SEOUL, South Korea– North Korea's rubber-stamp legislature has enshrined the country's status as a nuclear weapons power in the constitution, state media reported Thursday. "The DPRK's nuclear force-building policy has been made permanent as the basic law of the state, which no one is...
BEIJING, China -- The APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, slated for November in the United States this year, is supposed to be a stage for promoting cooperation, instead of a wrestling ground for provoking confrontations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday. China's Foreign...
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2019. The Moody's ratings agency warned on September 25, 2023, that a US government shutdown this weekend, amid political deadlock in Congress, would have negative implications for the country's top tier credit rating. Just four months after...
Beijing, China– North Korea will allow foreign nationals to enter the country from Monday, Chinese state media reported, after over three years of Covid-induced isolation. North Korea has been largely closed off from the outside world since early 2020, when it shut its borders in...
PARIS, France– An anti-Covid drug widely used across the world may have caused mutations in the virus, researchers said on Monday, but there was no evidence that the changes had led to more dangerous variants. Pharmaceutical giant Merck's antiviral pill molnupiravir was one of the...
PORT SUDAN, Sudan– Outbreaks of dengue fever and acute watery diarrhoea have "killed hundreds" in war-torn Sudan, medics reported on Monday, warning of "catastrophic spreads" that could overwhelm the country's decimated health system. In a statement, the Sudanese doctors' union warned...
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during an event with the Ukrainian-Canadian community and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, not pictured, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 22, 2023. Canada's prime minister said on September 25, 2023, the singling out of a Ukrainian...
By NAM HYUN-WOO South Korea and China are exploring ways to thaw chilled relations as Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his intention to make a long-anticipated visit to Seoul, a move seen as Bejing's attempt to mend bilateral ties after Seoul bolstered its partnerships with Washington and...
Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, center, attends the ASEAN Plus Three foreign ministers' meeting in Jakarta along with his Chinese and Japanese counterparts, Wang Yi, left, and Yoshimasa Hayashi, respectively, July 13. Yonhap Korea, China and Japan are set to hold a series of meetings in...
UNITED NATIONS, United States– With the production of plastic on the rise worldwide and creating ever more pollution, the UN environment chief warned that humanity cannot just recycle its way out of the mess, and she called for a total rethink about the way we use plastics. "There are...
Model Kendall Jenner and Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour (R) attend the Gucci fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 22, 2023 in Milan. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) MILAN, Italy– Gucci's new creative director made his long-awaited...
FRANKFURT, Germany– The head of Adidas has apologised after speculating that Kanye West did not "mean what he said" with anti-Semitic remarks that put an end to his collaboration with the German sportswear brand. Bjorn Gulden, who joined Adidas at the beginning of 2023 after the scandal...
