North Korea

North Korea said on Monday it would put two U.S. tourists on trial for committing crimes against the state, dimming any hopes among their families that they would soon be released.
   

North Korea has fired 2 short-range missiles off the eastern coast of the peninsula, a South Korean official has stated.

Perhaps there is a hidden message behind Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s boringly repetitive message that “Turkey will be among the world’s top 10 countries by 2023.” Presently, there are only nine countries in the world that possess nuclear weapons.

Pope Francis announced during his address from the Vatican on Sunday that he will visit Albania on September 21 – his first trip as pontiff to a European country.

The Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism has warned its members against financial transactions with people and institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) because the country has not adopted anti-money laundering and terrorism financing legislation.

The Bosnian parliament's House of Peoples adopted an anti-money laundering law on June 6, bowing to European Union pressure to do so.

But the necessary changes to the country's criminal law have still not won the support of Serbian MPs, who say the matter should be left to the country's two entities.

The Council of Europe's expert committee on money-laundering issues, Moneyval, warned on Sunday that financial institutions should take precautions when conducting financial transactions with Bosnia.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has replaced its "number top" cadre in political hierarchy, Choe Ryong-hae.

In a report on May Day events by North Korea's mouthpiece KCNA it was revealed that Hwang Pyong-so would be the new military politburo chief, according to The South China Morning Post.

North Korea is preparing a nuclear test in the coming days, a South Korean government official has warned.

According to the anonymous official cited by CNN, the entrance to North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site was sealed, a sign of completed preparation for a nuclear test.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has warned of a "very grave" situation on the Korean peninsula, quoted by North Korea's official KCNA agency. 

Earlier this week South and North Korea exchanged artillery fire across the sea  border and Kim threatened a new nuclear test.