The island nation will no longer be subject to the Financial Action Task Force’s monitoring under its on-going global anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML\/CFT) compliance process. read more

The images in his country’s official media showed a bespectacled Kim, wearing a long, light-brown coat and riding up snow-covered Mount Paektu on horseback. read more

The top four leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba \/Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) arrested on Thursday have been identified as Professor Zafar Iqbal, Yahya Aziz, Muhammad Ashraf and Abdul Salam. read more

Delhi will have to sign the trade pact but must zealously guard its interests read more

The North Korean ship, believed to be a fishing vessel, capsized after the crash with Japanese patrol boat Okuni in the Sea of Japan. read more

Exchanging congratulatory messages with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in the past 70 years, the “traditional friendship” between the two countries stood the “test of time and changes in the international landsc... read more

Saturday’s talks were the first between the U.S. and North Korea since the February breakdown of the second summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in Vietnam. read more

North Korea’s Kim Myong Gil and Stephen Biegun, the special envoy of US President Donald Trump, are part of the teams at an island off Stockholm. read more

Japan’s PM said he wants to meet Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, even though he keeps testing missiles. North Korea has resumed missile tests ahead of a resumption of nuclear negotiations with US this weekend. read more

South Korea expressed strong concern and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned the launch, saying it was a violation of UN Security Council resolutions read more

Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s first vice minister of foreign affairs, said the two nations will have preliminary contact on Friday before holding working-level talks on Saturday. read more

Bajrang Punia lost his semifinal bout against home wrestler Daulet Niyazbekov under controversial circumstances after sealing his Tokyo Olympics quota. read more

Mirabai’s earlier national record was 199kg (88kg+111kg) which she recorded in the Asian Weightlifting Championship in China in April. read more

Trump said Bolton had made mistakes, including offending North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un by demanding that he follow a “Libyan model” and hand over all his nuclear weapons. read more

Travelling on trains across Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Tibet, Vietnam, North Korea, Canada and the US gave the author fresh insights into life and into humankind read more