Bloomberg North Korea accused the US of pressuring South Korea to follow a policy of implementing sanctions against the regime, its state media reported. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report said there was a “serious situation of tension being created” on the peninsula amid halted denuclearisation talks with the US. The report was a commentary from the Committee for ...

Bloomberg Maria Butina, the self-styled Russian gun-rights activist who befriended senior officials from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Republican party in the run-up to the 2016 election, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for failing to register in the US as an agent of a foreign government. Butina told US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington that ...

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin said he may extend an offer of citizenship to cover all Ukrainians after he sparked controversy by ordering passports to be made available to people in areas of the country controlled by pro-Moscow separatists. Russia’s offer of citizenship is “not only to the people who live” in the rebel-held areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and ...