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Donald Trump has saluted Pyongyang’s suspension of nuclear and long-range missile tests ahead of planned talks with the US as “very good news for North Korea and the world”. A leading Korean-American expert on the region, however, was...

The interior ministry banned a rally that Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj planned in the village of Hrtkovci, where he made nationalist speeches in 1992 that got him convicted of war crimes. Serbian Interior Minister...

Montenegro‘s government has imposed a new sanctions list on Ukraine and Russianpoliticians and businessmen allegedly involved in the illegal transfer of funds from Ukraine, once again aligning itself with similar EU punitive measures. The extended list targetting...

Rudy Giuliani, the pugnacious former mayor of New York, has joined Donald Trump’s legal team with a specific task of dealing with the special investigation into Russian election interference that is swirling around the president’s head....

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has caused a stir with a striking image of her walking the halls of Buckingham Palace swathed in a traditional Māori cloak during this week’s Commonwealth heads of government meeting. The prime...

The Basque terrorist group Eta, which killed more than 800 people during its four-decade armed campaign, has apologised for the suffering it caused and asked for the forgiveness of victims and their families as it prepares to...

Tesla is facing an investigation by Californian safety regulators into reports of serious injuries at its factory in Fremont, California, where it is struggling to scale up production of its Model 3 mass-market electric car. The California...

Expectations that UK interest rates will rise in May could be overblown, the governor of the Bank of England has indicated. Mark Carney said that while more rate increases would be coming over the next few years, some of...

Jair Bolsonaro has openly cheered dictatorship and publicly insulted women. Now he’s deploying Trump-like tactics in his race for the presidency. Jair Bolsonaro’s disciples had packed the arrivals hall of this far-flung Amazonian airport, united by...

Cuba’s new president has promised to modernize the country’s economy and make the government more responsive to its people, even as he pledged to uphold the values of the country’s socialist revolution. Miguel Díaz-Canel was sworn...