North Korea will not stand by and watch the United States launch a preemptive strike, a Pyongyang foreign ministry official said Friday.
In an interview with Chinese state tabloid Global Times, North Korea's director of the foreign ministry's Asia department said there are no "empty words" when Pyongyang vows to strike back.
"The Korean peninsula at present is a tinderbox at risk of war...
The U.S. Air Force dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb for the first time in combat on Thursday, targeting an underground Islamic State complex in a desolate portion of eastern Afghanistan, military officials said.
The 21,000-pound bomb is known as the Massive Ordinance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB. In military circles, the acronym is known better as the "Mother of All Bombs."
CNN, which first...
An approaching cyclone prompted New Zealand to declare regional states of emergency, evacuate coastal areas and close airports and schools on Thursday.
Cyclone Cook was heading east with heavy rain, 93 mph winds and storm surges of more than 16 feet. It is expected to make landfall by Thursday evening.
It is targeting the Bay of Plenty region of the country's North Island, near the capital...
The European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled Russia is guilty of failing to protect more than 330 people who died in the 2004 Beslan school siege despite knowing about a planned terrorist attack.
The attack occurred at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, in September 2004 when heavily armed Chechen rebels held more than 1,000 hostages, mostly children, for more than 50 hours. After a...
North Korea may be preparing for its next nuclear test at its site in Punggye-ri.
Commercial satellite images taken Wednesday indicate ongoing activity around the North Portal, new activity in a main area and the presence of personnel at Punggye-ri's command center, according to 38 North, a Johns Hopkins University website dedicated to North Korea issues.
A "small vehicle or trailer" can be...
There’s a paradox in the way Justin Trudeau has positioned himself on marijuana. From the time he first came out in favour of legalizing pot—during a summer swing through British Columbia as the Liberals’ new leader in 2013—Trudeau has framed this seemingly hip policy in surprisingly square terms.
More than anything, he’s stressed making it harder for teenagers to buy it. In what has...
China has ordered its military to be on nationwide alert, in addition to areas near the North Korea border, as tensions escalate on the peninsula.
The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a nongovernmental organization in Hong Kong, said Beijing has ordered troops at all five military "regions" to maintain preparedness because of the situation in North Korea, according to...
North Korean agents may have been responsible for the death of a Myanmar national after the 1983 Rangoon bombing and assassination attempt against South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan.
More than 230,000 pages of South Korean foreign ministry documents declassified on Tuesday show Seoul's diplomats inquiring into the death of the daughter of a judge in Myanmar more than three decades ago, Segye...
Mexico City's Civil Protection Secretariat Fausto Lugo said at least seven people died and 10 were injured after a parking garage under construction collapsed.
Lugo said rescue workers did not find anyone else trapped after searching the site Monday in Mexico City's Álvaro Obregón municipality. Red Cross Mexico was involved in the search and rescue operation.
Mexico's Attorney General's...
One civilian died in an explosion Tuesday that authorities described as accidental in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey.
Five people also were injured, one critically, in the explosion at 10:47 a.m. in the central Baglar district, Doğan News Agency reported.
Authorities said a terror attack was unlikely according to initial findings and its exact cause is being...
