While the rationale for US President Donald Trump’s Iran war is difficult to decipher, its main beneficiary is far easier to identify: Russian President Vladimir Putin. In making the case for military action against the Islamic Republic, Trump and his advisers have leaned heavily on moral outrage, portraying its leaders as “wicked,” citing the regime’s “brutal oppression of its ...

WASHINGTON -- US and Israeli attacks on Iran have driven up prices, darkened the outlook for the world economy, sent global stock markets reeling and forced developing countries to ration fuel and subsidize energy costs to protect their poorest. Ongoing strikes and counterstrikes on Persian Gulf refineries , pipelines, gas fields and tanker terminals threaten to the prolong the ...

DANDONG, China -- Now retired, Wang Meili wants to see the world -- including North Korea, the reclusive nation that lies across the river from her lifelong home in northeastern China. North Korea has long kept tight control over foreign visitors, and effectively sealed its borders at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic six years ago. It has since partly reopened and restored dai...

Twenty years after "The Devil Wears Prada" turned Miranda Priestly into shorthand for terrifying bosses, co-stars Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway are bringing their long-awaited sequel to South Korea. The two will visit the country on April 8 to promote the upcoming "The Devil Wears Prada 2," Walt Disney Company Korea said Saturday. The sequel, which reunites ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has instructed officials to open an embassy in North Korea following his summit with the North's leader Kim Jong-un, according to a news report Sunday. Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov shared the details with reporters after Lukashenko's two-day official visit to Pyongyang earlier this week, its state media Belta rep...