BEIJING: Foreign journalists headed to North Korea yesterday to witness the promised destruction of its nuclear test site, a move seen as a goodwill gesture before a planned summit with the United States, reports AFP. Dozens of reporters from China, the United States and Russia departed on a charter…

WASHINGTON: Veteran CIA officer Gina Haspel was sworn in as the agency’s first female director Monday, hailing the “heroines” who had…

PUTRAJAYA: Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak was questioned by anti-corruption authorities yesterday after his shock election loss, as the top graft fighter revealed he faced threats and a bullet in the post when the old regime suppressed a probe into a massive corruption scandal, reports AFP. Najib’s…

ANKARA: A Turkish court on Monday handed life sentences to 104 suspects over their involvement in the July 2016 attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports AFP quoting state media. The former military personnel were given “aggravated life sentences” by a court in the western…