Speaking from the Cabinet Room, President announced on Monday that we’ve secured significant diplomatic achievements in Iran. Thanks to the Iran nuclear agreement, Iran can no longer develop a nuclear weapon. And this morning, four Americans were officially freed from…
Some North Korean loudspeakers at the inter-Korean border are pointed toward the North, not the South, a South Korean network reported on Sunday.Recently, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff asked for professional advice from a sound engineering researcher as to…
The US has imposed fresh sanctions on Iranian companies and individuals over a recent ballistic missile test. The new sanctions prevent 11 entities and individuals linked to the missile programme from using the US banking system.
By Mairead Maguire In November 2015 I visited Syria together with an International Peace delegation. This was my third visit to Syria in the last three years. As on previous occasions I was moved by the spirit of resilience and…
Dhaka – Public university teachers who have been on a movement to realise their four-point demand will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday. “A delegation of the Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers Association (FBUTA) will go to Ganobhaban at…
Police in India’s Madhya Pradesh state have arrested some members of a Hindu group for attacking a Muslim couple on suspicion that they were carrying beef. The police said the couple was in a train when members of the Gauraksha…
Who, if anyone, is coordinating the military, diplomatic plans the regime is carrying out? Andrei Lankov The January 6 North Korean nuclear test is much in the news these days, even though so far the situation seems very much like…
South’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Friday that China has expressed intent to participate in the United Nations Security Council’s sanctions against North Korea.China’s agreement reportedly took place in a working-level defense policy meeting with South Korea.“During the meeting…
By Reuters News Agency Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, police said, in an attack that followed a threat by Islamic State fighters to put the country in their “spotlight.”…
Dhaka – Voicing their utmost desire to return to classrooms, leaders of Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers Association (FBUTA) on Thursday said the ongoing crisis over ‘salary discrimination’ in the 8th pay scale’ could be resolved quickly with the Prime…
At least two people were killed after armed men carried out gun and bomb attacks in the heart of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.Five attackers also died, police said. A manhunt is underway for other suspects.Information on the toll varied…
New Delhi: The reported detention of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar could offer Prime Minister Narendra Modi political cover, at least in the immediate context, against criticism that his Lahore diplomacy was a miscalculation and repudiated his strong stance against…
All 10 US Navy sailors detained by Iran after drifting into its territorial waters a day earlier have been freed, the US and Iran said on Wednesday. The US Navy said the American crew returned safely and there were no…
Washington – The 10 American sailors captured in Iran are being questioned, Iranian state media said Wednesday. The sailors, held by the Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), “acted unprofessionally” after they were captured a day earlier, the state-owned Press TV…
Dhaka – Madrasah students went on a rampage throughout the district town on Tuesday, protesting the death of a fellow student in a clash on the day before. They vandalised 12 establishments, set fire to two others and blocked the…
Writing against the received wisdom of the day, one would like to assert that India-Pakistan road to peace runs through Kabul and not through Kashmir is a contemporaneous strategic truism as Pakistan’s strategic uncertainties arise from Pakistan’s morbid fears that…
Dhaka – Madrasah students on Tuesday blocked rail tracks in the town, halting train communication of Brahmanbaria – about 100 kilometres east of Dhaka – with rest of the country after a fellow student who was wounded during a clash…
Andrei Lankov Who, if anyone, is coordinating the military, diplomatic plans the regime is carrying out? The January 6 North Korean nuclear test is much in the news these days, even though so far the situation seems very much like…
Aid agencies say food and medicine set to reach Madaya and two other Idlib villages, where thousands are starving. Aid agencies say a deal has been reached to send food and medicine into beseiged towns in Syria, where tens of…
Large plane, capable of delivering nuclear weapons, flies low over South Korea days after North’s latest bomb test. The United States has deployed a B-52 bomber on a low-level flight over its ally South Korea in a show of force…
North Korea on Saturday released video footage of a purportedly new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test, three days after it claimed it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb.But South Korean media suggested the footage broadcast by state Korean Central…
Seoul — North Korea warned of war as South Korea on Saturday continued blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals’ tense border in retaliation for the North’s purported fourth nuclear test. North Korean propaganda is filled with threats of violence, but…
JH Ahn Residents of area have expressed fear of North Korean bombardment as consequence of broadcasts Late on Friday afternoon, Yonhap reported North Korea is broadcasting its own propaganda in the hopes of drowning out the ongoing South Korean broadcasts.…
By VICE News and Reuters Let the propaganda wars (re)begin. South Korea’s birthday gift to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, who is believed to have turned 33 today, was to turn its loudspeakers back on and denigrate his wife. In…
Beirut – Saudi authorities carried out the largest mass execution in the country since 1980, putting 47 men to death on January 2, 2016. According to the Saudi state news agency, all of the men were convicted on terrorism charges,…
Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN)Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have once again ratcheted up as South Korea responds to its northern neighbor’s latest antagonism. The South reactivated its propaganda speakers near its heavily fortified border with North Korea on Friday following…
By Reuters and VICE News Missiles fired by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen have hit Iran’s embassy in the capital Sanaa, Iran claimed on Thursday. “Saudi Arabia is responsible for the damage to the embassy building and the injury…
Blue House says broadcasts in response to nuclear test, a violation of August 25 agreement Hyun-bi Park South Korea announced it will resume propaganda broadcasts along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Friday, in response to the nuclear test North Korea…
By VICE News A man was shot dead at a Paris police station on Thursday afternoon after allegedly trying to attack officers in the reception with a knife. The man shouted “Allahu Akbar” and may have been wearing a suicide…
By Ryan Faith The rumbling started early Wednesday morning when a small earthquake was detected near a known nuclear test site in North Korea. Not long after, North Korean state media broadcast the announcement that the country had successfully tested…