North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un praised the “perfect success” of the country’s sixth and largest nuclear test and urged further weapons development, according to state media Sunday, in the face of a US drive for tough new sanctions. Pyongyang held a banquet, concert and performances in a weekend display of ...
More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, mostly members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, a senior United Nations representative told AFP on Friday — around twice the government’s figure. “Perhaps about a thousand or more are already dead,” said Yanghee Lee, the UN special ...