
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a number of states was playing into hands of terrorists by using force, bypassing the United Nations Security Council. “Such actions give rise to the political and social instability, play into hands of terrorism, extremism and the international criminality, lead to the escalation ...

North Korea condemned US criticism of its human rights record as “ridiculous”, days before leader Kim Jong Un’s summit with the South and ahead of a meeting with US President Donald Trump. The US State Department’s rights report on the North, released last week, described “egregious human rights violations” in ...