North Korea confirms US professor detained
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has confirmed the detention of an American citizen for alleged acts of hostility aimed at overthrowing the country.The Korean Central News Agency says officials "intercepted" Kim Sang-Duk at Pyongyang International Airport on April 22.Wednesday's KCNA dispatch says authorities were detaining Kim and are conducting a detailed investigation into his alleged crime.It says Kim was invited to Pyongyang University of Science and Technology to teach accounting as a pr..>> view originalBrexit: UK and EU at odds over size of 'divorce bill'
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDavid Davis on how much Britain may - or may not - have to pay for its Brexit bill. The UK won't pay a 100bn-euro (ÂŁ84bn) "divorce bill" to leave the EU, Brexit Secretary David Davis has said, as the two sides clashed over the issue.He told ITV's Good Morning Britain the UK would pay what was legally due, in line with its rights and obligations, but "not just what the EU wants". EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said there was no d..>> view originalTexas police officer dismissed after fatal shooting of unarmed black teen
Questions remain as to what happened during a police shooting in Balch Springs that left 15-year-old Jordan Edwards dead on April 29. The officer, identified as Roy Oliver, was terminated on May 2. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) The Balch Springs, Tex., police officer who shot and killed Jacob Edwards, a 15-year-old black high school freshman, has been fired after an internal affairs investigation concluded he violated multiple department policies, officials announced Tuesday night. ..>> view originalA Guide To Ivanka Trump's Manual For 'Women Who Work'
Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work is the latest entry in the crowded "having-it-all" genre — the ocean of books aimed at helping women navigate their careers. The book, an outgrowth of a marketing campaign she launched at her company (as the New York Times reported), is a quick read at 217 pages. Readers scanning those pages for new details about the Trump family and Ivanka Trump's role in her father's political career will be disappointed; Trump touches upon those topics rarely and glancingly. Rat..>> view originalRogue FBI translator, Clemson grad married ISIS terrorist
Updated: May 3, 2017 - 5:39 AM COPYRIGHT 2017 WWW.CNN.COM. TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate, CNN has learned. The rogue employee, Daniela Greene, lied to the FBI about where she was going and warned her new husband he was under investigation, according to federal court records. Greene's saga, which has neve..>> view originalSouth Korea's likely next president asks the US to respect its democracy
SEONGNAM, South Korea — South Korea is on the brink of electing a liberal president with distinctly different ideas than the Trump administration on how to deal with North Korea — potentially complicating efforts to punish Kim Jong Un’s regime. He is also a candidate who fears that the U.S. government has been acting to box him in on a controversial American missile defense system and circumvent South Korea’s democratic process. “I don’t believe the U.S. has the intention [to influence our ..>> view originalAbbas pitching himself to Trump as 'strategic partner' for peace
So explained his new representative to the US, close aide Husam Zumlot, ahead of the first face-to-face meeting between his boss and President Donald Trump."President Abbas is coming to give peace a well-deserved chance and fully embrace this historic opportunity for another chance for peace presented by President Trump," Zumlot told CNN. "We are focused on seizing this moment and giving this all that we have."Trump has spoken repeatedly about wanting to broker the "ultimate deal" between Israel..>> view originalSuicide Bombing of US Military Convoy in Kabul Kills 8 Afghans
“The convoy was traveling in mine-resistant vehicles. One vehicle was damaged but was still operational,” Captain Salvin said. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but it comes amid fears of escalating violence as the resurgent Taliban have begun another spring offensive.In announcing Operation Mansouri, named after their former supreme leader, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, who was killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan, the Taliban vowed to take control of more terri..>> view originalFrance's critical election happens in June, not on Sunday
A man walks by election posters for Onward candidate Emmanuel Macron and National Front candidate Marine Le Pen in Rennes, France, on May 2. The graffiti reads “Neither banker, nor fascist.” (Damien Meyer/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) The second round of France’s presidential election, on Sunday, is commanding worldwide attention. The contest pitting Emmanuel Macron’s globalist cosmopolitanism against Marine Le Pen’s France-first nationalism is important, to be sure. But the electio..>> view originalSenate Democrats ready Clinton inquiry, Russia questions for Comey hearing
"FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! The phony......Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?" President Donald Trump said in a pair of tweets Tuesday.Senate judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley originally called the Wednesday oversight hearing of the FBI to examine what the agency knows about a 2015 terrorist att..>> view original
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