North Korea says missile test shows all US within range
North Korea has hailed as a success its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), describing it as a "stern warning" for the US.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the test proved that the entire US was within striking range, state media reported.
However, experts say many of North Korea's missiles cannot accurately hit targets.
The launch came three weeks after North Korea's first ICBM test.
The Pentagon said the latest missile was launched at 23:41 (15:41 GMT) from an arms plant in Jagang province in the north of the country.
North Korea said the ICBM flew for just over 47 minutes and reached an altitude of 3,724km (2,300 miles).
It is unusual for North Korea to launch a missile at night - the significance is as yet unclear. This is the first missile fired from Jagang province, indicating a previously-unknown launch site is operational.
China and Russia have 'responsibility' for North Korea nuclear threat, says US
As Kim Jong-un hails latest test-launch, Rex Tillerson says two powers are ‘enablers’ of Pyongyang’s program
The United States has accused China and Russia of bearing “unique and special responsibility” for North Korea’s “belligerent” pursuit of nuclear weapons, after Pyongyang tested its latest ballistic missile.
North Korea conducted its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test late on Friday in what it called a warning to the “beast-like US imperialists”. It came less than a month after its first such experiment, on 4 July.
The test-launch sent “a grave warning to the US” that it “would not go scot-free if it dares provoke” the North, Pyongyang’s official news agency, KCNA, said in a statement.EU accused of 'wilfully letting refugees drown' as NGOs face having rescues suspended in the Mediterranean
Italy could ban groups that refuse to sign up to controversial 'code of conduct' from carrying out rescues
Aid workers have accused the EU of “wilfully letting people drown in the Mediterranean” as they face being forced to suspend rescue missions for refugees attempting the world’s deadliest sea crossing.
Italy is attempting to impose a code of conduct on NGOs operating ships in the search and rescue zone off the coast of Libya, which is now the main launching point for migrants trying to reach Europe on smugglers’ boats.
Humanitarian groups have argued the code will impede their workby banning the transfer of refugees to larger ships, which allows vessels to continue rescues, and forcing them to allow police officers on board.
Brazil sends troops to Rio de Janeiro to fight organized crime
Thousands of Brazilian soldiers have been deployed in Rio de Janeiro to tackle the rise in street crime. Nearly a hundred members of the security forces have been killed in Rio this year.
Some 8,500 soldiers and hundreds of police and highway patrol officers have been deployed on to the streets of Brazil's second city to fight organized crime.
The official government gazette reported that President Michel Temer had signed a decree allowing the use of armed forces in Rio. In all, 10,000 troops are to be mobilized.
While they have previously carried out patrols, controlled checkpoints and recovered weapons seized during police raids, the troops are to begin participating in operations against drug traffickers, Defense Minister Raul Jungmann announced at a news conference on Thursday.
Court rules Korean school entitled to gov't tuition-free program
A Japanese court said Friday the government should retract its decision to deny high school tuition subsidies to a Korean school in Osaka, the first ruling approving eligibility of such schools in similar lawsuits.
The Osaka District Court said it is "illegal" that the government excluded Osaka Korean High School from the tuition-free high school education program from the viewpoint of political issues, such as North Korea's past abductions of Japanese citizens.
The decision contrasts with a July 19 ruling by the Hiroshima District Court which rejected a petition by the operator of a Korean school in Hiroshima calling for the reversal of the government decision to exclude the school from the tuition-free program.
MS-13, the Gang Trump Said He Would Decimate, Is One of Texas’s Most Powerful
Just a few days before President Trump on Friday promised to decimate MS-13, the state of Texas released a threat assessment that said MS-13 is among a handful of the most dangerous of 20 criminal gangs, with as many as 100,000 members that operate across the state.
MS-13 and three other Hispanic gangs were categorized as the biggest threat to public safety based on their relationships with Mexican cartels and their high levels of violence and transnational crime, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety assessment, which was released Tuesday. There are about 500 members of MS-13 in Texas, the DPS estimates, operating in a regional cell model. That means the gang is composed of several cells in the state that are all part of MS-13 but generally act independently, with little control or command between cells.
“MS-13 is now arguably the most recognized transnational street gang in the world, with ongoing command, control, and coordination between gang leaders and cliques in several different countries,” the assessment reads, adding that the gang first formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s as a way for immigrants from El Salvador to protect themselves from other street gangs. “While the increase in the presence of the MS-13 grows, it appears that Texas is continually used as a transitional zone, as gang members are traveling onward to the U.S. East Coast.”
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