Cuban President Raul Castro and US leader Barack Obama prodded each other over human rights and the longstanding US economic embargo, even as the two men pledged to set aside their decades-long differences and move forward with normalising ties. Following a historic meeting in Havana on Monday, Obama welcomed what[…]
Cuban police arrested dozens of people protesting against the communist government on Sunday in Havana, just hours before US President Barack Obama was due on a three-day visit. The protesters were from the Ladies in White group, formed by wives of former political prisoners. Police bundled them into vehicles outside[…]
North Korea has fired two medium-range ballistic missiles into the sea, US and South Korean officials have said. South Korea’s military said the first missile was launched from Sukchon in the country’s southwest at 5:55am on Friday (20:55 GMT on Thursday) and flew 800km before crashing off into the East[…]
Chicken produced in the United States (US) is back on grocery shelves in South Africa for the first time in nearly 17 years following the arrival of five containers of poultry products into the country. Bone-in chicken leg quarters and drumsticks from Tyson Foods and House of Raeford Farms arrived[…]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and the military to be in “pre-emptive attack” mode, state media said. The comments, carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency on Friday, marked a further escalation of tension[…]
North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea in a show of defiance just hours after the United Nations adopted the toughest sanctions to date on Pyongyang over its fourth nuclear test and rocket launch. Limited displays of military firepower have become a routine response by North Korea to[…]
The United States presented a draft Security Council resolution on Thursday it negotiated with China that would dramatically tighten existing restrictions on North Korea after its Jan. 6 nuclear test and create the toughest U.N. sanctions regime in over two decades. The draft, seen by Reuters, would require U.N. member[…]
The United Nations will name a date on Friday for Syria’s warring parties to return to the negotiating table for a second round of talks, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. De Mistura abruptly aborted a first round of talks on Feb. 3, saying more preparatory work[…]
US health officials are investigating whether 14 new Zika virus infections may been transmitted through sex, raising questions about the role of sex in spreading a disease that has been linked to birth defects in Brazil. Several of the cases involved pregnant women, the US Centers for Disease Control and[…]
Chinese Foreign Ministry has argued that its strengthening defenses on South China Sea islands is similar to the US deployments in Hawaii, telling Washington to stay away from the territorial dispute. “There is no difference between China’s deployment of necessary national defense facilities on its own territory and the defense[…]
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