President Trump has welcomed the imposition of tighten sanctions on North Korea by the UN security council, drafted by Washington to punish last month missile test. They slashed Pyongyang’s permitted oil imports by about 90 percent.
A former US marine has been arrested in San Francisco suspected of involvement in plotting a Christmas terror attack on a pier that's popular with tourists. Everitt Jameson is said to reveal his plans to a undercovered FBI agent, and he believed to be a leading figure from so-called Islamic State.
British members of the medical volunteer organisation are appealing for 7 children with treatable cancer to be helped to leave a rebel-held district in Syria. They say the children will die unless evacuated from eastern G which is under government bombardment. About 400,000 people there face starvation in freezing temperatures.
Poland's Chief Justice x has accused the right-wing government of lauching a coup against the judiciary. She said that in acting new juridical reforms, the authorities are violating the common good, calling this illegal and immoral.
It appears that the crisis in Catalonia's still has a long to run after polarizing election in the Spanish region. Speaking from his self-imposed exile, the separatist leader Charles Puigdemont has called for talks with Spanish Prime Minister to take place outside Spain.
A tropical storm has caused the death of at least 30 people in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Many more are missing. Last week, another tropical storm caused widespread destruction in central Philippine islands.
A black trufflehas been found in a hotel roof garden in central Paris. French experts say it's the first time the expensive aromatic fungus has been found in the capital. Chefs sliced to use the winter black truffle with scallops, sausage, or potatoes.