UN report accuses Pyongyang of selling weapons, exporting banned materials and violating sanctions. North Korea has been selling weapons to the governments of Syria and Myanmar, and has been exporting banned materials such as coal, iron, and steel, a United Nations report has found. According to the report released on Friday, Pyongyang has been assisting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government […]

UNRWA is missing millions of dollars from its budget after the US cut funding to the agency. Now, it cannot guarantee food distribution for the rest of the year. The head of the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza warns that it cannot guarantee food distribution beyond the end of June. The agency is blaming major funding cuts […]

government seeks $90bn for reconstruction. In Iraq’s western Anbar province, tribesmen starting to rebuild have warned they will take revenge on the families of ISIL fighters if they return. Anbar is the biggest province in Iraq and one of the last places to be freed from ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group. ISIL, also known as ISIS, swept into […]

It’s Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Let’s start here. Interested in Start Here Morning Briefing ? 1. Trump Jr.’s blocked calls went to family friends Mystery long surrounded three blocked phone calls Donald Trump Jr. made before and after the now-infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016. There were questions of whether he informed his father about the controversial meeting, but […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is expected to try and shore up its political support with big ticket farm giveaways and tax cuts for the middle class in its final federal budget on Friday, months before elections. Modi is facing growing discontent over depressed farm incomes and doubts over whether his policies are creating enough […]

Border situation ‘tense’ after four soldiers die and one is wounded in Rajouri sector in the Jammu region. Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Four Indian soldiers, including an officer, have been killed in the latest cross-border clashes in Indian-administered Kashmir. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, deputy commissioner of Rajouri sector, told Al Jazeera the four troops were killed and one wounded after the Pakistani army opened fire […]

#MCCToo scandal as married cricket official and father-of-three, 52, quits job at Lord’s after ‘having inappropriate sexual relationships with staff’ Jonathan Robinson resigned from Marylebone Cricket Club amid investigation  Probe was set to get underway into allegations of ‘inappropriate relationships’ The former cricketer was alleged to have had affairs with junior members of staff Jonathan Robinson resigned from his post as […]

Misconduct suits against the NYPD rose last year, following two years of declines, according to new city data. Some 1,586 aggrieved arrestees filed claims against the NYPD in 2018 — compared with 1,391 in 2017. The number of suits had trended downward since at least 2014, when there were 3,084 such cases. Meanwhile, payouts have skyrocketed, as the glut of […]

Nabeel Rajab’s charges include a 2015 social media post criticising Saudi Arabia’s invasion of Yemen. A court in Bahrain has convicted political activist Nabeel Rajab and sentenced him to five years in prison, for his comments online denouncing Saudi Arabia’s role in the war in Yemen and for criticising prison abuse in his country.   The Bahrain Center for Human […]

As conservators removed an old viewing platform to fit a new air filtration system, they found ancient writings, jinxing and calling for curses on others. Other scraps of ancient parchment were found asking for blessings from the boy king. The discovery was made after a decade-long project between the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute. […]