North Korea agrees to send athletes to Winter Olympics after talks with South
Delegation including cheerleaders will travel to Games despite rising tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme
North Korea will send athletes and cheerleaders to next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, after the two countries held their first official talks for more than two years.
The North Korean party will also include performing artists and journalists, South Korea’s vice unification minister, Chun Hae-sung, said after the first session of talks ended on Tuesday.
Chun added that South Korea had proposed that the two Koreas march together during the opening and closing ceremonies at the Pyeongchang Games, which open on 9 February.
India's supreme court could be about to decriminalise gay sex in major victory for LGBT rights
Court agrees to review Section 377 of the penal code which is a hangover from the British Empire
India's Supreme Court has agreed to reexamine a colonial era law which outlawed sex between men, in a possible breakthrough for gay rights in the country.
The court said it would reexamine the validity of Section 377 of the Indian penal code which bans “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal” which is punishable by life imprisonment and has widely been interpreted as a law against gay sex.
It is adapted from an 16th century English law and was adopted when India was a colony of the British Empire.
Hungary's Orban tells Germany: 'You wanted the migrants, we didn't'
In an interview with the German daily Bild, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended his country's refusal of an EU-wide refugee resettlement quota, saying that he believed refugees are "Muslim invaders."
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a populist leader known for his hardline anti-immigration stance, said that the European Union's migration policies threaten the "sovereignty and cultural identity" of Hungary, in an interview published Monday.
"We don't see these people as Muslim refugees. We see them as Muslim invaders," he told the German daily Bild newspaper.
In the interview, he said Syrian refugees were not fleeing their home country — where a multi-sided war has been raging for almost seven years — out of fear for their lives.
Cycle of shame: Harassed in the street, then again on social media
By Rossalyn Warren, for CNN
Lilongwe, Malawi — In a grainy mobile phone video that went viral last year, three women are seen stripping another woman naked, pulling her hair, dragging her to the ground and smashing a flower pot over her head.
The video of the assault, filmed by one of the women, spread among closed WhatsApp groups before circulating on Facebook in Malawi. It gripped the country, sparking a national conversation about gender-based violence.
A few days later, an image of the same three women surfaced online. They were pictured topless, sitting on the cement floor of a police station.
Anti-austerity protests in Tunisia turn deadly
A 55-year-old man has died after a protest over government austerity measures in Tunisia, the country's state news agency Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) has reported.
Five others were injured during the demonstration, which took place in Tebourba, 40km west of the capital Tunis, according to TAP.
The Tunisian Ministry of Interior confirmed in a statement on Monday evening that a 55-year-old man had died in a local hospital after being admitted with symptoms of dizziness.
S Korea says it won't seek to renegotiate 'comfort women' deal with Japan
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South Korea said on Tuesday it will not seek to renegotiate a 2015 deal with Japan aimed at resolving the sensitive issue of "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels.
Japan and South Korea, who share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonisation, are central to global efforts to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
North Korea has been ramping up its missile and nuclear tests in defiance of pressure from the United States, the main ally of both Japan and South Korea, and United Nations Security Council resolutions.
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