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China says North Korea tension has to be stopped from reaching 'irreversible' stage
By Dominique Patton and Sue-Lin Wong BEIJING/PYONGYANG (Reuters) - China said on Friday tension over North Korea had to be stopped from reaching an "irreversible and unmanageable stage" as a U.S. aircraft carrier group steamed toward the region amid fears the North may conduct a sixth nuclear weapons test. Concern has grown since the U.S. Navy fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield last week in response to a deadly gas attack, raising questions about U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for North Korea, which has conducted missile and nuclear tests in defiance of U.N. and unilateral sanctions. The United States has warned that a policy of "strategic patience" is over.
Trump’s Tweets About North Korea Are Making Bad Matters Worse
The best option is a combination of further sanctions and intense, boring, frustrating diplomacy.
President Trump praises dropping ‘mother of all bombs’ in Afghanistan
President Trump praised the military that dropped the “mother of all bombs” on an ISIS target in Afghanistan — the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal. The bomb was created and tested in 2003, but was never used until now.
U.S. unleashes 'mother of all bombs' for first time in Afghanistan
By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States dropped "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear device it has ever unleashed in combat, on a network of caves and tunnels used by Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the military said. President Donald Trump touted the bombing as evidence of a more muscular U.S. foreign policy since he took office in January after eight years of President Barack Obama.
Mexico to extradite accused gunman to U.S. for 'Fast and Furious' slaying
Mexico's government said on Thursday it planned to extradite the man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a case tied to the U.S. government's ill-fated "Fast and Furious" gun-running sting. Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes was arrested on Wednesday on the border of the northern Mexican states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua for the shooting of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, according to the U.S. Marshal for Arizona. Identifying the suspect only as Heraclio "N", the Mexican attorney general's office said in a statement that following his capture by Mexican marines, steps were underway to initiate the process of his extradition to the United States.
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