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Crimea can be best tourism hub in world or global financial center – Indian Business Alliance president

By Caesar R. Vallejos Eagle News Service YALTA, Republic of Crimea (Eagle News) — Crimea can be the best tourism hub in the world or a global financial center, Indian Business Alliance President Sammy Kotwani said at the 4th Yalta International Economic Forum. “The city can become like Hong Kong or global financial center,” Kotwani told eaglenews.ph.  He is one of the panelists at the session on the integration of Crimea into global trade last […]

N. Korea to rejoin South’s time zone in conciliatory gesture

  SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would move the country’s clocks 30 minutes forward to unify with the South’s time zone as a conciliatory gesture after Friday’s inter-Korean summit, Seoul said Sunday. The two countries on the divided peninsula have had different time zones since 2015 when the North suddenly changed its standard time to 30 minutes behind the South. Pyongyang cited a nationalistic rationale, saying it would […]

N. Korea offers to shut nuclear test site in May, invite US experts

    by Jung Hawon / With Mandel Egan in Washington, Michigan © Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite US weapons experts to the country, Seoul said Sunday, as Donald Trump expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal in his summit with the secretive regime. The reported pledge from the North’s leader Kim Jong Un follows weeks of whirlwind diplomacy that saw […]

Things ‘going very well,’ Trump says after talk with S.Korea’s Moon on details of Kim meeting

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Saturday that “things are going very well” after talking with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in about an upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Just had a long and very good talk with President Moon of South Korea. Things are going very well, time and location of meeting with North Korea is being set,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Also spoke to Prime […]

Three arrested after 10 young Israeli hikers killed in desert flash flood

  JERUSALEM (AFP) — Three people have been arrested in Israel in connection with the deaths of 10 young hikers in flash floods during a program to prepare them for military service, police said Friday. The ten students, mostly aged 17 and 18, were caught up in floods while hiking in the Arabah desert in southern Israel following exceptionally heavy rainfall. They were part of a group of around 25 hikers taking part in the […]

Thessaloniki subway dig unearths secrets of ‘city under the city’

  by John Hadoulis / Vassilis Kyriakoulis  © Agence France-Presse THESSALONIKI, Greece (AFP) — Shovels and brooms in hand, some two dozen workmen trudge around the remains of an ancient villa, deep beneath the bustle of modern-day Thessaloniki. Suddenly, one of them breaks away to deliver the latest find — a small clay head of a hook-nosed, bearded man with an ugly grin. “Probably a votive offering,” notes the junior archaeologist on duty. A 15-year subway […]

Deadline looms on US steel tariff exemptions

  by Heather Scott © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Key US trading partners face a looming deadline on Tuesday when crippling tariffs on steel and aluminum are set to take effect — and they are urging the White House to exempt them permanently. The major suppliers, including Canada, Mexico, South Korea and the European Union, were granted a temporary reprieve when President Donald Trump imposed the tariffs in March. The measures were largely […]

N. Korea says ‘historic meeting’ opens ‘new era for peace’

  SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The inter-Korean summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in was a “historic meeting” that paved the way for the start of a new era, Pyongyang’s state media said Saturday. The official KCNA news agency said it was a “historic meeting that has opened a new era for national reconciliation and unity, peace and prosperity”, and carried the text of the leaders’ Panmunjom […]

Trump hails Chinese president’s ‘great help’ on North Korea

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Friday hailed the “great help” provided by his Chinese counterpart on North Korea, which has tacked toward diplomacy after carrying out nuclear and missile tests that sent tensions soaring. “Please do not forget the great help that my good friend, President Xi of China, has given to the United States, particularly at the Border of North Korea. Without him, it would have been a […]

Watch: N.Korea’s Kim and S. Korea’s Moon step over demarcation line in historic peace moves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmN8C1RcXc   In this video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stepped over the Military Demarcation Line to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in the South side after a “historic handshake” that signaled the start of warmer relations between the two Koreas. At the Military Demarcation Line that delineates the border, Moon asked him: “While you come to the South, when can I possibly go over there?” After stepping over the line and becoming the […]