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Jeong said that the latest measure is necessary to secure the safety of South Koreans, considering the possibility that inter-Korean tensions will grow at border areas following the government’s decision to resume loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts toward the North.

The efforts were beset by several hitches, including the detention of 10 USA sailors by Iran last week in the Persian Gulf and US plans in late December to impose new sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile testing.

Pakistani police say gunmen have stormed a university in the country’s northwest and have wounded at least five people in the attack.

Leila Alaoui, the French-Moroccan photographer and video artist known for her poetic and unsentimental images of daily life in the Mediterranean and Middle East, died last night from injuries sustained during last week’s terrorist attack in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop before next months earliest in the nation presidential primary, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, in Windham, N.H.

“Whatever you do first, you need to get a good start”, was de Villiers’s assessment.

There were conflicting reports on the death toll at Bacha Khan University in the city of Charsadda, with regional police chief Saeed Wazir telling AFP the number of dead had risen to 21.

The intentional starvation of the Syrian people in besieged areas constitutes a war crime, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday in NY.

Tsai’s election as the fourth directly elected president of Taiwan marks a significant political transition as the Democratic Progressive Party also gained control of the Taiwanese legislature, occupying 68 seats of the 113 seat legislature after Saturday’s elections...

He has been arrested from Haryana early this morning, said Banaglore police officer P Harisekaran.

The grandmother of the five children, who were all cousins, discovered their dead bodies later that evening.

The prime minister – who had a telephonic conversation with Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif following the attack – said that the operation against terrorists must continue with full-swing.

Congressman Jim Costa sees the prisoner release and the nuclear deal with Iran as a cautious step forward.

“We’re talking, like, 200 times further away than the outermost planet now, Neptune”, said Wiggins.

The new punishment came one day after the Obama administration lifted economic penalties against Iran over its nuclear program.