POLITICS

According to a former British ambassador to Tokyo, Japan views the United Kingdom leaving the European Union as an act of medium and long-term political and economical "self-harm".

Questions regarding Viktor and Amalija Knavs come at a time when Trump's immigration policies have forced families to be torn apart.

Turkey's president warned Washington's troops with "Ottoman slap" if it does not stop funding Kurdish fighters.

The South African president Jacob Zuma has resigned his position with immediate effect. He had been given a deadline of Wednesday by the ANC.

Jacob Zuma has quit as president of South Africa. He has been embroiled in a rape trial, corruption, an arms deal, using public money for his home and association with the Guptas.

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died at age 65, his party spokesman says.

Delays and a lack of clarity are putting officials and EU citizens in an "impossible position" a new report on immigration after Brexit has said.

Data from the EU statistics office shows that the economy of the 28-member EU grew by 2.5% in 2017, its best performance since it grew 2.7% in 2007.

US President Donald Trump has said he will no longer allow the US to be China's 'piggy bank', as he discussed tariffs and quotas for steel and aluminium imports.

All Dutch adults to automatically become organ donors unless they opt out under new law approved by Senate in the Netherlands.

"This sounds like something from the Great Depression, not 2018," Democratic Representative Jim McGovern tweeted.

The bill, which will come to approximately 2.86bn Korean won (£1.9m, $2.64m), will be paid from the South's Ministry of Unification budget.

Foreign secretary Boris Johnson will say that it is "intolerable" for the EU to impose laws on the UK after Brexit.

Israeli police on Tuesday (13 February) recommended bribery charges in two separate cases for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

More than one third of the White House staff left their positions in the first year of Donald Trump's presidency; a rate unmatched in the previous five administrations.

The French government has announced it will introduce a "Universal National Service" for young citizens, as President Emmanuel Macron delivers on one of his campaign pledges.

The Oxfam revelations are far more disturbing than the reports of boorish behaviour by businessmen at The Presidents Club dinner.

"Surprise, the lying liar @realDonaldTrump lied again," one Twitter user wrote.

Twitter users roasted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over her "ridiculous" and "bullsh*it" defence of Trump's response to the Rob Porter scandal.

Israel will boycott the Israeli Film Festival in Paris over its screening of Foxtrot - an Israeli film in which IDF soldiers kill and bury four Arab youths.

Commonwealth leaders are gathering in London where they will begin secret discussions as to who will succeed Queen Elizabeth II as head of the organisation.

Kim Jong-un has called for "livening up of the warm climate of reconciliation" between the two Koreas after the successful visit of a Northern delegation to the Winter Olympics.

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC has unveiled new portraits of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.

The daughter-in-law of US President Donald Trump was taken to hospital after police say she opened a letter filled with white powder. Authorities think it was nonhazardous.

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has been abducted by armed men from a restaurant in Kiev, Ukraine, after a court rejected his appeal against extradition to Georgia.

The social media reach of state-run Russian news networks eclipsed that of the largest Leave campaigns in the run up to the Brexit referendum.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to continue strikes in Syria despite the risk of sparking a conflict with Iran via its Syrian and Lebanese proxies.

The dip in the stock market is being blamed on a cabal trying to undermine the US president.

The North Korean cheerleaders attending the Winter Olympics have sparked a row by donning face masks appearing to represent the first leader of North Korea.