By Agence France-Presse North Korea’s Kim Jong Un branded South Korea his country’s “principal enemy” and warned he would not hesitate to annihilate it as he toured major weapons factories, state media said Wednesday. The report follows recent live-fire exercises by Pyongyang’s military near the contested maritime border that prompted counter-drills and evacuation orders for […]
By Agence France-Presse President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday named education minister Gabriel Attal as prime minister in a bid to give new momentum to his presidency, with the 34-year-old becoming France’s youngest and first openly gay head of government, a source close to the presidency told AFP. After days of intense behind-the-scenes maneuvring, outgoing prime […]
By Agence France-Presse Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa on Monday declared a country-wide state of emergency, including the prison system, after an “extremely dangerous” narco boss escaped from his maximum security cell and unrest erupted at several penitentiaries. “I have just signed a decree for a state of emergency so that the armed forces have all […]