A man who said he was armed with a grenade Friday hijacked a Libyan plane which landed on the Mediterranean island of Malta with 118 people on board, Malta's prime minister and government sources said.The Airbus A320 had been on a domestic Libyan route operated by Afriqiyah Airways from Sabha in the south to the capital Tripoli but was re-routed."The Afriqiyah flight from Sabha to Tripoli has been diverted and has landed in Malta. Security services coordinating operations," Maltese Prime Ministe

The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan, ending a Europe-wide manhunt, Italy's interior minister said.Checks conducted after the shootout showed "the person killed, without a shadow of a doubt, is Anis Amri, the suspect of the terrorist attack,'' Interior Minister Marco Minniti said.The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Monday attack in Berlin, which killed 12 and injured 5

North Korea may seek to hold dialogue with the United States sometime one year after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a lawmaker said Friday, citing remarks by a high-profile North Korean defector.Thae Yong-ho, who defected to South Korea in July after serving as a ranking diplomat, made the comment at a parliamentary committee earlier in the day, where he explained the reasons for his defection and life under the country's leader Kim Jong-un.The North's leader wants his country t

South Korea's Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Friday assured Britain's visiting Finance Minister Philip Hammond that there will be no marked change in policy.The remarks were made during a meeting between Hwang and the British Chancellor who visited South Korea for one day to meet with top South Korean government officials on a host of bilateral and economic issues."There is no policy adjustment from our government, and state affairs are operated normally and steadily," Hwan

The U.N. General Assembly is scheduled to adopt a North Korean human rights resolution next week that calls for referring the situation to the International Criminal Court and expresses serious concerns about Pyongyang's labor exports, Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday.The resolution, which was adopted by a third committee under the assembly last month, will be adopted at a plenary General Assembly meeting slated for Monday (local time), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said."The North Korean

South Korea and Japan on Friday directly exchanged classified information on North Korea's nuclear and missile programs for the first time in line with their intelligence-sharing pact which came into force last month, the defense ministry said. Defense ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told reporters that the exchange was made during a meeting between the two countries'senior defense officials held in Seoul in conjunction with a three-way security dialogue which also includes the United States.