Russia’s president is visiting Japan to discuss signing a peace treaty and expanding economic cooperation. However, a decades-old territorial dispute and Japan’s support for the Obama administration’s anti-Russian sanctions may stand in the way. Vladimir Putin has arrived in Japan on Thursday to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The ...
The UN’s cultural agency called for emergency measures on Thursday to prevent further looting at the historic Iraqi city of Nimrud which has been wrecked by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group. Nimrud, founded in the 13th century BC on the Tigris river about ...
