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The UN aims to build local ceasefires and humanitarian operations across the country as part of global peace talks between the regime and rebels scheduled for the end of January.

Eight of the victims are reportedly in critical conditions.

North Korea says last week’s test was of a miniaturised hydrogen bomb – a claim largely dismissed by experts who argue the yield was far too low for a fully fledged thermonuclear device.

The city has $515 million in debt and has lost 100,000 students since 1999, the newspaper reported.

Media reported that it was a drone.

Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of launching an aerial attack against its embassy in Yemen’s capital, escalating the two nations’ growing conflict.

Iran could comply with last summer’s nuclear deal as early as Friday or this weekend, officials said, requiring the United States and other nations to immediately suspend billions of dollars’ worth of economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

YANJI, China An ethnic Korean woman in a cafe near China’s border with North Korea said she was terrified on hearing of the North’s announcement this week that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.

South Korea’s Defence Ministry said yesterday that Seoul and Washington are having “close and continuous discussions” about further deployment of American strategic assets.

The two Navy boats experienced mechanical problems and accidentally entered the country’s territorial waters, US officials said.

“That’s why I was shocked that the president made no mention of North Korea’s recent nuclear test during his speech”.

Turkish authorities on Wednesday probed how a jihadist from Syria killed 10 mainly German tourists in a attack in the heart of Istanbul that raised alarm over security in the city.

The bug in question can cause the system to hang under complex workloads.

A South Korean soldier stands near the loudspeakers near the border area between South Korea and North Korea in Yeoncheon, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.