The UN Security Council slapped sanctions Friday on 21 shipping companies, 27 ships and one individual for alleged smuggling to help North Korea undermine existing sanctions, the U.S. mission to the UN said. The illicit efforts were aimed at helping Pyongyang sell coal and buy oil after...

Kim Jong Un is committed to sending North Korean teams to the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics, IOC chief Thomas Bach said Saturday after a rare meeting with the leader of the nuclear-armed regime in Pyongyang. Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, also said the IOC will...

Russia has told Britain it must send home "just over 50" more of its diplomats in a worsening standoff with the West over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. Russia has already retaliated in kind against Britain and ejected 23 British diplomats over the...

Saudi air defense forces intercepted a missile fired by Houthi fighters in neighbouring Yemen at the southern city of Najran on Saturday, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television reported. Al Arabiya gave no further details. The Houthi-run Saba news agency earlier said a ballistic missile was...