“Now we can say that all strings between the Koreas have been cut and that there are no more buffers”, said Ko Yoo-Hwan, a professor of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University in Seoul.
The first deadline under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan was supposed to be in September. This decision is a huge loss for our kids’ future and for all Americans who care about the health of our planet, and a huge win for the polluters and the...
He added that the 15-nation council “restated their intent to develop significant measures in a new Security Council resolution in response to the nuclear test” in January, as well as Sunday’s rocket launch.
Beijing has in the past proved reluctant to support biting multilateral sanctions against North Korea, for fear of destabilizing a regime on China’s border.
The court dealt a serious blow to the Obama administration’s climate change agenda on Tuesday when it took the unusual step of delaying implementation of the Clean Power Plan until legal challenges to the regulation are completed.
Earlier on Tuesday, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said the city would replace all residents’ pipes and was counting on state and federal help to foot the estimated $55 million bill.
The UAE is ready to send troops to Syria as part of an worldwide coalition to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a government minister has said.
But on Wednesday, Seoul announced it was suspending all operations of the 124 South Korean companies in Kaesong, and yesterday, Pyongyang responded by expelling all the firms’ managers and freezing their factories’ assets. The official report, however, was published...
Hillary Clinton is now running behind Sanders in New Hampshire, a fact most Clinton aides are happy to point out in an effort to lower expectations. “I also think Hillary’s own age may simply have less appeal and relevancy to those female voters who are much younger...
So far, the U.S.-led coalition’s anti-ISIS strategy in Syria has been two-fold: to carry out a series of targeted airstrikes aimed at cutting off militants’ finances and leadership and to create a strong ground force by arming moderate rebels.
He told reporters in Dubai on Tuesday that reports of possible ground- troop deployments, as well as the massing of refugees at the Turkish border, require restraint from all sides.
In an interview with AFP released on February 12, Assad asserted that all opposition groups that have taken up arms against the government are “terrorists”, and thus his forces can continue to fight them during peace negotiations.