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Japan not budging on flag dispute: Korean ministry

The Japanese government is maintaining its plan to fly the controversial Rising Sun flag during an upcoming navy event in South Korea, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday. Japan's Self-Defense For...

Oct 2, 2018
International
Japan woman held over keeping baby body in locker ‘for years’

TOKYO (AFP) -- Tokyo police said Tuesday they had arrested a 49-year-old woman suspected of dumping a stillborn baby‘s body in a coin locker, amid reports she had moved the corpse around for as many ...

Sept 25, 2018
International
China says can‘t hold US trade talks with ’knife to the throat‘

BEIJING (AFP) -- China said on Tuesday it was impossible to hold trade talks with the United States while Washington is imposing tariffs that are like “holding a knife to someone‘s throat”. Speakin...

Sept 25, 2018
International
Instagram co-founders resigning: report

SAN FRANCISCO, (AFP) -- Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are leaving the smartphone photo-sharing service bought by Facebook six years ago for a billion dollars, the New York Time...

Sept 25, 2018
International
After North Korea, Trump targets Iran with ‘maximum pressure’

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) -- One year after mobilizing the international community against North Korea, Donald Trump is trying to force another arch enemy to the negotiating table by targeting Iran with a...

Sept 25, 2018
International
EU announces legal entity to maintain business with Iran

The European Union said Monday it would set up a legal entity to preserve oil and other business with Iran, in a bid to evade US sanctions after President Donald Trump withdrew from a nuclear agreeme...

Sept 25, 2018
International
Two confirmed deaths in Philippines super typhoon: police

MANILA (AFP) -- Two women were killed Saturday in a landslide set off by Super Typhoon Mangkhut, Philippine police said, the first reported deaths in the massive storm. A man is hit by a wave while ...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Scientists: World’s warming; expect more intense hurricanes

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A warmer world makes for nastier hurricanes. Scientists say they are wetter, possess more energy and intensify faster. Their storm surges are more destructive because climate chan...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Pope in Sicily to honour priest killed by mafia

PALERMO, Italy (AFP) -- Pope Francis visits the Italian island of Sicily on Saturday to pay homage to a priest murdered by the mafia 25 years ago after trying to save youngsters in poor neighbourhood...

Sept 15, 2018
International
US calls UN meeting on undermining North Korea sanctions

The United States has called an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council for Monday in response to what it says are efforts by some countries “to undermine and obstruct” sanctions against North Ko...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Ex-UN climate chief faces trial in India for sexual offenses

An Indian court ruled there is enough evidence to send India‘s former U.N. climate chief Rajendra Pachauri to trial on charges of stalking and sexual harassment in a case filed by a former female col...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Ferocious typhoon plows through rain-soaked Philippines

Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines‘ northeastern coast early Saturday, its ferocious winds and blinding rain ripping off tin roof sheets and knocking out power, and plowed through the agri...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Hundreds of firefighters to head to Utah to fight wildfire

PANISH FORK, Utah (AP) -- A raging Utah wildfire driven by high winds in dry terrain has the potential to decimate hundreds of homes if firefighters cannot get a handle on it in the next couple of da...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Korean tourist found dead on Indonesian island

A South Korean tourist who had went snorkeling near Indonesia’s Lombok Island was found dead on the beach of the outlying Gili Trawangan Island. Another Korean tourist is missing. According to local...

Sept 13, 2018
International
Cheong Wa Dae downplays new book’s claims on FTA friction

Seoul’s presidential office on Wednesday declined to comment on claims regarding the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement and US military presence here, made in Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the ...

Sept 12, 2018
International

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