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KOREA South Korea halted anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts across their tense border yesterday as officials from the two Koreas met again to work out details of their

The Buzz | Eurozone interest rates could stay frozen well into 2019

Weaker signals from the economy and worries about a possible trade war between the United State and China have left the top monetary authority for the 19 countries

Nicaragua | Ortega agrees to talk as deadly protests rage on

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Saturday that his government is willing to enter into talks over social security reforms that have sparked four days of protests

France | Tourists at iconic abbey evacuated after threat

French authorities evacuated tourists from the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey and were searching houses yesterday on the famed outcropping in the English Channel for a visitor who apparently threatened

Greece | Centeno says sides closer as creditors mull debt relief

Greece’s creditors are getting closer on a deal to ease the country’s debt burden, according to Eurogroup President Mario Centeno. Greece’s 86-billion euro (USD106-billion) bailout program

Heritage | Archaeologists find bust of Roman emperor in Egypt

Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the southern city of Aswan. The Antiquities Ministry says Sunday the head

Offbeat | Mugabe summoned over alleged diamond looting

A Zimbabwean parliamentary committee is summoning former leader Robert Mugabe to explain past comments on alleged diamond looting — the first time a public institution has called

This Day in History | 1998 – Martin Luther King killer dies

James Earl Ray, the convicted killer of the black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died, aged 70, still protesting his innocence. Officials in

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SOUTH CHINA SEA Australia’s prime minister said his country has a “perfect right” to traverse the South China Sea after a media report said that the Chinese navy

Islamic State suicide bomber kills 57 in Afghan capital

An Islamic State suicide bomber carried out an attack at a voter registration center in the capital Kabul on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding more than 100

Cuba | Diaz-Canel receives Maduro in first act as president

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro Saturday in his first official act as the country’s leader. Maduro is the first president

Cuba | Bureaucrat Diaz-Canel replaces Raul Castro as president

A 57-year-old bureaucrat will take Raul Castro’s place as the president of Cuba today as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure

USA | Trump says he’ll sanction Russia as soon as they deserve it

President Donald Trump said that nobody has been tougher on Russia than him and that he’ll hit Moscow with new sanctions “as soon as they very much

Offbeat | Australian bank charges dead client service fee for a decade

Financial advisers working for Australia’s largest bank continued charging clients service fees after they died — in one case for more than a decade — a government inquiry

The Buzz | Karl Lagerfeld calls models ‘sordid creatures’

An organization that protects the rights of models has called for action against outspoken fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld was quoted by a French magazine as calling models “stupid,”

Nepal honors first conquest of Everest without bottled oxygen

Nepal’s government yesterday honored two climbers who were the first to scale Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen 40 years ago. Minister for Tourism Rabindra Adhikari praised

Southwest Airlines pilot lauded as hero for handling crisis

The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet’s damaged fuselage is

Israel at 70 | Satisfaction and grim disquiet share the stage

Is Israel a success as it turns 70? As Israelis commemorate the milestone this week, satisfaction and a grim disquiet share the stage. It has

Saudi Arabia | Authorities to show ‘Black Panther’ to mark cinema opening

Saudi Arabia is to hold a private screening of the Hollywood blockbuster “Black Panther” to herald the launch of movie theaters in the kingdom that are expected

Offbeat | Headless doll triggers major police operation in Germany

An apparent headless body that prompted a major police operation in southern Germany has turned out to be a doll. Police in Baden-Wuerttemberg state say a

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