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2 South Koreans found dead near Hawaii beach: foreign ministryAug 5, 2018South Korea's foreign ministry said Sunday that it has been providing consular assistance needed to handle the deaths of two South Koreans, whose bodies were found near a Hawaiian beach last week. A... -
China urges S. Korea to resolve THAAD issue in ministerial talksAug 3, 2018Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi asked South Korea on Friday to resolve the issue of an advanced US missile defense system deployed on the peninsula. Wang made the request in bilateral talks with hi... -
China calls draft pact on sea feud a ‘breakthrough’ in talksAug 2, 2018China’s top diplomat said Thursday that an initial draft of a proposed pact with Southeast Asia aimed at preventing fighting in the disputed South China Sea was a “breakthrough” in talks that can pro... -
Seoul deploys warship to Libya after S. Korean, Filipinos kidnappedAug 2, 2018Seoul said Thursday it had deployed a warship to Libya in an apparent show of force to secure the release of a South Korean national kidnapped along with three Filipinos in the North African country.... -
Two US senators to co-chair study group on KoreaAug 2, 2018WASHINGTON -- Two bipartisan United States senators have been chosen to co-chair a congressional study group on Korea, becoming the first members of the Senate to join the body. Sens. Brian Schatz a... -
State human rights watchdog to investigate NK restaurant workers’ 2016 defectionJul 29, 2018South Korea’s human rights watchdog said Sunday it plans to conduct a probe into a group defection by North Korean restaurant workers in 2016 amid allegations that some of them were duped into coming... -
China donates 7m euros to Cameroon's security forcesJul 19, 2018YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AFP) -- China has donated 6.86 million euros ($7.95 million) to Cameroon‘s army to boost its “peacekeeping and security operations”, state radio reported Thursday. The donation w... -
Indian forces kill 8 Maoist insurgents in forest gunbattleJul 19, 2018PATNA, India (AP) -- Security forces killed eight Maoist insurgents, including four women, in an exchange of gunfire early Thursday in their stronghold in central India, a police officer said. T... -
Zuckerberg: Holocaust deniers won‘t be banned from FacebookJul 19, 2018NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says while he finds Holocaust denial “deeply offensive,” he doesn‘t believe that such content should be banned from Facebook. Speaking with Recode’s Ka... -
Israel adopts controversial Jewish nation-state lawJul 19, 2018JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israel‘s parliament on Thursday adopted a law defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people, provoking fears it could lead to blatant discrimination against Arab ci... -
Another former ‘comfort woman’ diesJul 2, 2018Another elderly Korean victim of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died, the Ministry of Gender Equality announced Sunday. The death of Kim Bok-deuk, 99, puts the number of known surviving victims... -
Pompeo discusses enforcement of NK sanctions with Chinese counterpartJun 30, 2018WASHINGTON (Yonhap) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday discussed the importance of fully implementing sanctions on North Korea in a phone call with his Chinese counterpart. US Secretary o... -
UN migration agency rejects Trump nomineeJun 29, 2018GENEVA, June 29, 2018 (AFP) - Member states of the United Nations migration agency on Friday rejected President Donald Trump‘s nominee for director general, repudiating historic American control of t... -
Pope receives French president Macron at the VaticanJun 26, 2018VATICAN CITY (AFP) -- French President Emmanuel Macron made his first official visit to the Vatican on Tuesday where he held an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis. The tete-a-tete between the... -
15 dead in Vietnam flash floods, landslidesJun 26, 2018HANOI (AFP) -- Flash floods and landslides killed 15 people in Vietnam‘s mountainous north, officials said Tuesday, after storms ravaged homes and wiped out crops and infrastructure. At least 12 pe...
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