New commercial satellite imagery indicates North Korea has resumed operation of a reactor at its main nuclear site used to produce plutonium for its nuclear weapons program. North Korea has maintained its nuclear and missile programs in violation of repeated rounds of international sanctions. News of the reactor restart comes at a time of rising concern about North Korea’s weapons … Read More

Its reported a ballistic missile launched by Iran was North Korean in construction or design, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon identified the missile as a locally produced version of the Musudan, a North Korean intermediate-range missile. An anonymous U.S. government official told Reuters the missile was launched from a test site near Senman, east of the Iranian capital of Tehran. … Read More

In the first request made by the United States since new U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley took office, the United Nations Security Council scheduled an urgent meeting to discuss an Iranian ballistic missile test. U.S. officials are bringing the latest test before the Security Council determining Iran violated a UN resolution barring Iran from developing missiles “designed to carry nuclear warheads.” Iran has … Read More

Iran has illegally test-fired a ballistic missile – the first known test since President Trump took office. Afterwards, Iran warned the U.S. not to create tensions over the test. The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement calling the test a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed as a side agreement to the 2015 … Read More

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence fired up tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists who gathered in Washington for the March for Life. “Life is winning again in America,” Pence told the demonstrators on the National Mall. Pence, a longtime advocate of the anti-abortion movement, is the most senior government official to speak in person at the rally, organizers said. As … Read More

US President Donald Trump has said that Syrian Christians will get priority for refugee status in America during an interview set to air on Sunday. In a clip from the president’s interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Mr Trump says that Christians in Syria have been “horribly treated” before going on to add: “If you were a Christian in … Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive action implementing “new vetting measures” that he says are aimed at keeping terrorists out of the United States. “I’m establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America. We don’t want ’em here,” Trump declared. “We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country … Read More

A medical study has concluded the world is collectively “grossly under-prepared” for future disease outbreaks. In recent years, there has been global panic-inducing disease outbreaks. From Ebola to Zika, fortunately none were quite as bad or far-reaching as predicted. But the reaction to those outbreaks has shown that health officials may be dramatically unprepared for the next epidemic. The researchers analyzed … Read More

Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied congressional opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority. GOP members of Congress had been holding up the money. In addition to the $221 million released to the Palestinian Authority,  $4 million was released for climate change and $1.25 million to U.N. organizations. Congressional holds are generally respected … Read More