G20: 'Difficult' talks ahead as protesters arrested
Leaders have begun a final day of talks at the G20 meeting in Hamburg as officials try to bridge the gap with the US on issues such as trade and climate change.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is hosting the summit in Hamburg, said the talks so far had been "very difficult".
Negotiators worked through the night in an attempt to reach a compromise on the wording of the final summit statement.
It comes after a second night of violent protests on Hamburg's streets.
The G20 (Group of Twenty) is a summit for 19 countries, both developed and developing, plus the EU.
US President Donald Trump, who met UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday morning, that he expected a "very powerful" trade deal between the two countries "very quickly".
Donald Trump is 'blocking' a G20 agreement because it has a line about climate change
'The outcome is good. We have a communique,' one EU official says. 'There is just one outstanding issue on climate.'
Donald Trump's team of US negotiators are holding up a communique from the G20 summit because of a disagreement about climate change, an EU official has claimed.
Negotiators from the Group of 20 economies have agreed the outlines of the document from their summit in the German city of Hamburg, but it being held up because of the US's insistence that there be a reference to fossil fuels.
"The outcome is good. We have a communique," one EU official said. "There is just one outstanding issue on climate."
He said the G20 statement included a commitment to "fight protectionism".
India, China ties strained as militaries standoff near border
India and China have been caught in a lengthy confrontation along their shared frontier, spiking tensions and allowing rabidly jingoistic press in both countries to aggravate the already deep-seated mutual distrust.
For nearly three weeks, Chinese and Indian border troops have confronted each other close to a valley controlled by China that separates India from Bhutan - a close Indian ally - and gives China access to the so-called Chicken's Neck, a thin strip of land that connects India to its remote northeastern regions.
It has escalated tensions between the neighboring giants, who share a 3,500-kilometer (2,175-mile) frontier, large parts of which are disputed.
Beijing alleges Indian troops crossed into a region known in China as Donglang, called Doklam in India, early in June and obstructed work on a road on the Himalayan plateau.
The letters of reconciliation sent to ex-FARC fighters
It might seem odd to send messages of love to a group that has terrorised your country for the last 50 years, but that's exactly what one organisation in Colombia is doing to former FARC fighters (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), after an historic peace deal between the group and the country's government was finally ratified in November 2016.
It took tough negotiations to end the bloody 52-year-long conflict that resulted in the deaths of more than 220,000 people, with almost 8 million people displaced. For FARC combatants who have known nothing but war, putting down their guns and re-entering society will not be an easy task. Cartas por la Reconciliación ("Letters of reconciliation") is trying to make the reintegration process easier, by inviting the public to send letters of compassion and welcome to combatants who have put down their arms.
Three Colombians, Leonardo Párraga, Cristian Palacios, and Franz Rodriguez began Cartas por la Reconciliación after hearing a speech by Nobel Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Bogota in February 2017. In his speech, Satyarthi suggested that instead of sending love letters or Valentine’s cards to our loved ones on Valentine’s Day, letters should be sent to refugees – people who need compassion more than anyone. This idea stuck with the team, and so they set about trying to work out how to send letters to former FARC fighters.
Three things to know about North Korea's missile tests
With advances in its missile programme and the July 4 test, here are three technical milestones and why they matter.
By
Alex Gatopoulos
Since Kim Jong-un's ascendancy in December 2011, North Korea has accelerated its missile development programme, the tempo of tests increasing considerably from those under his father Kim Jong Il. After failures in 2016, North Korea has this year made genuine advances in its missile programme.
On Tuesday, July 4, Independence Day in the United States, Pyongyang tested what it claimed was the country's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which Kim Jong-un called a "gift" to the US.
This test is significant as the projected range of the missile puts North Korea firmly in the select group of countries that have produced an ICBM. With Kim Jong-un threatening to reduce the US "to ashes", North Korea now has expanded the missile's range to potentially hit targets in the US.
Dentsu execs off the hook after ad giant summarily indicted for overworking employees
KYODO
Dentsu Inc., Japan’s leading ad agency, has been summarily indicted for suspected labor violations after the suicide of a new recruit focused attention on its culture of overwork and prompted a criminal investigation.
Three senior officials who allegedly made employees work illegally long hours, however, will not be indicted, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office said Friday.
A summary indictment is typically followed by a summary court order requiring the payment of fines, and effectively closes the investigation into Dentsu.
The case has had a major impact on the government’s initiative to improve working conditions at Japanese firms and reduce karoshi (death from overwork).
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