Pyongyang says it will never put nuclear and missiles programmes on negotiating table, after US-led sanctions.
Pyongyang does business with dozens of countries but 80 percent of its trade is with its close ally China.
Tehran says 27 suspects tried to smuggle weapons and ammunition hidden inside home appliances for planned attacks.
Milli Muslim League launched by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, whose chief is under US and UN 'terrorist' sanctions.
Social media and the spread of alarmist fake news might be what will make the difference in this maturing democracy.
Politicians will vote in secret on no-confidence motion on President Jacob Zuma, who has faced corruption charges.
Despite improvements and a partial closing of the inequality gap, minorities are still at the bottom of wealth pyramid.
About 240,000 foreign maids work in Singaporean homes, but those from Myanmar are among the most vulnerable.
Visit comes two weeks since a surge in violence in Jerusalem after Israel installed metal detectors at al-Aqsa Mosque.
Seventy years on, a now 92-year-old man returns to the home he fled during the 'poison' of Partition.
Mr Khanna returns to Pakistan for the first time since he was forced to flee when India was split apart in 1947.
The process to shut down Al Jazeera's offices in Jerusalem is likely to be lengthy, lawyers say.
Joint operation by armed groups led to 'massacre' of more than 50 civilians in northern province, local official says.
On how Western museums encourage and abet the smuggling of antiquities.
Israel takes unprecedented step of revoking Israeli citizenship from 22-year-old Palestinian, Alaa Zayud.
Does Netanyahu need a smoke screen for his corruption scandal or is there a more sinister reason for banning Al Jazeera?
Rights groups decry death of 31-year-old Hamed Shamshiripour, who was found hanging by a tree, as an 'absolute tragedy'.
Hotter summers appear to be here to stay for much of the northern hemisphere.
The Palestinian family fought for years in Israeli court to keep the home where they have lived since 1964.
What's behind fake news stories, inaccurate polls and misleading ads in the run-up to Kenya's elections?
Lee Jae-yong faces charges of allegedly bribing impeached President Park to help cement control of the business empire.
Rights groups, journalists and observers criticise Israel's decision to shut down Al Jazeera's operation in Jerusalem.
Punishing measures are in 'violent violation' of North's sovereignty, Pyongyang says, as it rejects offers of talks.
A legendary friendship borne of youth and revolutionary zeal eventually succumbs to the strains of Cold War realpolitik.
US secretary of state discusses Kremlin's alleged collusion in last year's US election with Russian FM Sergei Lavrov.
