North Korea ICBM launch: US and S Korea respond with drill
The US and South Korea have held a ballistic missile drill, after North Korea tested a long-range missile experts believe may reach Alaska.
Self-restraint was "all that separated armistice and war" and could be changed at any time, the two allies said.
It would be a "grave mistake" for the North to think otherwise, they said.
China and Russia have urged the North to suspend its weapons programme in exchange for a halt to US-South Korean military exercises.
The launch, the latest in a series of tests, was in defiance of a ban by the UN Security Council.
‘Scarred and broken’: children escaping Isis in Mosul suffer waking nightmares
Experts say living under Islamic State has caused a severe form of psychological trauma in children that can cause lifelong damage
Years of living under Islamic State has left the children of Mosul with such dangerous levels of psychological damage they are unable to show emotion or play and are haunted by waking nightmares.
Experts report that the children are so affected by witnessing extreme violence that they have symptoms of “toxic stress” – a severe form of psychological trauma that can cause lifelong damage.
The research, by Save the Children, was based on discussions with 65 children who had escaped to the Hammam al-Alil camp for displaced persons, south of the battered city.
Four-year-old Rohingya Muslim girl born in Burma refugee camp so malnourished she 'cannot grow'
Rosmaida Bibi product of deprivation, segregation and persecution endured by community in Buddhist-majority nation
Ever since she was born in a squalid displaced camp for Burma's ethnic Rohingya minority that authorities won't let anyone leave, Rosmaida Bibi has struggled to do something most of the world's children do effortlessly: grow.
Frail and severely malnourished, she looks a lot like every other underfed child here — until you realise she's not really like any of them at all.
A tiny girl with big brown eyes, Rosmaida is four — but barely the size of a one-year-old.
She wobbles unsteadily when she walks. Bones protrude through the flimsy skin of her chest. And while other kids her age chatter incessantly, Rosmaida is listless, only able to speak a handful of first words: “Papa.” “Mama.” “Rice.”Koike to push for smoking ban before 2020 Olympics
By Elaine Lies
Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike will push for a law banning smoking in public places, to make the Japanese capital smoke-free ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics, media said, defying national politicians who failed to pass a similar law this spring.
Tokyo risks being one of the unhealthiest cities to host the Olympics in years, but efforts for a national ban died in the face of opposition from pro-smoking politicians - many in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party - as well as restaurateurs and Japan Tobacco, which is one-third government-owned and paid the state $700 million in dividends in 2015.
Although passive smoking kills thousands of Japanese each year, the Health Ministry's watered-down proposal - which would have allowed indoor smoking in smaller establishments with adequate ventilation - could not make it to a vote in parliament this spring.
Fighting for medical marijuana amid Duterte's drug war
Philippines President Duterte is cracking down on recreational marijuana use, but he backs medicinal use of the drug.
by
Brennan Weiss
Manila, Philippines - Sitting at an undisclosed location in Metro Manila, Alden is busy preparing for his next delivery until his phone beeps. He says it is one of his customers texting to check that he is OK and hasn't been shot like thousands of others since the start of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
Alden, however, is not a typical drug dealer. He treats hundreds of patients with debilitating diseases and life-threatening illnesses, even though he never studied medicine in college. He may not be a doctor, but he has something very few medical practitioners in the Philippines have: cannabis oil.
Despite a strict prohibition on marijuana - which is made from dried cannabis leaves and flowers - and the threat of Duterte's crackdown on drugs, Alden manages an underground network that provides marijuana to people suffering from a wide range of medical conditions - including cancer, neurological disorders, and arthritis.
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Born in the United States, Learning to Live in Mexico
Alice Proujansky, Cora Currier
Alexandra, a 13-year-old with long hair and a wry smile, misses her school in Sacramento. Now that she lives in Tijuana, Mexico, her mother is stricter, always worried about her safety, and won’t let her go to the movies alone. She hates wearing a uniform and is struggling in school.
“Sometimes you just think about it and you’re like what am I doing here?” she said. “I was born over there and so why am I here?”
Alexandra was among a group of young Mexican-American teenagers gathered in the courtyard of Sindicato Alba Roja secondary school in Tijuana in June. They are the children of families that represent the border city’s multinational identity.
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