MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — Two attackers believed to be members of a militant network that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group blew themselves up outside a packed Roman Catholic cathedral during a Palm Sunday Mass on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, wounding at least 20 people, police said. Rev. Wilhelmus Tulak, a priest at the Sacred […]

North Korea sent a simple message at the military parade last week to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party: Kim Jong Un’s commitment to his nuclear arsenal is unflagging and he puts no stock in accommodating South Korean President Moon Jae-in or his “special relationship” with U.S. President […]

One question swirled among North Korea watchers this weekend—where is Kim Jong Un ?—as the dictator’s unexplained absence stretched past two weeks and Twitter lighted up with speculation about his incapacitation or death. As of late Sunday, there was little information about the third-generation leader’s health. The guessing game began when Mr. Kim missed the […]

The son of Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols has been arrested again in the Las Vegas Valley. Joshua Nichols, 38, was booked on a warrant Monday at the Clark County Detention Center. He is accused of cutting an electronic monitoring bracelet as he awaits trial on charges that he and another man kidnapped and […]

He’s the odd Un out! North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is surrounded by army girls with identikit hair cuts and hats as he visits a remote military outpost Kim visited the women’s company under Unit 5492 of the Korean People’s Army  The women all sported identical haircuts and matching uniforms in the picture Kim smiled […]

LONDON: During the night of April 8, 1961, 11-year-old Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the future ruler of Dubai, was awoken by the sound of a ferocious storm battering the royal palace. As a child, he had heard the elders of his grandfather’s generation recall phenomenal storms of such savagery that they likened them to the […]

Makassar and Medan, Indonesia – Christian communities across Indonesia are bracing for further attacks ahead of Easter Sunday following a suicide bombing at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, Sulawesi on Palm Sunday, which marks the start of the Christian Holy Week. “We invite all Catholics and Protestant congregations in Indonesia and around […]

The South Korean government cast doubt Tuesday on rumors that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was gravely ill, but U.S. officials said he may be incapacitated after heart surgery. Speculation about Kim’s health has mounted after he failed to attend his late grandfather’s birthday celebrations on April 15, the most important date in North […]

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A Zimbabwean who went missing during a terrorist onslaught on the northern Mozambican town of Palma on March 24 is dead, his family said on Monday. Nyasha Mugwagwa, 38, was working as a catering manager for Remote Site Solutions, one of the contracted companies at the multibillion-dollar gas projects being built […]

WASHINGTON — For Gen. Mark Milley, the Pentagon ceremony Wednesday was personal. Twenty years ago, Milley stood on an airfield in Hawaii to see home the bodies of Army Lt. Cols. Ronnie Cory and George Martin, two men he had served with who died on a mission to help bring home the remains of fallen service […]