Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China for a state visit Friday, his third trip in just over one year as Beijing and Moscow look to promote their special relationship. Warmer ties between the two countries have been highly-publicized in Russian and Chinese state media in recent months, including an interview on Chinese state TV […]

WASHINGTON  – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday Russia should also be attending a Group of Seven nations summit, a controversial idea that even Moscow seemed to reject, as he headed for a chilly reception at the meeting in Canada, where other G7 leaders are set to clash with him over trade. Russia was […]

French president warned G7 members to resist a potential US drift toward ‘crude hegemony’ following Trump’s tariffs on allies Emmanuel Macron has called on other members of the G7 to stand up to Donald Trump’s trade policies in the face of what he described as the threat of a new US “hegemony”. The French president was […]

An Uzbek man who carried out a lorry attack which killed five people in Sweden last year has been sentenced to life for terrorist crimes. Rakhmat Akilov, 40, had expressed sympathy for the Islamic State (IS) group before the attack in Stockholm. But prosecutors had to prove he intended to harm the state, as IS […]

President Trump has granted clemency to 63-year-old great grandmother Alice Johnson, who has been serving life in prison for a non-violent drug offence. The case was highlighted last week when Kim Kardashian West met Mr Trump to lobby for her release. The White House said she had been a model prisoner and worked hard to […]

“I don’t think that [the] iPhone will get a tariff on it,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNN in an interview Monday. Cook last month told President Donald Trump in a White House meeting that tariffs were the wrong approach. Apple customers are already seeing the highest iPhone prices in the phone’s 10-year history. Apple CEO Tim […]

MOSCOW  – On a shelf in a cramped office on the outskirts of Moscow, businessman Igor Michurin has a framed photograph of himself shaking hands with one of his important customers – a North Korean embassy official whom Michurin calls Lee. It’s a relationship which offers unusual insights into the negotiating techniques of Pyongyang officials, […]

A Russia TV station has been accused of photoshopping an awkward smile onto Kim Jong Un’s face.   The leader of the so-called Hermit Kingdom met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Pyongyang on May 31 to discuss “the current state of and prospects for relations of friendship and cooperation,” according to a statement […]

WASHINGTON  – The U.S. military is increasing spending on a secret research effort to use artificial intelligence to help anticipate the launch of a nuclear-capable missile, as well as track and target mobile launchers in North Korea and elsewhere.   The effort has gone largely unreported, and the few publicly available details about it are […]

SEOUL  – North Korea’s new top three military officers are known for their unquestioning support of leader Kim Jong Un and are flexible enough to accept the massive changes that may come from any deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, people who follow the secretive country say.   They replaced older, more conservative officers who […]