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The crisis erupted as South Korea refused to silence giant loudspeakers – in defiance of a warning by the North. In sending messages of war and offer of a possibility of a way out of the situation, North Koreans are up to their usual antics – trying to foment discord...

But Prime Minister Tony Abbott says while the legalities of helping with air strikes over Syria are different to Iraq, where the government invited Australia to fight, the moralities are exactly the same.

Even Jeb Bush, who famously called illegal immigration an “act of love”, tacked to the right.

Carson said he was not saying the U.S. should use drone strikes on people crossing the border, but only as a way to go after the caves used to smuggle people across the border. “And those fences are so easy to scale, it’s nearly like not having them there”. Are...

Canberra – using six F/A18 combat jets and two support aircraft based in the United Arab Emirates – joined the raids in Iraq but not the strikes on targets in Syria, citing legal concerns.

The U.S. on Wednesday launched its first airstrikes by Turkey-based F-16 fighter jets against Islamic State targets in Syria, marking a limited escalation of a yearlong air campaign that critics have called excessively cautious.

The Abbott government will spend at least a week considering whether Australia should join the fight against Islamic State in Syria.

North Korea proposed the talks on Friday, according to South Korea’s presidential office.

South Korea’s Director of National Security Kim Kwan-jin and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo joined the talks, as well as Hwang Pyong-so, the director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean Army, and Kim Yang-gon, the top official in charge of inter-Korean...

The talks in Panmunjom were led by South Korean national security adviser Kim Kwan-Jin and his North Korean counterpart Hwang Pyong-So – a close confidante of leader Kim Jong-Un.

The request from the US stems from its recognition that the base of the Islamic State forces must be attacked more effectively, and frequently.

Hwang is considered by outside analysts to be North Korea’s second most important official after supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

“We will expedite it so people can come back in”.

Trump said the wall would be made of “beautiful, nice precast plank with attractive everything”. We’re gonna get them out so fast, out of this country.

Attendants at the meeting include Hwang Pyong So, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, Kim Yang Gon, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on the North Korean side and Kim Kwan-jin, chief of the National...