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As ties thaw, South Korea faces dilemma over anti-north leaflet

As ties thaw, South Korea faces dilemma over anti-north leaflet

-- 2018-05-06 18:10:21

Days after a historic inter-Korean summit Lee Min-bok, a defector who has been flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North for 15 years, received a call from an official at Seoul's Unification Minis...

Turkey vows to respond if US halts arms sales

Turkey vows to respond if US halts arms sales

-- 2018-05-06 15:16:38

Turkey will retaliate if the United States enacts a proposed law that would halt weapons sales to the country, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday. Lawmakers in the US House of Represent...

Trump speaks with Britain's May on Iran, North Korea

Trump speaks with Britain's May on Iran, North Korea

-- 2018-05-06 14:54:04

US President Donald Trump spoke with Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday on issues including the Iran nuclear deal, a week before the president is to decide whether Washington will...

ADBI sessions on financial inclusion begin on May 11

ADBI sessions on financial inclusion begin on May 11

FE Online Desk 2018-05-06 13:48:25

A two-day long ADBI Sessions on Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, and Infrastructure Development on Asia and the Pacific Economies begin on May 11 at Suzhou, PRC. The sessions will disseminate...

‘Iran is ready to resist any Trump decision on Nuke deal’

‘Iran is ready to resist any Trump decision on Nuke deal’

-- 2018-05-06 13:47:33

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said Iran has plans to respond to any move by US President Donald Trump on the 2015 nuclear agreement and the United States would regret a decision to exit the acc...

10 Cambodians die drinking contaminated water; 120 ill

10 Cambodians die drinking contaminated water; 120 ill

-- 2018-05-06 12:19:33

A health official says 10 Cambodian villagers have died and 120 others are sickened after drinking water suspected to be contaminated with insecticide. The head of the Kratie Provincial Health Depart...

Trump’s gun speech sparks fury in France, Britain

Trump’s gun speech sparks fury in France, Britain

-- 2018-05-06 11:36:30

US President Donald Trump sparked anger in France and Britain by suggesting looser gun laws could have helped prevent deadly attacks in Paris in 2015, and linking a wave of knife crime in London to a...

Lebanon heads to polls after nine years

Lebanon heads to polls after nine years

-- 2018-05-06 10:36:52

Polling booths opened in Lebanon on Sunday for the country’s first parliamentary election in nine years, a period marked by stretches of political paralysis and war in neighbouring Syria. Votin...

16 die in Pakistan coalmine blast

16 die in Pakistan coalmine blast

-- 2018-05-06 10:29:14

At least 16 miners have been killed and more than a dozen others remained trapped after an explosion in a coalmine in southwest Pakistan, officials said. Saturday's blast in the Marwar coalfields in...

Brazil tour bus crash claims nine lives

Brazil tour bus crash claims nine lives

-- 2018-05-06 10:23:16

A head-on collision between a tour bus and a car left at least nine people dead in Brazil’s southern Parana state on early Saturday, said highway police. The accident occurred around dawn when...

US revives Second Fleet to face ‘assertive’ Russia

US revives Second Fleet to face ‘assertive’ Russia

-- 2018-05-05 17:56:43

The US Navy has said it will re-establish its Second Fleet, as Russia becomes more assertive. Chief of Naval Operations Adm John Richardson said the fleet, disbanded in 2011, would oversee forces on...

UAE forces occupy Yemen's Socotra island

UAE forces occupy Yemen's Socotra island

-- 2018-05-05 17:26:03

United Arab Emirates (UAE) forces have occupied sea and airports on Yemen's remote island of Socotra, a day after deploying four military craft and more than 100 troops there. UAE soldiers also block...

Ex-UK MP sues Met Police over false child abuse claims

Ex-UK MP sues Met Police over false child abuse claims

-- 2018-05-05 13:20:32

A former British Conservative Member of Parliament is claiming £1million in damages from the Metropolitan Police after being falsely accused of child sexual abuse and murder. Harvey Proctor is...

US troops ‘helping’ Saudis fight Yemen rebels

US troops ‘helping’ Saudis fight Yemen rebels

Al Jazeera 2018-05-05 12:32:12

The US deployed a team of Special Forces soldiers to Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen to help locate and destroy caches of ballistic missiles used by Houthi rebels to attack the Saudi capital, R...

