Pyongyang, Jul 24 : North Korea’s state-run media have toned down their rhetorical attacks on the United States and South Korea while leader Kim Jong Un pursues a more diplomatic approach, but the vitriol continues — and Japan is now Pyongyang’s favorite foil. Commentaries critical of Tokyo, which has maintained a harder line toward Pyongyang than Seoul and Washington, have ...

Athens, Jul 24 : Gale-fanned wildfires raged through holiday resorts near Greece’s capital, killing at least 20 people by early Tuesday and injuring more than 104, including 11 in serious condition, in the deadliest blaze to hit the country in more than a decade. Greece sought international help through the European Union as the fires on either side of Athens ...

Washington, Jul 24 : President Donald Trump’s explosive Twitter threat to Iran’s leader comes as his administration is ratcheting up a pressure campaign on the Islamic republic that many suspect is aimed at regime change. No one is predicting imminent war. But Trump’s bellicose, all-caps challenge addressed to President Hassan Rouhani followed a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ...

Heavy rain, flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Son Tinh have left 22 people dead, 12 missing and 26 injured in Vietnam’s central and northern regions, the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said on Monday morning.   Among 22 deaths, 11 were from northern Yen Bai province, four from northern Son La province, three from ...

Police have pressed charges against eight suspects over the bloody militant attack on Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery, which led to the deaths of 20 hostages, mostly foreigners.   The charge sheet has been placed before a local court on Monday morning after all formalities were completed, said Police Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit Chief Monirul Islam, whose unit led ...

New Delhi, Jul 23 : A fire at a residential building early Monday killed five people in northern India, police said. The fire broke out from an apartment building early in the morning in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, said Dinesh Kumar, a police official. Television channels showed plume of smoke engulfing the area as fire tenders worked to douse ...

Tokyo, Jul 23 : Japanese media say a city north of Tokyo has reached the highest temperature ever recorded in the country. The temperature hit 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kumagaya on Monday afternoon. Japan and South Korea are in the middle of an extended heat wave. Japan’s Kyodo News agency has tallied more than 40 deaths in ...

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., Sunday, July 22, 2018, en route to Washington after staying at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Washington, Jul 23 : Capping a week of drama, back tracking, a double negative and blistering statements from allies about his attitude toward Russian election interference, President Donald ...

Kabul, July 23 : Afghanistan’s first vice president, a former Uzbek warlord, escaped unharmed from an explosion near the airport as he returned home on Sunday after living in Turkey for over a year, according to security officials. Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said a suicide bomber carried out the attack near Kabul International Airport shortly after ...