Korean leaders aim for end of war, ‘complete denuclearization’ after historic summit
SEOUL (Reuters) – The leaders of North and South Korea embraced on Friday and pledged to work for the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” on a day of smiles and handshakes at the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.
Acting Armenian PM rejects talks with opposition leader, protests persist
YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenia’s acting prime minister, Karen Karapetyan, rejected a proposal by opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan to hold talks on Friday to defuse a political crisis engulfing the small south Caucasus nation.
Romania’s president calls on PM to quit over Israel embassy move
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s president called on the prime minister to resign on Friday after she endorsed a secret deal to move the country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, overstepping her powers on foreign policy.
Hours into the job, Pompeo in Brussels for show of support for NATO
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Barely 12 hours after being sworn in U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went straight to NATO headquarters on Friday in what European allies saw as strong support for an institution that U.S. President Donald Trump once called obs…
Korean leaders aim for end of war, ‘complete denuclearisation’ after historic summit
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embraced after pledging on Friday to work for the “complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula,” punctuating a day of smiles and handshakes at the first inte…
India’s Modi gets museum tour with Xi as China trip begins
WUHAN, China (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got a personal tour of a museum with President Xi Jinping on Friday as he began an ice-breaking visit to China in which the giant neighbours will seek to re-set troubled ties.
China makes defaming revolutionary heroes punishable by law
BEIJING (Reuters) – China introduced a law on Friday making it potentially criminal to defame or deny the deeds and spirit of the country’s historic martyrs, state media said, the latest move to protect symbols of state.
Foreign ministers of Russia and Azerbaijan discuss Nagorno-Karabakh
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the settlement of the Azeri-Armenian conflict around Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region with his Azeri counterpart in a phone call on Friday, Russia’s foreign ministry said…
U.N. rights chief decries Israel’s excessive use of force in Gaza
GENEVA (Reuters) – Israel must stop the excessive use of force by its security forces along the Gaza border and must hold to account those responsible for the many deaths and injuries sustained by Palestinians in the past month, the U.N. human rights c…
Japan docks top finance bureaucrat’s pay for sexual harassment
Tokyo (Reuters) – Japan’s finance ministry said on Friday it would dock the pay of its top finance bureaucrat for sexual harassment and apologized for betraying public trust in a scandal that has further damaged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ratings.
