Diplomatic Cross

AP — A Syria war monitoring group says an overnight missile attack in the country’s northern region has killed 26 pro-government fighters, The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the attack appears to have been carried out by Israel and targeted an arms depot for surface-to-surface missiles at a base in northern Syria known as Brigade 47. The Observatory says four Syrians were also among casualties. Earlier on Monday, Syrian TV reported a “new aggression,” with missiles targeting military outposts in northern Syria. The state-run television reported that the missiles targeted military outposts in the Hama and Aleppo countryside

(Rt) North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs have allowed it to secure strategic stability and peace, so there is no need for additional missile and nuclear tests anymore, Kim Jong-un has proclaimed. "From April 21, 2018, nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile tests will be discontinued,"  the Korean Central News Agency cited Kim as saying at a plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Worker's Party of Korea (WPK). Furthermore, since North Korea's nuclear test center has  "completed" its mission, it  "will be discarded in order to ensure the transparency of the nuclear test suspension,"  KCNA reported. Announcing the new course, the ruling party has declared that North Korea  "will never use nuclear weapons, unless there is nuclear threat or nuclear provocation to our country, and in no case we will proliferate nuclear weapons and nuclear technology." In the announcement, North K...