CNN, POOL, UNTV, KOREAN CENTRAL TV, AVN, KBS, SOUTH KOREAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE By Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea’s weapons are needed to defend the country against a “hostile” United States, said leader Kim Jong Un, state media KCNA reported Tuesday. Kim made the comments as he stood against a backdrop of
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh, Karen Smith and Tara John, CNN Correction: A previous version of this story and headline incorrectly attributed remarks to a Twitter account purporting to be the chancellor of Kabul University. CNN has subsequently learned that this account was not affiliated with the chancellor or the university. This story has been updated. (CNN)
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN China has finally showed off its most advanced fighter aircraft with domestic-made engines — a significant milestone as Beijing pushes the capabilities of its J-20 stealth jets in a bid to rival the United States’ F-22. The pair of twin-engine J-20s that put on a show for crowds at Airshow China
Continue ReadingCNN By Jake Kwon and Maija Ehlinger, CNN Communication lines between North and South Korea have been restored for the first time in months, Seoul said in a statement Monday. The reopening follows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s vow last week to restart communication in an address to the country’s rubber-stamp legislature. “North Korea
Continue ReadingBy Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea has fired a projectile presumed to be a short-range missile into waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, according to statements from South Korean officials — just hours before Seoul launched a new submarine. The missile was fired around 6:40 a.m. local time Tuesday, the South Korean
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova, CNN The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu wants the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to weigh in the rights of current and future residents to be protected from climate change. During a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Bob Loughman called on the international community to
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who spent nearly three years in house arrest in Canada, returned home late Saturday, ending a prolonged extradition fight with the United States and sparking an outburst of national pride in China, where her release has been portrayed as a diplomatic victory for Beijing. Meng, who was
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Gladys Tsai and Kazumi Duncan, CNN At 75, Isao Kakehi was in good health and in love. It was 2013, and he had embarked on an exciting new relationship with Chisako Kakehi, a 67-year-old widow he met through a Japanese matchmaking agency. Within two months, the couple married, moved in together, and
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Ehsan Popalzai, Brent Swails, Sandi Sidhu and Celine Alkhaldi The Taliban in Afghanistan have put on public display the bodies of four men who were killed after they allegedly carried out a kidnapping in the western city of Herat. A journalist in the city told CNN that a group of four men
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton, CNN Two Canadians detained by China for nearly three years have been released, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday night. Trudeau said Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor boarded a plane headed for Canada at about 7:30 p.m. ET Friday night and would land in Canada sometime Saturday. “These two men have
Continue ReadingBy Ben Westcott, CNN In the nearly two years since the pandemic began, Turkmenistan has not seen a single case of Covid-19. Or at least, that’s what the central Asian country’s secretive, authoritarian government claims. Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic home to nearly 6 million people, is one of at least five countries that have
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN With China facing a looming demographic crisis, the government last month passed into law a three-child policy raising the permitted limit on family sizes. But with many couples still hesitant to expand their families, some places are now offering cash incentives to encourage more births. Huangzhugen village, in Lianjiang city in
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung and Brad Lendon, CNN Taiwan on Thursday accused China of “bullying” after Beijing sent a total of 24 warplanes into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ), the third-largest incursion in the past two years of heightened tensions between Beijing and Taipei. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft, including bombers, fighter jets, anti-submarine
Continue ReadingCNN By Paula Hancocks and Salai TZ, CNN Five-year-old Su Htet Waing often wakes up crying for her mother and older sister. Hiding in the mosquito-infested jungles of Myanmar in a makeshift tent with her father, her young world has been torn apart. “I want to sleep with mummy, but the police have taken her,”
Continue ReadingBy Paula Hancocks and Salai TZ, CNN Five-year-old Su Htet Waing often wakes up crying for her mother and older sister. Hiding in the mosquito-infested jungles of Myanmar in a makeshift tent with her father, her young world has been torn apart. “I want to sleep with mummy, but the police have taken her,” she
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Ben Westcott, CNN After months of lockdown, parts of Southeast Asia are leaving behind their “zero-Covid” policy and charting a path toward living with the virus — despite experts’ warnings that it may be too early to do so. Covid-19 swept across the region this summer, fueled by the highly infectious
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN Two Japanese sisters have been confirmed as the world’s oldest living identical twins and the oldest ever identical twins at the age of 107. Born on November 5, 1913, Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were 107 years and 300 days old as of September 1, according to a statement from Guinness
Continue ReadingBy Hira Humayun and Helen Regan, CNN Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, and only women whose jobs cannot be done by men are allowed to come to work — the latest restrictions imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The order, announced by Kabul’s acting Mayor Hamdullah Nohmani
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Wright, Anna Coren and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Tugging at the folds of the traditional hijab dress, two young sisters jostle and laugh to try to get their mother’s attention as she fries onions on the stove. Along with their 6-month-old sister, the girls are oblivious to the threat they now face from
Continue ReadingBy Nic Robertson, Ingrid Formanek and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Emal Ahmadi knew his brother Zamarai wasn’t the ISIS-K facilitator that American officials portrayed him to be in the days after his death. Now, at last, the whole world knows that too. Zamarai Ahmadi and nine other civilians, including seven children, were killed in a US
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