Kurdish leader departs, leaving nephew faced with reconciliation
Reuters, Erbil Iraq :Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani departed office on Wednesday, leaving his nephew to reconcile with the central government in Baghdad, with regional...
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World set to bust global warming goal, but UN cool on threat from Trump
Reuters, Geneva :Greenhouse gas emissions are on course to be about 30 percent above the 2030 global target, but there are signs of a move...
Rifts, recriminations among Catalonia`s separatists
AFP, Barcelona :Catalonia’s secessionist politicians have admitted that the region’s independence declaration failed and recriminations have started to fly.Five days after the Catalan parliament proclaimed...
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Putin arrives in Iran to discuss Syria, nuclear dealReuters, TehranRussian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Iran on Wednesday to meet with top leaders as tension...
South Korea will not accept a nuclear North, President Moon says
Reuters, Seoul :South Korea will never tolerate North Korea as a nuclear state, nor will Seoul have nuclear weapons, President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday,...
Pakistan plans to build several new nuclear reactors
Reuters, Abu Dhabi :Pakistan plans to build at least three to four big reactors as it targets nuclear power capacity of 8,800 megawatts (MW) by...
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Trump, Abe to work together on N KoreaReuters. Tokyo President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to work together on steps to...
North Korea may drop N-bomb on Europe, NATO chief
Reuters, Tokyo :NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg urged all United Nation members on Tuesday to fully and transparently implement sanctions against North Korea, which he said...
China, South Korea agree to mend ties after THAAD standoff
Reuters, Seoul/Beijing :Seoul and Beijing on Tuesday agreed to move beyond a year-long stand-off over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea,...
Siege fears as Australia asylum-seeker camp in PNG closes
AFP, Sydney : Hundreds of asylum-seekers were refusing to leave an Australian detention camp in Papua New Guinea that authorities closed Tuesday, citing fears for their...
Catalan ex-leader to speak in Brussels as asylum rumours grow
AP, Brussels :Catalonia’s ousted regional president will give a news conference in Brussels on Tuesday, European officials said, as speculation mounted that he might seek...
Top US officials say Trump needs no new authority to fight terror
AFP, Washington :President Donald Trump’s top military and foreign policy advisers insisted Monday that he has no need for a new Congressional authority to allow...