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Over the past year or so, people who disapprove of President Moon Jae-in coined the term “Moonslam” and have used it to ridicule his supporters as “followers with blind faith.” Hong Joon-pyo speaks at the Liberty Korea Party’s event at the Ulsan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, South Gyeongsang Province, Monday. / Yonhap But knowing […]

ore than three-quarters of Yemenis are now in need of humanitarian aid as the war between rebels and the Saudi-backed government nears its fourth year, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Displaced Yemeni children sit outside a makeshift shelter exposing themselves to the sun light to try and keep them warm at a camp for […]

15 January – Somali refugee ZamZam Yusuf has a message for any neighbours who think she doesn’t have the right to call Leicester, in the English Midlands, home. ZamZam Yusuf at UN Headquarters in New York. Photo: UN News/Matt Wells “I would like to offer you a cup of tea” at my house, says the […]

Public records show the couple own the tract house where the children were found. Its address is also listed in a state Department of Education directory as the location of the Sandcastle Day School, a private K-12 campus. David Turpin is listed as the principal. During the last school year, the school was listed in […]

apanese media outlet NHK has apologized for issuing a false report of a North Korean missile launch Tuesday evening local time. An apology was issued on the Japanese language version of NHK’s website and later shared on its social media platforms. Get short URL FILE PHOTO Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) land-to-air missiles are deployed, with […]

A blaze destroyed a Paris bus on Tuesday and left plumes of black smoke rising over part of the city center. An investigation has been opened. Photo: Kenneth Maussang/Twitter The number 63 bus caught fire at around 9am on Rue des Ecles in the fifth arrondissement of the French capital, shortly after the driver had […]

North Korea on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump’s tweeted message that he has a bigger nuclear button than its leader Kim Jong-Un as the “spasm of a lunatic” and the “bark of a rabid dog”. North Korea’s official party newspaper on Tuesday dismissed Trump’s “swaggering” as nothing but the “spasm of a lunatic”. (AFP) Kim […]

Bangladesh has agreed to complete the process of returning Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar within two years after repatriation begins, the south Asian nation said on Tuesday, following a meeting of the neighbours to implement a pact signed last year.   © Munir Uz Zaman, AFP | Rohingya Muslim refugees wait for food aid at Thankhali […]

North Korea agreed Monday to send a 140-member orchestra to South Korea during next month’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics and hold concerts in Seoul and a sub-host city of the games. The North’s tentatively-named Samjiyon Orchestra will perform in the capital and Gangneung, 240 kilometers east of Seoul, South Korea’s unification ministry said after inter-Korean talks […]

he United States needs to adapt to the reality of an increasingly multipolar world and it has to stop its dictating policy toward other nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. Russian FM Sergei Lavrov (Reuters Photo) “Unfortunately, our American colleagues still want to operate only on the basis of a dictating policy, […]