North Korea's army Friday vowed a "merciless" response to any U.S. provocation, as tensions soar over Pyongyang's nuclear program and speculation mounts that it is preparing a fresh weapons test. Pyongyang's rogue atomic ambitions have come into sharp focus in recent weeks, with United...

Russia, Syria and Iran strongly warned the United States Friday against launching new strikes Syria and called for an international probe into last week's chemical attack there. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who hosted his Iranian and Syrian counterparts at a trilateral meeting in...

( The Guardian )- Theresa May has defended Boris Johnson’s handling of the Syria crisis, saying he had done an “excellent job” despite criticism of his failure to win backing for further sanctions on Russia. The prime minister said Johnson had taken a very clear message to the G7 and...

Smoking-related diseases will claim 200 million lives in China this century and plunge tens of millions into poverty, a report said Friday. China is the world's largest consumer and producer of tobacco, and the industry provides the government with colossal sums. In 2015, it recorded 1.1...