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Seoul: North Korea launches 2 short-range ballistic missiles
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2019
» SEOUL: South Korea's military said North Korea conducted its second weapons test in less than a week Wednesday, firing two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast in a move observers said could be aimed at boosting pressure on the United States as the rivals struggle to set up fresh nuclear talks.
Japan to resume commercial whaling, but not in Antarctic
Associated Press, Published on 26/12/2018
» TOKYO: Japan announced Wednesday it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunting of the cetaceans, but said it will no longer go to the Antarctic, where it has been heavily criticised for annual hunts harvesting hundreds of whales.
China demands Canada release Huawei executive
Associated Press, Published on 06/12/2018
» BEIJING: China on Thursday demanded Canada release a Huawei Technologies executive who was arrested in a case that adds to technology tensions with Washington and threatens to complicate trade talks.
Indonesian police say 32 dead, 1 missing in Papua attacks
Associated Press, Published on 04/12/2018
» JAYAPURA, Indonesia: Security forces tried to recover the bodies of 31 construction workers and a soldier who were killed in one of the worst separatist attacks in Indonesia's restive province of Papua, officials said Tuesday.
China defers lifting ban on trading tiger parts, rhino horn
Associated Press, Published on 13/11/2018
» BEIJING: China is postponing its decision to allow trading in tiger and rhinoceros parts a bare two weeks after the easing of the ban had raised fears the country was giving legal cover to poaching and smuggling of endangered wildlife.
China seizes Uighurs, abducts children as 'orphans'
Associated Press, Published on 24/09/2018
» ISTANBUL: Every morning, Meripet wakes up to her nightmare: The Chinese government has turned four of her children into orphans, even though she and their father are alive.
Ex-S.Korean premier Kim Jong-pil, spy agency founder, dies
Associated Press, Published on 23/06/2018
» SEOUL: Kim Jong-pil, the founder of South Korea's spy agency whose political skills helped him also serve twice as prime minister, first under his dictator boss and later under a man his agency kidnapped, has died. He was 92.
Trump announces halt to US-S.Korea war games
Associated Press, Published on 12/06/2018
» SINGAPORE: President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un concluded an extraordinary nuclear summit Tuesday with the US president pledging unspecified “security guarantees” to the North and Kim recommitting to the “complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.”
UN health agency aims to wipe out trans fats worldwide
Associated Press, Published on 14/05/2018
» NEW YORK: The World Health Organization has released a plan to help countries wipe out trans fats from the global food supply in the next five years.
Pompeo off to Pyongyang to finalise summit plans
Associated Press, Published on 09/05/2018
» YOKOTA AIR BASE, JAPAN: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was heading to North Korea on Tuesday to finalise details of a planned historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un.