Category: WORLD NEWS

Washington, May 19 (DIN NEWS) President Donald Trump has nominated US Pacific Command Commander Admiral Harry Harris as America’s new Ambassador to South Korea ahead of his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un next month. North Korea has warned that it might not attend the much-talked about summit between Trump and Kim, due to take place in Singapore on June 12, over being pushed “into a corner” on nuclear disarmament. Leaders of North and South Korea held a meeting on April 27 and agreed to work to rid the…

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Washington, May 18 (DIN NEWS) US President Donald Trump today defended his use of the word “animals” against some illegal immigrants, asserting that he would continue to use the term to refer to violent gang members. Trump said he used the word yesterday against the MS-13 gang members and asserted that he would not shy away from using the term time and again. “When the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country, I refer to them as “animals.” And guess what? I always will,” Trump said…

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Cairo, May 18 (DIN NEWS) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has made a rare decision to open the Rafah crossing with Gaza for a month, allowing Palestinians to cross during the holy period of Ramadan. The decision to keep the crossing open was taken “to alleviate the suffering” of residents in the Palestinian enclave, Sisi said on Facebook late yesterday. The Rafah crossing is Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel, but Egypt has largely sealed it in recent years, citing security threats. It is usually open…

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Washington, May 17 (DIN NEWS) President Donald Trump today described as “animals” some illegal immigrants as he slammed the US’ “dumbest” immigration laws and asserted that people based on merit should only enter America. Venting out his frustration at officials in both Mexico and California, Trump vowed to strengthen the US’ “weak” immigration laws. “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in – and we’re stopping a lot of them – but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are.…

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Sofia, May 17 (DIN NEWS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that EU countries agreed the Iran nuclear deal was “not perfect” but insisted it should be preserved, after the US withdrawal threw the accord into doubt. EU leaders meeting in Sofia have backed a “united” approach to keeping the deal alive after US President Donald Trump pulled out and reimposed sanctions, complaining the accord did nothing to stop Iran’s ballistic missile programme or interference in Middle East conflicts. “Everyone in the European Union shares the view that the agreement is…

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Istanbul, May 16 (DIN NEWS) Turkey has told the Israeli consul general in Istanbul to leave the country temporarily, state media said today, the latest of a series of tit-for-tat expulsions in a growing crisis over Israel’s deadly firing on Palestinians on the Gaza border. The Turkish foreign ministry has told the consul to leave Turkey “for a period of time”, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Turkey had already withdrawn its ambassador in Tel Aviv for consultations and told the Israeli ambassador to Ankara to leave, while Israel ordered the…

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Paris, May 16 (DIN NEWS) Former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy faces a hearing today on whether he must stand trial on charges of illicit financing of his failed 2012 presidential campaign, one of several legal inquiries which have dogged the rightwing politician since he left office. If an appeals court upholds a judge’s decision last year ordering the trial, Sarkozy could face a potentially embarrassing public ordeal as well as up to a year in prison if convicted. Prosecutors claim Sarkozy spent nearly 43 million euros (USD 51 million) on his…

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Washington, May 15 (DIN NEWS) The Indo-Pacific is of huge importance to India and the world as the fulcrum of economic and political activity is moving from the Atlantic to this region, India’s envoy to the US has said and called for a rule-based approach to reap benefits for all. Indian Ambassador to the US Navtej Singh Sarna said the entire blue economy was virtually untouched in terms of exploration and development. “It (Indo-Pacific region) has a huge importance, not only in India but for the world because as you see…

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Gaza City, May 15 (DIN NEWS) Fresh protests were expected today a day after Israeli forces killed 59 Palestinians during clashes and protests along the Gaza border against the US embassy opening in Jerusalem in the conflict’s bloodiest day in years. Palestinians today mark the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” commemorating the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. It comes a day after the United States transferred its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to the disputed city of Jerusalem in a move that…

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Singapore, May 14 (DIN NEWS) North Korea’s latest and largest underground nuclear test last year was powerful enough to move a mountain, say scientists who found that the bomb was 10 times stronger than the one dropped by the US on Hiroshima during World War II. Researchers, including those from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and University of California, Berkeley in the US, showed how the explosion altered the mountain above the detonation. The nuclear test on September 3, 2017 took place under Mt Mantap at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site…

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