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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea rebuffed South Korea’s push for a political declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War as a way to… Read More »N. Korea rejects South’s calls for end-of-war declaration

Western powers suspect Iranian officials are using the diplomatic push for renewal of the 2015 nuclear deal to buy time for the expansion of their… Read More »US and European allies suspect ‘Iran is taking advantage’ of stalled talks to expand nuclear program

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has issued its first subpoenas, demanding records and testimony from… Read More »House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump advisers, associates

A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond. Short presentational grey line Fifteen-year-old Nobe Nobe from Ago, 17-year-old Djanje Haiballa from… Read More »Africa’s week in pictures: 17-23 September 2021

BEIJING (Reuters) – China should abandon a top-level strategy promoted by President Xi Jinping to increase self-reliance, or risk harming innovation and growth prospects, said… Read More »European business group calls for China to end self-reliance strategy

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders who are “playing” at unity and stuffing pressing problems into an overflowing bag of woe. A world that’s in the… Read More »Ukraine’s leader takes UN to task as ‘retired superhero’

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the… Read More »They said it: Leaders at the hybrid UN, in their own words

Russian personnel have been helping government troops Amid a Russian-backed advance, the growing threat of landmines and improvised explosives in the Central African Republic (CAR)… Read More »Central African Republic war: No-go zones and Russian meddling

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s health minister tested positive for the coronavirus in New York after President Jair Bolsonaro spoke at the U.N. General Assembly… Read More »Brazil health minister tests positive for the coronavirus

Iranian officials said Tuesday they expect nuclear talks with world powers to resume in the “next few weeks,” but they signaled they would take a… Read More »Iran officials ready to restart nuclear talks with world powers in “next few weeks”