DIPLOMACY

North Korea had said after a recent missile test that fresh united Nations (UN) sanctions would only make the state accelerate its nuclear programme.

The total population of four out of the eight countries who backed the US plan to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital is 191,000 - smaller than Huntsville, Alabama.

British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who has been held in Iran for more than 18 months is eligible for early release.

The former foreign secretary William Hague says that Russia is not Britain's enemy, as his successor is set to hold talks in Moscow.

Israeli police troopers shot a man wearing what looked like a suicide bomb vest after he stabbed an officer near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sharply criticised Israel at the opening of a summit of Islamic nations in Istanbul, calling it a "terror state."

Tax overhaul could violate international obligations and risks having "a major distortive impact" on trade.

North Korea's long running film series about how terrible it is everywhere that's not North Korea.

Eurosceptic politician Daniel Hannan offers some thoughts which would, in 'normal circumstances', be uncontroversial.

Trump had promised along the campaign trail to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, despite international warnings, he's making good on that promise.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warns that Donald Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem Israel's capital will play into the hands of terror groups in Middle East.

Latest tit-for-tat between Russia and the US over government-funded media outlets sees Voice of America ejected.

Pope Francis joins world leaders in criticising US President Donald Trump's expected recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Officials said on Tuesday night that Trump will make the announcement on Wednesday to recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and move the US embassy.

President Nicolas Maduro says move designed to by-pass financial sanctions slapped on Caracas.

The reported visit of Donald Trump to the UK in February will spark the biggest protest in the country, organisers have said. The US leader is said to be planning a working but not full state visit.

The US President reportedly spoke on the matter for over an hour with aides as the deadline to waive a 1995 law mandating the move looms.

Mohammed Saleh Al-Sada tells IBTimes UK that global crude demand remains healthy and the market is rebalancing.

US state department spokesperson Heather Nauert says there is no better representative of a woman entrepreneur in the US than Ivanka Trump, who heads summit in Hyderabad.

In his first public Mass in Myanmar, Pope Francis urged the country's long-suffering ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for the hurt they have endured.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff in the first launch since September.

Crude futures slide on perceived uptick in US production and Russian reluctance to go along with cartel.

Japanese authorities are investigating after a ship with eight decomposed bodies was found on a beach in the Aikita province.

The EU commission has told cities hoping to become the next UK Capital of Culture to forget about the whole thing.

Israeli blogger Ben Tzion has provoked outrage in the Arab world by posing for a picture in Medina's holy Mosque of the Prophet Muhammed.

Suspension leaves North Korea's Air Koryo as the only airline with regularly scheduled overseas services.

Sir Christopher Greenwood was in competition with Indian candidate Dalveer Bhandari for the 15th and final vacancy on the ICJ before the UK mission announced its decision to step down.

The US President said the new designation would furhter increase the "maximum pressure campaign" against North Korea as it continues its nuclear ambitions.

Vijay Mallya is facing extradition to India on money laundering charges following a request by the Narendra Modi administration.