Seoul / AFP North Korea apparently failed with an attempted missile launch on Tuesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for a ballistic weapons programme that aspires to threaten the US mainland. South Korea’s defence ministry detected the dawn launch effort, which Japan condemned as an unacceptable and “provocative” act. The ministry declined to speculate on the missile ...

  LONDON Leaders of the campaign to end Britain’s membership in the European Union hope that next month’s referendum will make June 23, 2016, a date as luminous in modern British history as May 3, 1979, when voters made Margaret Thatcher prime minister. Michael Gove, secretary of justice and leader of the campaign for Brexit — Britain’s withdrawal from the ...

  Had the OPEC meeting been held two months ago, the agenda would have been different in light of plummeting oil prices that hurt many economies and caused volatility at the global markets. But with the current surge in the oil price to around $50, the pressure on OPEC is remarkably easing. This will be reflected at the meeting on ...