UK (Daily Mail), 15 July 2018 - Britain is in secret talks with Ecuador to evict Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from its embassy in London.  

Washington (dpa) 16 July 2018 -  Calling your best friends foes only makes your real foes happy,” European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans tweeted late Sunday, in response to US President Trump’s claim that he views the bl

A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza’s dominant Hamas Islamists appeared largely to be held on Sunday, ending the most intensive flare-up in violence around the Palestinian enclave since a 2014 war.

Bangladesh, (Hindustan Times), 15 July 2018 -  More than 10 months have passed since Myanmar’s security forces launched a sweeping campaign of rape and other brutalities against the Rohingya in the Rakhine state, and the babies conceived d

US and North Korean officials have met on the inter-Korean border to discuss the return of remains of US soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency has said.  

After Prime Minister Theresa May rolled out the red carpet at Blenheim Palace on Thursday night for President Donald Trump’s first official visit to Britain, a London tabloid published an explosive interview in which Trump blasted May’s c

Lahore, (Hindustan Times), July 13, 2018 - Pakistan’s embattled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam are set to arrive in Lahore on Friday to face arrest in a corruption case, amid high security and a massive crackdown on

President Donald Trump’s claim to have wrung billions in additional commitments for defense contributions from European leaders is already being undercut by NATO leaders and members nations.  

Juba, (dpa), 13 July 2018 - South Sudan’s parliament voted unanimously on Thursday to extend the term of President Salva Kiir to 2021, a move that could undermine peace efforts in the world’s youngest country. 

New Delhi (Hindustan Times), July 13, 2018 - Journalist Reham Khan, who was briefly married to Imran Khan, has claimed in her autobiography that the cricketer-turned-politician told her that he sired at least five illegitimate children, including &ld

Donald Trump began a protest-laden trip to Britain Thursday by questioning whether Prime Minister Theresa May will deliver on UK voters’ intentions when they decided to quit the European Union.   

Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces in the country’s north have caused “heavy casualties”, officials said Thursday, putting the number of soldiers killed as high as 40 in ongoing fighting.   

QUETTA REUTERS July 12-Pakistani police detained hundreds of members of the former ruling party in the central city of Lahore on Thursday, weeks before the country heads to the polls, party officials said.   

(c) 2018, The Washington Post · Rick Noack · WORLD, EUROPE · Jul 12, 2018 - 5:23 PM   BERLIN - For more than half a century, the deployment of U.S. troops to Germany appeared to be a mutually beneficial relationship. Am

NEW DELHI AFP July12, 2018-A British lawyer assisting Bangladesh’s opposition leader in her fight against corruption charges has been refused entry to India where he was scheduled to give a press conference about the case.   

All 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks deep inside a flooded Thai cave have been rescued, a Thai navy SEAL unit said on Tuesday, a successful end to a perilous mission that gripped the world.

A suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, including two intelligence service agents and 10 civilians, authorities said.

BEIJING (Reuters),JULY 10 2018   - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday pledged a package of $20 billion in loans and $1.6 billion in financial aid to countries in the Middle East, as part of what he called an “oil and gas plus&rdq

US, (Daily Mail), 10 July 2018 -  Donald Trump risked sparking a diplomatic incident today ahead of his visit to the UK by saying the country is ‘in turmoil’ and refusing to endorse Theresa May as PM.   The US president sai

India’s top court on Tuesday began hearing arguments challenging a colonial-era law banning homosexuality, and activists said they were optimistic it would be overturned it despite opposition from some ruling lawmakers.

Three months of rhetoric just became reality. The United States imposed the first duties on $34 billion in Chinese goods early Friday and China immediately retaliated, launching a commercial battle that analysts fear could shake markets a

PHUKET, THAILAND, (The Hindu) JULY 06, 2018 - Thai divers scoured the wreckage of a boat with Chinese tourists that sank in a storm off the resort island of Phuket, as the death toll rose to 10 with about 45 others missing on Friday, officials said.&

Canada, (Daily Mail), 6 July 2018 -  Justin Trudeau on Thursday revealed for the first time that he did apologize to a female reporter who accused him of groping but insisted he did nothing wrong.  

Britain demanded on Thursday that Russia provide details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter after two British citizens were struck down with the same poison.   

NANTES AFP July5, 2018- A French policeman was detained for questioning Thursday over the fatal shooting of a young man that has sparked two nights of rioting in the western city of Nantes.    Burned out cars and broken glass littered the s

Thai;and, (Daily Mail), 5 July 2018- The young football team trapped underground in Thailand are still too weak to attempt to leave their flooded cave with two boys and their coach suffering from exhaustion, it has emerged.  

Twelve Thai boys and their football coach who were lost in a flooded cave for nine days may be stuck there for months before they can be rescued.   

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP),3 July 2018-The Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali erupted Monday evening, ejecting a 2,000-meter-high column of thick ash and hurling lava down its slopes.   

 Iran keeps its promises, President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday in Switzerland, ahead of a planned meeting between the chief diplomats from Tehran and five key countries focused on salvaging a 2015 deal to set controls on Iran’s nuclear pr

Daily Mail, 3 July 2018 -A senior Catholic Church official has avoided jail and will spend six months in home detention for concealing child sex crimes.