
China has agreed to “strong” new measures to punish North Korea if it carries out a nuclear test, Seoul said Monday after the US signaled it may act to shut down Pyongyang’s weapons program. South Korea’s top nuclear envoy made the comment after talks with his Chinese counterpart Wu Dawei, ...

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said on Monday Russia was “in an inch from the confrontation” with the United States following the US missile strike on the Syrian Shairat airbase. “And if it turns out that the terrorists spread the [poison] gas, what the United States will do? If terrorists find ...