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North Korea has claimed that its cold war abductions of Japanese citizens has been “resolved” and accused Japan of trying to wreck recent progress towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. The state-run KCNA news agency blasted Japan’s insistence...

The former director of Malaysia’s anti-corruption office has lodged a complaint against the former prime minister, Najib Razak, alleging he personally blocked an investigation into the $3.2bn 1MDB scandal. Abdul Razak Idris has claimed that Najib, with...

Ivanka Trump is in Israel for the inauguration of the US Jerusalem embassy on Monday, as protesters in Gaza prepare for a day of rallies along the frontier that are expected to be met with gunfire. The...

Leprosy may have originated in Europe rather than Asia, according to the largest study to date on ancestral strains of the disease. The study has revealed that more leprosy strains than expected were present in medieval...

“I have not decided yet, but I’m thinking about leaving the army,” a young professional soldier in Bosnia’s Armed Forces told BIRN. Declining to give his name, he complained about the tiny salary, poor conditions in...

A volume of academic articles entitled ‘Jasenovac – Manipulations, Controversies and Historical Revisionism’ is being launched at the national library in Zagreb on Friday, as the Croatian World War II concentration camp continues to be a...

Theresa May has divided her cabinet into two groups to fight out their differences over Britain’s post-Brexit customs arrangements, intensifying speculation that she is preparing to delay her decision on the issue. No 10 sources confirmed that...

An MP from Japan’s governing party has drawn accusations of sexism after he said women should have multiple children and warned those who preferred to remain single that they would become a burden on the state...

The newly-elected Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has said the country’s monarch is willing to grant a full pardon to the jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim – beginning the process by which he could shortly succeed him. The announcement...

A government-appointed committee alleged that renowned Bulgarian-French philosopher and linguist Julia Kristeva was recruited in 1971 by the Communist-era state security’s foreign intelligence department. The government-appointed Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing the Affiliation of...