Sessions excludes domestic, gang violence from asylum claims
AP, San Diego :Immigration judges generally cannot consider domestic and gang violence as grounds for asylum, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in a...
International
Trump`s vow to end military drills with Seoul stuns a region
AP, Singapore :President Donald Trump on Tuesday rocked a region and suggested the upending of decades of U.S. defense posture on the Korean Peninsula when...
US unveils ‘milestone’ new de facto embassy in Taiwan
AFP, Taipei :The United States on Tuesday unveiled a new $255 million de facto embassy in Taiwan in what was hailed as a “milestone” in...
N Korean, US officials air differences on eve of summit; Trump stays positive
Reuters, Singapore :US President Donald Trump said on Monday his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore could “work out very...
News In Brief
41 killed, 14 injured in Afghan violenceXinhua, KabulThirty-four militants and seven police were killed and 14 people were wounded in daily violence in Afghanistan, authorities...
Iran ‘highly sceptical’ on US-North Korea nuclear talks
AFP, Tehran :Iran said Monday that it remains dubious about the prospects for talks between the United States and North Korea, and warned Pyongyang to...
Kim, Trump in countdown to historic summit
AFP :Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un were making last-minute preparations Monday on the eve of their historic summit, as officials scrambled to narrow yawning...
Opposites, rivals, heirs, negotiators: Trump and Kim
AFP :The summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will be among the most improbable diplomatic encounters in history, featuring principals who could not...
Trump’s G7 bust-up shows risks for North Korea summit
AFP, Singapore :Donald Trump’s spectacular bust-up with America’s closest allies at the G7 raises the already high political stakes for Tuesday’s summit with Kim Jong...
Putin dismisses G7 criticism as ‘babbling’, calls for cooperation
AFP, Qingdao, China :Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday dismissed criticism by the Group of 7 nations as “creative babbling” and said it was time...
Saudi Arabia to host meeting over Jordan economic crisis
Al Jazeera News :Saudi Arabia will host a regional summit to discuss the ongoing economic crisis in Jordan, where a proposed income tax rise recently...
Kim Jong arrives in Singapore for historic summit with Trump
AFP, Singapore :North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore Sunday for an unprecedented summit with Donald Trump, an attempt to address the last...