U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s planned meeting with a senior North Korean official Thursday in New York City has been postponed. The State Department issued a statement early Wednesday morning saying the meeting “will now take place at a later date. We will reconvene when our respective schedules permit.” The statement did not give […]
A Turkish presidential adviser and friend of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says his body was cut up and dissolved in acid for easier disposal, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported Friday. “According to the latest information we have, the reason they dismembered his body is to dissolve it easier” before it was disposed of, Yasin Aktay told […]
Indonesian navy divers say they have recovered one of the “black boxes” from the wreckage of Lion Air Flight JT-610, which crashed into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta early Monday morning. The divers told local television reporters Thursday they found one of the plane’s recorders from the sea floor and […]
PENTAGON — About 50,000 NATO personnel from 31 NATO and partner countries are springing to action Thursday at the start of the alliance’s Trident Juncture exercise, its largest drills since the end of the Cold War. The massive exercise takes place in and around Norway and involves about 65 ships, 250 aircraft and 10,000 vehicles. ‘We […]