Washington (CNN)-Administration officials are scrambling to turn President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un into a reality, preparing for an unprecedented, high stakes summit with little time, an understaffed State Department and a mercurial President who may not stick to his script when the time comes. The White House […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Investigators on Monday found the “black box” from a Turkish private jet that crashed in an Iranian mountain range on its way from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul, killing all 11 people on board that included a Turkish bride-to-be and her bachelorette party. Authorities recovered all the dead from the […]

Russia could soon be able to conduct nuclear strikes all over the world without any chance of being intercepted, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday (March 1). Speaking on Russian television as part of his annual address, Putin announced a new class of weapons delivery systems designed to sneak past NATO’s American-built ballistic missile defenses. As Putin spoke, […]

President Trump has tweeted that a deal with North Korea is “very much in the making”, a day after revealing he had agreed to meet its leader Kim Jong-un. Earlier, the White House said the meeting would not take place unless Pyongyang took “concrete actions”. US media report that Mr Trump made the decision to […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that it is offering a $5 million reward for information on Mullah Fazlullah, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban, whose men shot Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. It said in a statement that it also is offering rewards of $3 million each for information on […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on President Trump on Wednesday, but added that he was sorely disappointed with the U.S. political system, saying that it has been “eating itself up.” Speaking in an interview with the Russian state television, Putin described Trump as a great communicator. “I have no disappointment at all,” Putin said […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria on Tuesday killing all 39 people on board, Russian officials said, an incident that sharply raised the death toll from the Kremlin’s intervention in the Syrian war. President Vladimir Putin, who is running for re-election later this month, declared in December that the Russian […]

Turkish and Free Syrian Army forces on Monday liberated four more villages from terrorists in Syria’s Afrin region as part of the ongoing Operation Olive Branch, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents in the field. The villages of Belusank and Alici in the Sharan region, located northwest of the city of Afrin, have been cleared of […]

The 90th Academy Awards saw Latin American artists and films take home some of the most coveted Oscars. Mexico’s Guillermo del Toro won best director and his The Shape of Water took the top honour for best film. Chile’s A Fantastic Woman was named best foreign language film and its star Daniela Vega became the […]

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe has expanded beyond Russia to the Middle East. Mueller’s investigators have questioned a shadowy businessman about attempts by the United Arab Emirates to funnel money to the Trump campaign to buy political influence, The New York Times reported. George Nader, a Lebanese-American adviser to the U.A.E’s de facto ruler, became […]