SEOUL, South Korea -- More than 800,000 young North Koreans have volunteered to join the army to fight "US imperialists", state media said Saturday, days after Pyongyang test-fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. After a record-breaking year of weapons tests and growing...
NEW YORK, United States -- Former US President Donald Trump said he expects to be "arrested" on Tuesday over hush money allegedly paid to a porn star before the 2016 election, calling on his supporters to protest. Citing a "leak" from the Manhattan district attorney's office, Trump wrote on his...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan said on Saturday he expected to be arrested as he headed to court on graft charges, after days of legal wrangling and pitched battles between his supporters and police. The 70-year-old former cricket star has been tangled in a slew...
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan and Germany pledged closer defence ties and cooperation on diversifying supply chains as Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo Saturday. Scholz is on his second trip to Japan in less than a year, and came with six ministers for...
ATHENS, Greece -- Greece said Saturday it had sacked its national police chief, days after clashes between security forces and demonstrators broke out in the wake of the country's deadliest train tragedy. The Prime Minister's office said police chief Constantinos Skoumas had been discharged less...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region. Videos posted to social media showed boats ploughing through a blanket of dead fish smothering the water, with the...
ANKARA, Türkiye -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended months of diplomatically charged delays on Friday and asked parliament to quickly back Finland's bid to join NATO. A simultaneous decision by fellow holdout Hungary to schedule a Finnish ratification vote for March 27 means the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea will fully implement a key military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a defence ministry official told AFP on Saturday, as the two countries move to thaw long-frozen relations and renew diplomacy to counter Pyongyang. At a fence-mending summit on Thursday,...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands --Â The International Criminal Court on Friday announced it had issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the "unlawful deportation" of Ukrainian children. The Hague-based ICC said it had also issued a warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand will ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from lawmakers' devices, officials told AFP Friday, becoming the latest Western nation to act on security fears about the platform. TikTok will be banned on all devices with access to the parliamentary network,...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his daughter, personally oversaw the recent test-firing of the country's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, state media images showed Friday. The launch on Thursday -- Pyongyang's second ICBM test this year --...
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's Supreme Court on Thursday annulled a controversial article of the military justice code that had criminalized homosexuality within the armed forces. The court annulled the provision, which had provided for a penalty of up to three years in prison, "for lacking...
