Palmyra / AFP Syrian troops backed by Russian ground and air forces on Saturday pushed deeper into the IS group stronghold of Palmyra, as Washington considered boosting its anti-extremist fight in neighbouring Iraq. IS, behind a string of attacks in the West including this week’s Brussels bombings, is under growing pressure from Syrian and Iraqi military offensives to retake two …

Athens / afp Greece has begun evacuating migrants from the main Idomeni camp on the Macedonia border, while the flow of refugees arriving on Aegean islands has slowed to a trickle, officials said on Saturday. Eight buses transported around 400 refugees from Idomeni to nearby refugee camps Friday, local police sources said. A dozen more buses were waiting for migrants …

Seoul / AFP North Korea released a new propaganda video on Saturday menacingly titled “Last Chance”, showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames. The four-minute video romps through the history of US-Korean relations and ends with a digitally manipulated sequence showing a missile surging through clouds, swerving back to the …