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The head of Bangladesh’s refugee commission said plans to begin the repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar yesterday were scrapped after officials were unable to find anyone who wanted to return. The refugees “are not willing to go back now,”

North Korean state media on Friday said leader Kim Jong Un had overseen the testing of a “newly-developed high-tech weapon,” according to South Korean Yonhap news agency. “Kim Jong Un inspected the testing of a newly-developed high-tech tactical weapon at the

The People’s Protection Units (YPG) is the Syrian wing of PKK terrorist group but the U.S. does not recognize it as such, U.S. Special Representative for Syria James Jeffrey said Thursday. Jeffrey spoke at a panel at the Defense One Summit,

Britain’s Brexit minister Dominic Raab resigned on Thursday in protest at Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal for leaving the European Union. “I regret to say that, following the Cabinet meeting yesterday on the Brexit deal, I must resign,” he said in

An international investigation on the murdering of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi has become a necessity, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said late Wednesday. “We will do whatever it takes to bring the murder to light. We have shown the evidence to

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday that cabinet had backed her Brexit plan, adding it was in the national interest but that there would be difficult days ahead. “The collective decision of cabinet was that the government should agree

Italy’s premier hosted a meeting Tuesday of Libya’s rival leaders on the sidelines of a conference aiming to help its former colony crack down on Islamic militants and human trafficking. Photos of the encounter show Premier Giuseppe Conte presiding over a

Turkish archeologists discovered two 7,500-year-old footprints in the northwestern Bursa province of Turkey. Necmi Karul, an archeology professor at Istanbul University, who also leads the excavations the Aktopraklık settlement, told Anadolu Agency that archeologists found two “alternate” footprints on the base