North Korea said the satellite launched on saturday is now transmitting revolutionary songs while circling around the earth.
Tokyo requested an emergency session of the Security Council to call for a stern response to the launch, Japan’s U.N. spokesman Yutaka Arima said. The U.N. said it would meet Sunday afternoon in New York.
The South had put [...]
The US channel CBS News reported that Israeli aircraft carried out the strike in January after Israeli intelligence discovered the trucks were intending to deliver arms through Sudan and across Egypt to be smuggled into Gaza. CBS said this account was the “semi-official American version” and said 39 people travelling in 17 trucks were reportedly [...]
Two American journalists arrested last week on the Chinese border have been transferred to the North Korean capital Pyongyang for interrogation, according to reports, as tension mounts over the North’s plans to test-fire a long-range rocket next week.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, of the San Franciso-based Current TV, have been held for almost a week [...]
Mr Obama used a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night to set out more limited objectives in Afghanistan, where he said the “central mission” was to prevent terrorists plotting violence against America. “There’s got to be an exit strategy,” he said. “There’s got to be a sense that this is not perpetual drift.” Mr Obama [...]
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki urges the West to respect the will of Afghans if it intends to resolve Afghanistan’s challenges.
Iran has been invited by the United States to attend the conference in The Hague, but has so far not confirmed its participation.
Mottaki, quoted by IRNA, said the meeting at the end of the month [...]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir returned home on Monday after paying a short visit to Eritrea during which he held talks with his Eritrean counterpart Isayas Afewerki, the state television reported.
Eritrea invited Mr. Bashir earlier this month, soon after the International Criminal Court (or ICC) indicted him for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in [...]
China’s military is increasing harassment of Navy survey ships, activities viewed by U.S. intelligence as the most aggressive since 2001, when a Chinese jet flew into a U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane and set off an international crisis. Chinese diplomats have work to do to keep a confrontation between American and Chinese naval vessels from damaging [...]
The Kyrgyz parliament has revoked all agreements it made with countries from the U.S.-led antiterrorist coalition in relation to use of Manas air base, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
The Kyrgyz Parliament voted 90 to 1 on Friday to end agreements with 11 allies of the United States who use the Manas Air Base as a refueling [...]