South Korea approves aid to North Korea, North calls Trump ‘barking dog’
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea approved a plan on Thursday to send $8 million worth of aid to North Korea, as China warned the crisis on the Korean peninsula was getting more serious by the day and the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington conti…
Iraq launches offensive on Hawija, an Islamic State-held region near oil city Kirkuk
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq launched an offensive on Thursday to dislodge Islamic State from Hawija, an area located west of the oil city of Kirkuk.
China top graft buster says corruption fight ‘world class hard’
BEIJING (Reuters) – Fixing the corruption problem in China’s ruling Communist Party is “world class hard” and the battle will never end, the country’s top graft-buster told Singapore’s prime minister in a rare meeting with a visiting foreign leader.
North Korea’s foreign minister calls Trump’s U.N. address ‘sound of dog barking’
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho called U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations “the sound of a dog barking”, brushing aside Trump’s remarks that the United States may be forced to “totally destroy” North K…
Myanmar says security forces told to avoid collateral damage in Rakhine
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Myanmar’s vice president told the United Nations on Wednesday that security forces in his country’s Rakhine State, from which hundreds of thousands of people have recently fled, have been instructed to take “full measures” to…
U.S. weighs whether to stay in Iran nuclear deal
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday it is weighing whether the Iranian nuclear deal serves its security interests even as Iran said it did not expect Washington to abandon the agreement.
Islamists lure youngsters in the Philippines with payments, promise of paradise
MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – When he saw his commander holding the severed head of one of his neighbors, teenage Islamist fighter Jalil knew it was time to escape from Marawi City.
Lost luggage: “Mischievous” Singapore handler sent bags astray at world’s best airport
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A man who worked as a baggage handler at Singapore’s Changi Airport swapped tags on hundreds of bags, sending the luggage to the wrong destinations, the Straits Times newspaper reported.
Mexico rescuers work into night to save trapped girl as quake toll tops 230
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican rescuers on Wednesday labored for a second night amid the rubble to save possible survivors of the country’s most lethal earthquake in a generation, including a girl trapped under a school in Mexico City, as the death to…
Myanmar says security forces told to avoid collateral damage in Rakhine state
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Myanmar’s vice president told the United Nations on Wednesday that security forces in his country’s Rakhine State, from which hundreds of thousands of people have recently fled, have been instructed to take “full measures” to…
