Kang Sok-ju, Key Nuclear Negotiator for North Korea, Dies at 76 and other top stories.

• Kang Sok-ju, Key Nuclear Negotiator for North Korea, Dies at 76

  Photo Kang Sok-ju, a top North Korean foreign policy aide, in an undated photo. Credit Korea Central News Agency Kang Sok-ju, a key architect of North Korea’s nuclear diplomacy who haggled with United States negotiators, once by quoting from a favorite American book, died on Friday. He was 76.The cause was esophageal cancer, the North Korean government said in a statement. The statement did not say where he had died.Mr. Kang had been absent from state functions since la..

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• Analysis: No easy victories in battle to liberate Falluja from ISIS

  

  But how long it will take to reach that moment is difficult to say. ISIS has proven to be a formidable foe, and every victory over the group has come at a high cost. To paraphrase that classic line attributed by war correspondent Peter Arnett to an American officer in the Vietnam War: To save cities from ISIS, Iraqi forces have had to destroy them. The Iraqi air force has dropped thousands of leaflets over Falluja urging civilians to leave, but ISIS is reportedly preventing them from doing so. T..

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• EgyptAir Crash: Safety Experts Voice Fears Over Flight 804 Evidence

  

  Aviation-safety experts are voicing concerns that Egypt may be mishandling debris collected from the downed EgyptAir plane, potentially compromising evidence that could help determine why the Airbus Group SE A320 crashed. Forensic and chemical analysis of aircraft wreckage can yield vital information for investigators to glean how and why a plane went down. Such findings are particularly crucial when investigators lack access to a...

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• Poll: 61% Percent Concerned about Trump's Experience

  

  Donald Trump has highlighted his credentials as an outsider throughout his 2016 campaign, but six-in-ten American voters say they're unsure about his lack of military or government experience, a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll shows. And more than 40 percent say they're very uncomfortable about the holes in his resume, which would make him the first president without a record of military or elected public service. Asked in the new survey about Trump's experience, only fiv..

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• Scores Killed as IS Bombs Hit Syrian Government Strongholds

  

  BEIRUT — A series of coordinated blasts hit bus stations, an electricity plant and a hospital across two Syrian cities Monday, killing at least 80 people in the first major security breach of President Bashar Assad's coastal strongholds in the country's five-year war.The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on social media. The militants are not known to maintain a presence in the surrounding countryside, an area in which mainstream rebels and al-Qaida affiliated insurgent..

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• Brazil Interim Gov't Under Fire in Wake of Leaked Recording

  

  Brazil's interim government came under fire Monday as a secret recording emerged of the new planning minister discussing a purported pact to push for President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment to stall a huge corruption probe that has engulfed much of the nation's political class. Even some allies of acting President Michel Temer called for the firing or resignation of Planning Minister Romero Juca, also a senator who is under investigation in the multibillion-dollar kickback scheme at state oil..

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