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When asked about South Korea’s announcement, the spokesman, Hong Lei, said China “supports a response from the U.N Security Council on the nuclear test” in an apparent reference to a statement issued by the world body’s highest decision-making body after...

For current sanctions and any new penalties to work, better cooperation and stronger implementation from China, the North’s diplomatic and economic protector and a veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council, are seen as key.

“We are cooperating closely with the United States and allies to come up with effective sanctions that will make North Korea feel bone-numbing pain, not only at the Security Council but also bilaterally and multilaterally”, she said in a speech.

Pyongyang is extremely sensitive to any outside criticism of his authoritarian leadership, and its reaction could be especially harsh because of the high emotions surrounding his likely birthday.

Separate militant groups, the Pakistani Taliban and Jundullah, a Taliban splinter group, both claimed responsibility for the attack, Reuters reported.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has told the federal government that the needs of people in Flint during the water crisis “far exceed the state’s capability”.

The assault ended when two of the attackers were killed in a suicide bombing, said police, with the other three killed in gun battles.

The good news in Liberia, which will now enter a three month period of heightened surveillance, follows Guinea’s declaration of its Ebola-free status in December and Sierra Leone’s in November past year.

Davutoglu said Turkish forces attacked numerous Islamic State terrorist group targets along its border with Syria and near a Turkish camp in northern Iraq.

This follows the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric, which led to a severing of diplomatic ties between the two countries. Gasoline stockpiles rose 10.6 million barrels last week, the most since May 1993, government data show.

Windows were blown off and shop shutters were folded in from the force of the blast.

More than 200 populated localities have been liberated from ISIS during the Russian Aerospace Forces’ operation in Syria, head of the General Staff’s main operative department Sergei Rudskoi said on January 15.

The Supreme Court’s record in settling presidential election disputes isn’t pretty.

“I don’t want to live in a country with unequal health insurance”, said the former first daughter after being asked about Sanders’ plan.

“Some sense of stability does seem to have been wrestled into the Chinese yuan this week, but the Chinese equity markets have been more immune to muscular shows of state intervention”, said Angus Nicholson, market analyst at IG.