DIPLOMACY

The US president Donald Trump told the UK PM Theresa May she could be the next Churchill, it has been reported.

Some Russian politicians have opposed the release of the film, which they claim is "extremist" and offensive.

Police in Japan have arrested and charged two Chinese men who smuggled banned goods into North Korea.

The Aegis Ashore systems will cover all of Japan- one from the northern shores and one from the south east.

The Bayeux Tapestry which depicts the Norman invasion in 1066 will come to Britain for the first time in nearly a millennium.

Michael Wolff said that President Donald Trump's cancellation of his visit to London was not over the US's embassy but instead the kind of welcome he might receive.

Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has mocked advice to Australian tourists to watch out for polar bears.

Japan claims that a Chinese vessel spotted last week near the contested Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands was a nuclear-powered attack submarine.

North and South Korea plan to send joint ice hockey team to Winter Olympics in Seoul. North Korean delegation also includes an orchestra.

Reports suggest that US President Donald Trump has cancelled a trip to the UK next month, which would be the first time he has visited Great Britain since he took office.

US State Department warns of serious security risks in week Donald Trump's lawyers meet Mueller investigators.

Tamaulipas on the US border and Sinaloa, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero on the Pacific coast are the states that have been put under the most dangerous places.

Equine gift to Chinese leader at opening of state visit by French president follows present of panda to Macron's wife Brigitte.

North Korea had said after a recent missile test that fresh united Nations (UN) sanctions would only make the state accelerate its nuclear programme.

The total population of four out of the eight countries who backed the US plan to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital is 191,000 - smaller than Huntsville, Alabama.

British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who has been held in Iran for more than 18 months is eligible for early release.

The former foreign secretary William Hague says that Russia is not Britain's enemy, as his successor is set to hold talks in Moscow.

Israeli police troopers shot a man wearing what looked like a suicide bomb vest after he stabbed an officer near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sharply criticised Israel at the opening of a summit of Islamic nations in Istanbul, calling it a "terror state."

North Korea's long running film series about how terrible it is everywhere that's not North Korea.

Eurosceptic politician Daniel Hannan offers some thoughts which would, in 'normal circumstances', be uncontroversial.

Trump had promised along the campaign trail to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, despite international warnings, he's making good on that promise.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warns that Donald Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem Israel's capital will play into the hands of terror groups in Middle East.

Pope Francis joins world leaders in criticising US President Donald Trump's expected recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Officials said on Tuesday night that Trump will make the announcement on Wednesday to recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and move the US embassy.

President Nicolas Maduro says move designed to by-pass financial sanctions slapped on Caracas.

The reported visit of Donald Trump to the UK in February will spark the biggest protest in the country, organisers have said. The US leader is said to be planning a working but not full state visit.

The US President reportedly spoke on the matter for over an hour with aides as the deadline to waive a 1995 law mandating the move looms.

Mohammed Saleh Al-Sada tells IBTimes UK that global crude demand remains healthy and the market is rebalancing.