North Korea fires 'projectiles' after new UN sanctions
South Korea says Pyongyang launches several short-range projectiles hours after Security Council resolution is passed.
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North Korea has fired six short-range projectiles into the sea, Seoul officials said, just hours after the UN Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on Pyongyang in two decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.
Thursday's launches on Thursday morning also come shortly after Seoul's parliament passed its first legislation on human rights in North Korea.
Defence spokesman Moon Sang Gyun said the projectiles were fired from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan, adding that authorities were trying to determine what exactly North Korea fired.
The projectiles could be missiles, artillery or rockets, according to the defence ministry.
It’s Hillary Clinton v Donald Trump: let the real contest begin
Richard WolffeWith the Republican and Democratic nominations all but sewn up after Super Tuesday, Donald and Hillary can stop pretending and go after each other
Barring some historic and unprecedented collapse, the US presidential election will be a heavyweight slugfest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump: a contest between one candidate who says she wants to see more love and kindness, and another who says he wants to punch protesters in the face.
That’s not to say the primary rhetoric won’t persist for a while. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio will still hurl mud at Trump as they indulge in the fantasy of a brokered convention that could deny a man who has built his career on hurling mud and indulging fantasies.
Bernie Sanders will continue to talk about a revolution against the selfish and corrupt super-wealthy class while Democrats increasingly revel in Clinton’s attacks on a man who embodies the selfish and corrupt super-wealthy class. And we in the beloved media will do our very best to pretend this primary is real. Because: clicks and ratings.Saudi Arabia turns on Lebanon for its unfaithfulness and lack of gratitude after decades of largesse
After pouring billions into rebuilding the country following successive Israeli invasions and air raids, the Saudis find that they cannot prevent the Shia from expressing their fury at Riyadh
If you drive from Sunni Muslim Sidon to Shia Muslim southern Lebanon, you can travel from Saudi Arabia to Iran in 10 minutes. Sidon – like Lebanon’s other great Sunni majority city, Tripoli – has always basked in the favour of the Saudi monarchy.
The south, with its mass of Hezbollah fighters – armed and paid for by Tehran, its “martyr” photographs plastered across the walls of every village – has long been a lung through which Saudi Arabia’s Iranian enemies breathe. But now Saudi Arabia, blundering into the civil war in Yemen and threatening to send its overpaid but poorly trained soldiers into Syria, has turned with a vengeance on Lebanon for its unfaithfulness and lack of gratitude after decades of Saudi largesse.
Party pressure: Chinese journalists in hot water over 'subversive' headline
March 3, 2016 - 3:58PMPhilip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Beijing: Were the headlines an inadvertent juxtaposition or a subversive hidden message protesting Communist Party censorship?
Read separately, the headlines on the February 20 front page of the Southern Metropolis Daily seemed innocuous enough – but have landed the Guangzhou tabloid's editors and management in hot water.
"The party- and government-run media are a propaganda front and must be surnamed 'party'," the first banner headline read, covering Chinese President Xi Jinping's high-profile visit the day before to the Communist Party's three main state-run news organs: the People's Daily newspaper, the Xinhua news agency and national broadcaster CCTV.
Diplo: The latest white musician to misrepresent Pakistan
The Grammy-nominated DJ came to Islamabad to play a show for the elite and later uploaded a picture of himself in a slumWhen Coldplay decided to use India as the fascinating backdrop for their music video recently, the band rubbed many the wrong way.
Grammy-nominated DJ Diplo managed to reignite more or less the same debate when he flew down to Islamabad last weekend for a performance; the electronic music producer was apparently overcome with emotion at the end of his 24 hour trip in the capital.
While I'd love to brush the above off as "just a Facebook post" or "good intentions that are poorly executed", we can't deny the west's legacy of representing South Asian countries in a way that's more condescending than accurate.
How the nuclear deal boosted Iran's moderates — and showed Iranian elections can matter
Updated by Max Fisher
The Obama administration was careful, in advocating for the nuclear deal with Iran, not to argue that the deal would necessarily bolster the country's moderates, or that such a boost would be required for the deal to work. But they clearly hoped.
"It is possible that if we sign this nuclear deal, we strengthen the hand of those more moderate forces inside of Iran," President Obama told NPR in April. "But the key point I want to make is, the deal is not dependent on anticipating those changes. If they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal."
It now looks like those hopes may have paid off — that the nuclear deal, according to Iran analysts, may have helped deepen the rise of moderate political forces in Iran, potentially tilting the country's politics in a more conciliatory direction.
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