North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is no exception. Expressing anything less than extreme admiration of the supreme leader risks a lengthy prison stay. The latest spat with South Korea has produced a ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea destroys empty liaison office with South
Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday, in a carefully choreographed, largely symbolic display of anger that puts pressure on Washington and ... ( read original story ...)
US to seek in-person meetings with Iran over prisoner releases
The United States would like a in-person meeting with Iran to discuss prisoner releases and it wants the UN Security Council to impose an indefinite arms embargo on the Islamic Republic, a senior US ... ( read original story ...)
U.S.’s Hook says wants in-person meeting with Iran on prisoners
A senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday he would love to have an in-person meeting with Iranian officials to discuss consular matters, a term U.S. diplomats use to refer to possible prisoner exchanges. ( read original story ...)
Kylie Moore-Gilbert: jailed Briton beaten for forming Iran prison choir
A Cambridge-educated academic imprisoned in Iran was drugged and beaten after forming a protest choir with fellow inmates, it has been claimed.Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who became a figurehead of ... ( read original story ...)
France Says Working With Partners to Pressure Iran at IAEA on Inspector Access
Iran, like any state to which the IAEA sends a request for access, must respond to it without delay and without conditions, to allow IAEA inspectors to establish the absence of undeclared nuclear ... ( read original story ...)
Iran To Send Ukraine Jet Black Boxes To France ‘Soon’: Trudeau
"The black boxes are supposed to be sent to France soon," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a daily briefing, adding that the coronavirus pandemic had delayed the handover. "We're going to continue ... ( read original story ...)
America Once Tried to Get Rid of This Refugee Camp. Now Turkey is Bombing It.
On June 14, 2020, Turkish bombs smashed into the Makhmour refugee camp in Turkey’s “largest ever” air raids on Iraq. This was not the fi ... ( read original story ...)
Ruined: Why the Battle of Midway Was Such a Terrible Loss for Imperial Japan
While elated over his forces’ victory at Pearl Harbor, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, knew unfinished business lay ahead. His dive-bombers and torpedo ... ( read original story ...)
Bangladesh fears a coronavirus crisis as case numbers rise
He fought in the Bangladesh war of independence in 1971 and was held as a prisoner of war. The 75 year old died on a Wednesday evening in May 2020, when the coronavirus isolation unit he was being ... ( read original story ...)