Three die in armed clash with Taliban in Afghanistan

Three die in armed clash with Taliban in Afghanistan

-- 2018-05-05 12:24:49

At least three members of pro-government local militia were killed and two others injured after Taliban laid an ambush attack in northern Afghan province of Badakhshan Friday night, police said. "The...

Mnangagwa calls for party unity to ensure ‘thunderous’ win

Mnangagwa calls for party unity to ensure ‘thunderous’ win

-- 2018-05-05 11:05:17

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged his party to unite after disputed internal polls, saying this will ensure a ‘thunderous’ win in elections set for July, which would allow a ZANU...

Trump ends temporary protections for Hondurans

Trump ends temporary protections for Hondurans

-- 2018-05-05 10:19:43

The Trump administration has announced the end of temporary protections for thousands of Honduran immigrants. Up to 57,000 people could be forced to leave the US by 5 January 2020, when their tempora...

North Korea matches time with South

North Korea matches time with South

BBC 2018-05-05 10:19:39

North Korea has changed time zone to match the South after last week's inter-Korean summit, according to state media. At 23:30 local time (15:00 GMT) on Friday the country's clocks moved forward 30 m...

Suu Kyi fails to protect press freedom: Survey

Suu Kyi fails to protect press freedom: Survey

-- 2018-05-04 22:24:35

Journalists in Myanmar believe their government is failing to defend media freedom despite the transition from harsh military rule to an elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a survey p...

Trump orders Pentagon to cut US troops in S Korea

Trump orders Pentagon to cut US troops in S Korea

-- 2018-05-04 22:22:57

US President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prepare options for reducing the number of US troops in South Korea, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing several people briefed on the...

May avoids London wipeout in local polls

May avoids London wipeout in local polls

-- 2018-05-04 22:20:54

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party avoided a wipeout in London local elections and eked out gains in Brexit-supporting regions elsewhere, results on Friday showed, denting the opp...

Date, place for North Korea meeting set: Trump  

Date, place for North Korea meeting set: Trump  

-- 2018-05-04 20:53:25

US President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters that the date and location were set for a meeting with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, which would be announced soon. The White House has sa...

German teens launches petition to condemn ‘unfair’ English exam

German teens launches petition to condemn ‘unfair’ English exam

-- 2018-05-04 20:30:37

Grappling with the Statue of Liberty and Brexit in one English exam proved too much for more than 30,000 German school students, who are protesting in an online petition. They say the texts they had...

Hawaii declares state of emergency over volcano eruption

Hawaii declares state of emergency over volcano eruption

-- 2018-05-04 17:58:23

Mount Kilauea volcano on Friday has erupted near a residential area on Hawaii's largest island, prompting a local state of emergency and the mandatory evacuation of 1,700 residents. Extremely high le...

US warns China of consequences for militarising South China Sea

US warns China of consequences for militarising South China Sea

-- 2018-05-04 17:11:09

The United States had raised concerns with China about its latest militarisation of the South China Sea (SCS) and there would be near-term and long-term consequences, the White House said on Thursday....

Sticking with Marxism ‘totally correct’: Xi

Sticking with Marxism ‘totally correct’: Xi

-- 2018-05-04 16:49:30

The decision of China's ruling Communist Party to stick with the political theories of Karl Marx remains ‘totally correct’, President Xi Jinping said ahead of the 200th anniversary of the...

Swedish Academy suspends Nobel Prize for literature this year

Swedish Academy suspends Nobel Prize for literature this year

-- 2018-05-04 13:51:03

The organisation that decides the Nobel Prize for Literature has said it will not announce an award this year, after it was engulfed in a scandal over sexual assault allegations. The Swedish Academy...

India braces for more storms as toll mounts to 125

India braces for more storms as toll mounts to 125

-- 2018-05-04 11:59:19

At least 125 people are now reported to have died in fierce dust storms in northern India, with officials warning of more bad weather to come. High-speed winds and lightning have devastated many vill...

UK PM May avoids London wipeout in local elections

UK PM May avoids London wipeout in local elections

Reuters 2018-05-04 10:49:42

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party avoided a wipeout in London local elections and eked out gains in Brexit-supporting regions elsewhere, early results on Friday showed, although he...

What could Iran do if nuclear deal fails?

What could Iran do if nuclear deal fails?

Reuters 2018-05-04 10:17:11

President Donald Trump is expected to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement on May 12. Tehran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with China, France, Germany, Russia, Bri...