AFP, SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered further nuclear tests, state media said Friday, as military tensions surge on the Korean peninsula with South Korean and US forces engaged in large-scale joint exercises condemned by Pyongyang. Since the joint drills began Monday, the North has…

AFP, MIAMI: Retired neurosurgeon and onetime Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is set to endorse Donald Trump, a rival who once mocked him, on Friday, the billionaire frontrunner said. Carson himself told Fox News radio on Thursday that “I’m certainly leaning” towards a…

AFP, KUWAIT CITY: An American has been stabbed and wounded in Kuwait and the assailant arrested, the US embassy said, urging nationals to remain alert to the threat of attack by extremists. “The embassy informs US citizens that a US citizen was stabbed on Thursday morning, March 10, in Fintas,”…

AFP, NAYPYIDAW: A trusted aide of Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday sailed through a lower house vote to be Myanmar’s presidential nominee, clearing a key hurdle to becoming the country’s first civilian leader in generations. Htin Kyaw, a respected writer who helps run Suu Kyi’s charitable…

AFP, RAMALLAH: Israeli forces raided the West Bank offices of Palestine Today television overnight and arrested its manager over allegations of inciting violence, Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency said on Friday. The operation targeting the station’s Ramallah offices was the latest…

AFP, TURCO, Bolivia: Danish chef Kamilla Seidler is carefully preparing steak tartare at Gustu, an upscale restaurant in the Bolivian capital La Paz. But instead of the usual beef, she is making it with llama meat, a traditional favorite in Bolivia that is gaining new status as producers hail it as…

AFP, COLOMBO: Six people were killed in two incidents of apparently gang-related violence in Sri Lanka on Friday, police said, despite a tough crackdown ordered last week. Five were found burned to death in a van on a remote stretch of road outside Colombo, their bodies too charred to be easily identified.…