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Trump, South Korea's Moon stress diplomacy for North Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday stressed the need for diplomacy in getting U.S. nuclear talks with North Korea back on track after a failed summit between the U.S. and North Korean leaders in February. In Oval Office remarks, Trump was asked by...

Iraqi troops destroy holdout Daesh media center in north

 Iraq's elite counter-terrorism force targeted Daesh (ISIS) holdouts Thursday in the northern region of Hamreen, including a media center, more than a year after the country declared Daesh vanquished. Although they no longer hold territory, Daesh sleeper cells were believed to be...

Bouteflika, Bashir... will other strongmen fall?

Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and now Sudan?s Omar al-Bashir from power. While recent events...

Germany backs UN call for truce in Libya

Germany on Thursday backed a UN call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Libya in order to prevent an escalation in the country towards a full-scale civil war.  “UN special envoy Salame has called for a humanitarian ceasefire, and we fully support this,” German Foreign Minister Heiko...