DigitalGlobe satelilte imaging on April 7 shows destroyed building in the southeastern part of the air base Shayrat, Syria after being attacked by US tomahawk missile.

Russia blocks U.N. Security Council condemnation of Syria attack

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, UNITED NATIONS -- Russia blocked a Western-led effort at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn last week's deadly gas attack in Syria and push Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad to cooperate with international inquiries into the incident. It was the eighth time during Syria's six-year-old civil war that Moscow has used its veto power on the Security...

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S. Korea military warns of 'stern punichment' for Pyongyang

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SEOUL -- South Korea's military warned North Korea on Wednesday to halt all "provocations", saying its reckless actions would only speed up the "collapse of its dictatorial system."The verbal volley comes a day after North Korea's military supreme command, angry over upcoming joint US-South Korean exercises, threatened to attack Seoul's presidential Blue House."We strongly urge North Korea to...