Hopes of an historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump have been revived, after the US president said meetings on the subject were “moving along very nicely.”   

ISLAMABAD AFP May27, 2018 - Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan’s party vowed Sunday to oust the country’s “corrupt” rulers, as the nuclear-armed state announced it will hold general elections on July 25. 

Pyongyang on Friday said it was still willing to speak with the United States at any time, after President Donald Trump’s sudden decision to cancel a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.   

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel next month’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un came as a shock to South Korean officials, who only days ago were publicly predicting a “99.9 percent” chance the meetin

 India’s Tamil Nadu state said on Thursday that it was seeking a permanent closure of a big copper smelter run by London-listed Vedanta Resources after 13 people died in protests demanding the closure of the plant on environmental grounds.

Two unidentified men walked into a restaurant on Thursday in the Canadian city of Mississauga and set off a bomb, wounding more than a dozen people, and then fleeing, local police said.  

Irish voters headed to the polls on Friday to vote in a landmark referendum on whether the traditionally Catholic country should liberalise some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe.   

President Donald Trump called off his summit with Kim Jong-un on Thursday after North Korea hurled insults at Vice President Mike Pence.   Trump said it would be ‘inappropriate’ to hold talks at this time after the Kim regime ag

Thoothukudi, (Reuters) 24 May 2018 -    Indian authorities on Thursday cut the power to a large copper smelter run by London-listed Vedanta Resources after police shot and killed 13 people in protests against what they say is pollution gene

UK, (Daily Mail), 24 May 2018 -   Parliament is to debate sweeping reforms of the House of Lords next month amid rising concern that peers have overstepped the mark in their opposition to Brexit.   MPs will hold the debate after a

Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 24 mAY, 2018 -  From toilet mugs to ceiling fans, bed linen to blankets, little that’s of value escapes the attention of thieves on Indian Railways. Such items, together with showers in washrooms, iron grills of

An Australian archbishop was Tuesday found guilty of covering up child sex abuse in the 1970s -- one of the highest-ranked church officials globally to be successfully prosecuted for such offences.   

DAILY MAIL,22 May 2018  - Shoulders slumped, shuffling, and clutching a plastic bag marked ‘personal possessions’, this is Meghan Markle’s father pictured two days after the Royal Wedding as he returned home from hospital.

DPA, 22nd MAY, 2018-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is due to meet EU lawmakers on Tuesday regarding the global data scandal involving the social media platform.  

President Donald Trump on Thursday reassured North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that he would remain in power under a nuclear deal with the United States, emphasizing that his administration is not seeking regime change amid threats from Pyongyang to

Malaysia, (Daily Mail)’ 18 May 2018 -  Malaysian police seized 72 suitcases stuffed with cash and jewels along with scores of designer handbags in raids on luxury properties linked to ex-prime minister Najib Razak on Friday as a corruption

UK, Daily Mail), 18 May 2018 -   Meghan Markle has today chosen Prince Charles to walk her down the aisle after her own father let her down in yet another extraordinary twist ahead of the royal wedding.   Prince Harry’s fath

Jerusalem, (AFP), May 17, 2018 -  Israel said Thursday it launched an overnight air raid on a Hamas facility in Gaza after gunfire from the territory targeted its soldiers and damaged a building.   “The Israeli army struck target

(c) 2018, The Washington Post May 18, 2018 -   NAIROBI, Kenya - Congo has confirmed a case of Ebola in Mbandaka, a city of 1.2 million, marking the first urban case in the latest outbreak, which is now the most serious since the epidemic th

Meghan Markle confirmed today her father would not attend the royal wedding.   

UK, (Daily Mail;), 17 May 2018 -  Theresa May was forced to deny caving into the EU today as Brexiteers voiced fury over ministers agreeing that Britain could stay tied to the customs union  beyond 2020.  

North Korea threatened Wednesday to cancel the forthcoming summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump if Washington seeks to push Pyongyang into unilaterally giving up its nuclear arsenal.   

GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters),MAY 16 2018  -  Palestinians buried the dead on Tuesday from the bloodiest day in Gaza in years, after Israeli forces killed 60 Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border during demonstrations against the opening

Hindustan Times, Varanasi,May 16 2018 -    At least 18 people were feared dead and many more trapped when a portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi during the evening rush-hour on Tuesday, rescue

RUETERS, 16th MAY, 2018-German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed back on Wednesday against Washington’s rejection of the Iran nuclear deal, saying the accord helped outside powers worried about Tehran’s regional role to pursue their concern

Will Meghan Markle’s father be at his daughter’s wedding this Saturday to walk his daughter down the aisle?   

REUTERS, 15th MAY, 2018- Russian President Vladimir Putin, driving a truck, unveiled the auto section of a new road-and-rail bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula on Tuesday, defying Ukraine which said the move showed cynical disrega

The police headquarters in Indonesia’s second largest city was attacked Monday by suspected militants who detonated explosives on a motorcycle.   

REUTERS, 14th MAY, 2018-  The Catalan parliament voted in a hard-line separatist as leader on Monday, heralding an end to seven months of direct rule from Madrid but also more political uncertainty in a region that retains a mandate to seek a sp

US, (rt.com), 14 May, 2018 -  The man picked to lead a prayer at Donald Trump’s much-vaunted opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, is a militant Baptist preacher, known, among other things, for calling Islam’s Prophet Muhammad &ldq