Ri Il-gyu, a former political counselor at the North Korean embassy in Cuba who defected last year, said in an interview with the Chosun Ilbo on July 14, “Kim Jong-un must have felt a great shock and betrayal about the diplomatic relations between South Korea and Cuba (earlier this year).

Iran’s final investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed president Ebrahim Raisi has found it was caused by bad weather, the body investigating the case said yesterday.

Israel yesterday announced its troops had found six dead hostages in a Gaza tunnel, as Israeli police said a “shooting attack” in the occupied West Bank killed three officers.

Russia yesterday said that it had thwarted a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack by downing 158 drones across 15 regions, including two over the capital Moscow.

Algeria has been approved for membership in the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the country’s finance ministry has announced.

A group of Indigenous women are hoping to stop the bulldozers at a former Montreal hospital which they believe could hold the truth about children still missing from a grisly half-century-old CIA experiment.

Voters in two former East German states yesterday began casting ballots in elections expected to deal a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government and deliver big gains for the far-right AfD.

A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced "humanitarian pauses" to allow for large-scale innoculation, a health official told AFP

Donald Trump on Saturday signaled his backing for a ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida, where he resides

Former North Korean diplomat Ri Il-gyu exposes country's human rights abuses

A joint operation by US and Iraqi forces killed 15 Islamic State group fighters in Iraq’s western desert, with seven US troops hurt during the operation, US Central Command said.

Israeli strikes yesterday killed at least 48 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health authorities said, as clashes took place in central and southern areas of the enclave ahead of the planned start of a polio vaccination campaign.

China and the Philippines accused each other on Saturday of deliberately ramming their coast guard ships near a flashpoint shoal in the South China Sea, the latest in a spate of similar incidents in recent weeks.

The UN has published a draft on climate financing due to be presented at the COP29 in November, laying out the conflicting positions from which the main country blocs will try to clinch the next climate deal.

A joint declaration by Pacific leaders was reissued yesterday morning with mentions of Taiwan removed after China slammed an earlier version as a “mistake” that “must be corrected”.

Aerial strikes on Russian and Ukrainian border cities killed at least a dozen people on Friday, bombardments that came as Kyiv dismissed its air force commander in a major military shake-up.

A block on Elon Musk’s X social network in Brazil started to take effect early yesterday after a Supreme Court judge ordered its suspension, according to AFP.

Well over half the world's population -- 4.4 billion people -- cannot access safely managed drinking water, a new study has shown

Ri Il-gyu, a 52-year-old former counsellor responsible for political affairs at the North Korean Embassy in Cuba, appeared calm and gentle in an interview with the Chosun Ilbo at a hotel in Seoul on July 14.

Israel said it killed three Hamas militants in an air strike in the occupied West Bank yesterday, taking the death toll from a large-scale military operation now in its third day to at least 19.