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Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman bragged to Rolling Stone about his prowess in selling heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana-we can now add men’s apparel to that list, with sales of the shirts El Chapo was photographed in flying off the shelves.

SEOUL – US forces in South Korea were put on their highest level of alert on Monday in case of any provocation from North Korea, following North Korea’s nuclear test last week.

Saudi coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri said the claim would be investigated but that accusations based on the Houthis “have no credibility”, Reuters reported.

Washington and Seoul are not discussing the restoration of nuclear weapons to South Korea after last week’s atomic test by North Korea, a USA official said on Monday, saying this could spark a regional arms race.

The Junior Doctors strike is their first walkout in 40 years.

Tensions between Saudia Arabia, the Middle East’s main Sunni Muslim state, and Shi’ite Muslim Iran, reached boiling point when Riyadh executed Shi’ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr on January 2, 2016.

US and South Korean media said the strategic assets Washington was considering included the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier US Ronald Reagan, B-2 bombers, nuclear-powered submarines and F-22 stealth fighter jets.

The world’s fifth-largest crude importer brought 207,629 tonnes of Iranian crude in December, or 49,094 barrels per day (bpd), compared with 548,598 tonnes a year ago, preliminary data from its customs office showed on Friday. US equities rose Thursday after the biggest...

Earlier on Wednesday, the Turkish interior minister, Efkan Ala, said at a press conference with his German counterpart that Turkey was “seriously investigating” the attack and its perpetrators, and that the first suspect had been detained after the blast on Tuesday.

Iran also backs the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his country’s civil war while Saudi Arabia insists he must go for any legitimate peace process to take place.

Expectations were high on Saturday as the Iranian foreign minister said that nuclear-related sanctions on his country would be lifted imminently, with some Iranian social media accounts saying the official announcement was coming within “the hour”.

Worldwide sanctions on Iran may be lifted Monday, allowing for a boost in oil shipments from the fifth-biggest member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The collapse in oil prices has spooked financial markets as investors anxious about the health of the global...

The North Korean object turned around after the South fired the shots, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

India and Pakistan said Thursday they have postponed talks after a fatal attack on an Indian air base that New Delhi blames on a banned Pakistan-based group.

While the statement did not announce any specific action against Iran, it did say that a four-nation committee has been formed to discuss relations between the two countries.