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South Korea Says North Has Plutonium for 10 Nuclear Bombs

South Korea said on Wednesday the North has enough plutonium to make 10 nuclear bombs, a week after leader Kim Jong-Un said it was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. Seoul’s defense ministry said the North is believed to have some 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of weapons-grade plutonium as ...

January 11, 2017

Middle East

Five UAE Officials among Dead in Kandahar Bombing

Five officials from the United Arab Emirates were among the dead in a bombing in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the Emirates’ official WAM news agency said on Wednesday. The officials were “on a mission to carry out humanitarian, educational and development projects”, the news agency said. UAE President ...

January 11, 2017

Lebanon

Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Saudi King Salman

Saudi Unblocks Military Aid to Lebanon: Lebanese Source

The Lebanese-Saudi Summit has winded up with both sides voicing eagerness to bolster bilateral ties in an attempt to “bring back relations to their normal course,” NNA field reporter said on Tuesday. The Saudi King confirmed his country’s refusal to meddle in internal Lebanese affairs, and reiterated his country’s keenness ...

January 10, 2017

Lebanon

President Aoun Talks Cooperation during Saudi Visit

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday that his visit to Saudi Arabia was aimed at improving Lebanese-Saudi ties and expanding cooperation between the two countries in all fields. “I came to the kingdom to dispel ambiguities. I carry (nothing but) friendliness and honesty towards the Saudi people,” Aoun told ...

January 10, 2017

Middle East

Syrian Army Tank in Damascus countryside

Hostilities Escalate between Armed Groups and ISIL as Syrian Army Advance into Provinces

Syrian army continued the military operations against terrorists in the Syrian provinces, inflicting them heavy losses in personnel and equipment. Army units thwarted and attack by Al-Nusra Front terrorist group on military posts in Hama and killed twenty-three al-Nusra terrorists in Homs-Salamiya road. In the meantime, terrorists of the so-called ...

January 10, 2017

Middle East

Smoke billows following an air-strike by Saudi-led coalition on May 11, 2015, in the capital Sanaa.

Yemen: Saudi-led Coalition Air Strike on School Kills Five including Two Children

An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a primary school in northern Yemen on Tuesday killed five people including two children, medical and military sources said. The headmaster and two other staff members were among those killed in the air raid in the district of Nihm, northeast of the ...

January 10, 2017

World

Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry: Astana Ready to Host Syria Talks

Kazakh Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday the completion of preparations to host the Syrian negotiations under the auspices of Russia, Turkey, Iran and the United Nations. In an interview with Interfax news agency, Mukhtar Tellobrda, first deputy foreign minister, said: “Our country welcomes hosting the negotiations and we are ready to ...

January 10, 2017

World

Kremlin Says US Blacklist Additions another Move to Degrade Ties

The Kremlin deplored Tuesday the United States’ blacklisting of Russian figures as a move that further damages bilateral ties. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Washington’s decision to blacklist Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin, lawmaker Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, represented “further steps in the artificially created degradation of our ...

January 10, 2017

World

CIA Chief: Obama Administration Overestimated Political Consequences of Arab Spring

CIA Director John Brennan said the outgoing administration of US President Barack Obama overestimated the outcome of the Arab Spring, in expecting democracy to take root in the region. In an interview broadcast Monday on CNN, Brennan said that although the people in the region wanted individual freedom, “the concept ...

January 10, 2017

World

Russian Envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin

Russian Envoy to UN: Some SC Members Favor Fueling Syrian Conflict over Peace

Certain members of the UN Security Council are still fomenting the conflict in Syria and are seeking to oust the Syrian Bashar Assad’s government rather than ending the war, Russian Envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Tuesday. “Work on Syria inside the Security Council has never been easy. ...

January 10, 2017