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Statue of ‘comfort women’ pulled from Japan exhibit finds new home

Arts&DesignAugust 15, 2019

MADRID (Reuters) -- A Spanish businessman has bought a statue symbolizing women forced to work in Japanese military brothels which was removed from an exhibition in Japan after organizers received th...
Hong Kong mops up after weekend of violence, braces for more protests

World NewsAugust 12, 2019

HONG KONG (Reuters) -- Metro stations in Hong Kong resumed regular service on Monday and streets were being cleaned of debris as the city recovered from another night of violent clashes between anti-...
[Newsmaker] Disgraced money manager Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide

World NewsAugust 11, 2019

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday after an apparent suicide in the New York jail cell where he was being held without bail on sex-trafficking charge...
Taiwan rattled by 6.0 magnitude quake, no immediate reports of damage

World NewsAugust 8, 2019

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's northeastern coastal city of Yilan on Thursday, the island's weather bureau said, with no immediate reports of damage. A Reuters witness said the quake...
Gunman kills 20 in rampage at Walmart store in Texas

World NewsAugust 4, 2019

A gunman armed with a rifle killed 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday and wounded more than two dozen before being arrested, authorities said, after the latest US mass shooting sen...
Japan's Abe unlikely to meet S. Korea's Moon at UN in Sept. - Sankei

Foreign AffairsJuly 29, 2019

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is unlikely to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in during the United Nations general assembly in September, the Sankei newspaper reported, the latest sign of fr...
One of the missiles North Korea fired was new design - S. Korea official

North KoreaJuly 25, 2019

At least one of the two missiles North Korea test fired on Thursday was a newly developed design and flew some 690 km (428 miles), an official at South Korea's defence ministry told Reuters. The oth...
Japan's pro-constitution reform forces fall short of 2/3 upper house majority: NHK

World NewsJuly 22, 2019

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc won a solid majority in an upper house election on Sunday but his coalition and allies fell short of a two-thirds majority needed t...
Trump offers to help ease tension in Japan-South Korea dispute

Foreign AffairsJuly 21, 2019

WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) -- US President Donald Trump on Friday offered to help ease tensions in the political and economic dispute between Japan and South Korea, which threatens global supplies of...
US-S.Korean military exercise to proceed - top S.Korean official

Foreign AffairsJuly 21, 2019

A top South Koreanofficial on Saturday said a US-South Korean military exercisewould go ahead as planned next month, denying Pyongyang'scharges that holding it would breach an agreement made between ...
Golf-Korean duo An and Park on the rise at British Open

GolfJuly 21, 2019

South Korea's An Byeong-hun roared up the British Open leaderboard as he picked up three strokes by the halfway stage of his third round on Saturday. With the leading pairs still to tee off on a ple...
Pompeo hopes US, North Korea can be 'more creative' in nuclear talks

North KoreaJuly 16, 2019

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he hoped both North Korea and the United States could "be a little more creative" when the two sides restart talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear...
US wants North Korea freeze as beginning, not end, of denuclearization

North KoreaJuly 10, 2019

The United States would hope to see a freeze in the North Korean nuclear program as the start of a process of denuclearization, the State Department said on Tuesday, ahead of fresh talks with Pyongya...
Australian student released from North Korea in 'good spirits'

North KoreaJuly 4, 2019

An Australian student who was detained in North Korea has been released and has safely left the country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday. Alek Sigley, 29, who was studying in the Nort...
South Korea releases two ships as oil transfers to North "not deliberate" sanctions breach

North KoreaJuly 3, 2019

South Korea has released two shipsit had seized on suspicion of transferring oil to North Korea as there was no deliberate breach of UN sanctions, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Tuesday. South Kor...