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2 South Koreans found dead near Hawaii beach: foreign ministry

Aug 5, 2018

South 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 talks

Aug 3, 2018

Chinese 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 talks

Aug 2, 2018

China’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 kidnapped

Aug 2, 2018

Seoul 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 Korea

Aug 2, 2018

WASHINGTON -- 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 defection

Jul 29, 2018

South 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 forces

Jul 19, 2018

YAOUNDE, 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 gunbattle

Jul 19, 2018

PATNA, 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 Facebook

Jul 19, 2018

NEW 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 law

Jul 19, 2018

JERUSALEM (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’ dies

Jul 2, 2018

Another 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 counterpart

Jun 30, 2018

WASHINGTON (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 nominee

Jun 29, 2018

GENEVA, 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 Vatican

Jun 26, 2018

VATICAN 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, landslides

Jun 26, 2018

HANOI (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...