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Iranian oil tanker burns for third day as winds, waves lash rescuers
Associated Press, Published on 09/01/2018
» BEIJING: Lashing winds, high waves and toxic gases are hindering dozens of rescue boats struggling to locate missing sailors from a stricken oil tanker in the East China Sea and to extinguish a fire that has burned for the past three days on the ship.
N.Korea to send athletes to S.Korea Olympics in breakthrough
New York Times, Published on 09/01/2018
» SEOUL: North Korea agreed on Tuesday to send athletes to February’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, a symbolic breakthrough after months of escalating tensions over the North’s rapidly advancing nuclear and missile programmes.
Singapore arrests 17, seizes millions in Shell oil 'heist'
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2018
» SINGAPORE: Seventeen men have been arrested and millions of dollars in cash seized as part of an investigation into a suspected oil theft at Shell's biggest refinery, Singapore police said on Tuesday.
US, S.Korea delay war games for Olympics
Kyodo News, Published on 05/01/2018
» SEOUL: US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae In agreed in a telephone talk Thursday to delay annual joint military exercises during the Winter Olympic Games in February, South Korea's presidential office said.
N. Korea reopens cross-border hotline with S. Korea
Kyodo News, Published on 03/01/2018
» North Korea reopened a cross-border communication link with South Korea on Wednesday, the South's Unification Ministry said, in the latest sign Pyongyang is eager to improve ties with Seoul amid heightened tensions over the North's nuclear and missile programmes.
US B-1 bomber flies over Korea in show of force
Kyodo News, Published on 07/12/2017
» SEOUL: The United States flew a B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday amidst a combined air combat exercise being held this week with South Korea, the latter's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
4 bodies, likely from N. Korea, found along Japan coast
Kyodo News, Published on 04/12/2017
» TOKYO: Four bodies, suspected of being from North Korea, were found Monday along Japan's northern coast on the Sea of Japan, local authorities said.
13 dead after fishing boat capsizes off S. Korean coast
Kyodo News, Published on 03/12/2017
» Thirteen people were killed and two are missing after a fishing boat with 22 people aboard collided with a tanker and capsized off the west coast of South Korea on Sunday, local media quoted the coast guard as reporting.
N. Korea claims just-tested ICBM can hit entire US
Kyodo News, Published on 29/11/2017
» North Korea claimed Wednesday it has successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile that is capable of hitting anywhere in the United States with a nuclear warhead.
Trump asked Asean to tighten N.Korean isolation
Kyodo News, Published on 16/11/2017
» MANILA: In a move to increase the economic isolation of North Korea, US President Donald Trump asked Asean leaders to do all they could to tighten the trade boycott imposed on North Korea, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.