ouster of his dictator father in a historic “people power” revolution. Just over 36 years later, the son

Published by DPA Israeli forces demolished the house of a Palestinian accused of murdering an Israeli settler in the northern West Bank on Saturday. The 25-year-old Israeli was killed on December 16 when the car he was travelling in was shot at. Two other people suffered injuries. The army subsequently arrested four Palestinian suspects. The

Published by Reuters By Joyce Lee and Kantaro Komiya SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, three days before the inauguration of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a hard line against the North. South Korean military said that North Korea fired what

Published by Al-Araby A majority of senators – 62, including 16 Democrats – oppose the nuclear-only Iran deal. On Wednesday, senators voted 62-33 in favour of a non-binding measure that opposes going into a deal with Iran with only the country’s nuclear programme and removing the terrorist designation from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The

Published by Reuters By Alun John and Selena Li HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asian shares tracked Wall Street gains on Thursday after the U.S. central bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points but sounded a less hawkish tone than some had feared, lifting investor sentiment and sending the dollar lower. Crude prices, meanwhile, shot