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North Korea has not stopped nuclear, missile programs: UN report

  by Carole Landry Agence France Presse North Korea has pressed ahead with its nuclear and missile programs and continues…

UN moves to unblock humanitarian aid to North Korea

  by Carole Landry Agence France-Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) -- The UN Security Council is poised to back a…

Seoul deploys warship to Libya after S. Korean, Filipinos kidnapped

  SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- Seoul said Thursday it had deployed a warship to Libya in an apparent show…

Trump threatens to ramp up tariffs on Chinese goods

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - The United States may jack up the tariff rate on the next $200 billion in…

US Korean War dead heading home at last

by By Ronen Zilberman with Thomas Watkins in Washington Agence France-Presse PEARL HARBOR, United States (AFP) - Sixty-five years after…

Fears grow as flooding displaces 130,000 in Myanmar

BAGO, Myanmar (AFP) - Fears that embankments could burst under fresh rains mounted Wednesday in flooded southeastern Myanmar, where more…

Electricity crisis leaves Iraqis gasping for cool air

by Ammar Karim Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) -- As the stultifying summer heat sends Iraqis in search of cool…

UN chief to discuss North Korea in Japan

  UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) -- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is expected to discuss the North Korea crisis with…

Nearly 120,000 displaced in Myanmar floods

YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) -- Nearly 120,000 people have been displaced after floods submerged a vast swathe of southeastern Myanmar, killing…

N. Korea developing new missiles: report

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US intelligence agencies have found that North Korea is building new missiles, based on satellite…

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