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July 17, 2019 North Korea

US hopes N.Korea talks go ahead despite Pyongyang threat

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The United States said Tuesday it hoped to hold denuclearization talks with North Korea, despite a warning from Pyongyang that US-South Korean military exercises could affect thei...

Iran urges Europe to take 'effective' steps to save nuclear deal

TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iran on Monday urged the European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal "to take practical, effective and responsible decisions" to save the landmark agreement. "We stress that the contin...

July 15, 2019
World News
Mall clashes at latest Hong Kong anti-extradition march

HONG KONG (AFP) - Riot police and protesters fought running battles in a Hong Kong shopping mall Sunday night as unrest caused by a widely loathed plan to allow extraditions to mainland China showed ...

July 15, 2019
World News
Australian student expelled from N. Korea denies spying

An Australian student who was expelled from North Korea denied on Tuesday that he had been spying on the authoritarian state while he lived there. Alek Sigley, 29, was released last week after being...

July 10, 2019
North Korea
South Korean defected to North after decades of stigmatisation: friends

A South Korean man who made a rare defection to North Korea was partly driven by the stigma and financial hardship that followed his parents' own high-profile flight to Pyongyang more than three deca...

July 9, 2019
North Korea
[Newsmaker] South Korean actress faces Thai jail for reality TV stunt

A South Korean actress faces up to five years in a Thai jail for catching endangered giant clams in a reality TV stunt, an official said Saturday, despite the show's extensive apology. Lee Yeol-eum ...

July 7, 2019
Social affairs
7.1-magnitude quake hits southern California: USGS

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit southern California on Friday at 8:19 pm (0319 GMT Saturday), the United States Geological Survey said. The latest quake is part of what geologists are calling an "ear...

July 6, 2019
World News
Disney live-action ‘Little Mermaid’ to star a black Ariel

R&B singer Halle Bailey is to play Ariel in a live-action version of “The Little Mermaid,” she said Wednesday, in a rare casting of a black actress as a Disney princess. Bailey, 19, who rose to fame...

July 4, 2019
Film
Outage hits Facebook services worldwide

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Facebook acknowledged Wednesday an outage affecting users in various parts of the world and said it was working on a fix. Online monitoring service DownDetector reported earli...

July 4, 2019
World News
North Korea says US ‘hell-bent’ on sanctions despite Trump-Kim meeting

North Korea complained on Wednesday after the United States sent a letter urging countries to send back North Korean workers as President Donald Trump was inviting Kim Jong Un to hold talks. The Nor...

July 4, 2019
North Korea
Japan says curbs on exports to S. Korea due to broken pledge

TOKYO (AP) -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan cannot give South Korean exports preferential treatment because the country is not abiding by an agreement regarding wartime issues that Japan insis...

July 3, 2019
Industry
South Americans marvel at total solar eclipse

A rare total solar eclipse plunged a vast swath of Latin America's southern cone into darkness Tuesday, briefly turning day into night and enthralling huge crowds in much of Chile and Argentina. (AF...

July 3, 2019
World News
Xi urged Trump to ease North Korea sanctions in 'timely' fashion

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged US President Donald Trump to "show flexibility" towards North Korea, including the "timely" easing of sanctions, at the G20 summit last week, China's foreign minist...

July 3, 2019
North Korea
[Breaking] DMZ 'closed to tourists' on N. Korean side: tour firm

The Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas was closed to tourists on the North's side on Sunday, a tour company said, amid speculation US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong -un would meet there....

June 30, 2019
North Korea
Trump on possible Kim encounter: 'He very much wants to'

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that Kim Jong-un "very much wants" to meet him, a day after inviting the North Korean leader to "say hello" in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula....

June 30, 2019
North Korea

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