Kim Yo-jong invites South Korean president to Pyongyang
Sister of the North Korean leader holds historic meeting with Moon Jae-in – the highest level contact between the two sides in over a decade
North Korean has invited South Korean president Moon Jae-in to visit Pyongyang at the “earliest date possible” in what would be the first summit between the two nations in more than a decade.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, made the overture during the rare lunch at Seoul’s presidential palace.
She is the first member of Pyongyang’s ruling dynasty to set foot in the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War and was accompanied Kim Yong-nam, North Korea’s ceremonial head of state, to the meeting.
The two sides discussed inter-Korean relations, according to Yonhap news agency, and Moon responded to the invitation by saying: “Let us make it happen by creating the necessary conditions in the future”.Israel intercepts Iranian drone, jet shot down by Syria
Reuters
Syrian anti-aircraft fire shot down an Israeli jet on Saturday, the military said, after Israel intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria and struck an Iranian target there.
Footage from northern Israel showed what appeared to be white aircraft debris scattered on the ground.
It was one of the most serious incidents involving Israel, Iran and Syria since the start of the Syrian civil war almost eight years ago.
"A combat helicopter successfully intercepted an Iranian UAV that was launched from Syria and infiltrated Israel," the Israeli military said in a statement.
Facebook sued for alleged role in Cambodian political repression
Lindsay Murdoch
When 38 year-old labour activist Sam Sokha posted a 13 second Facebook video of herself throwing a sandal at a billboard of Cambodian’s Prime Minister Hun Sen she was charged with “insult of a public official” and “incitement to discriminate” and faces three years jail.
Across south-east Asia authoritarian governments are turning to Facebook to identify critics, vilify opposition figures and spread fake news and propaganda, rights advocates say.
The social media giants’ hosting of misleading and inaccurate stories and information is further threatening freedom of speech and political freedoms in the region as internet usage steadily increases in countries such as Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines, they say.
Colombia's FARC suspends campaign over security fears
Colombia's former FARC Marxist rebel group has temporarily suspended its campaign for upcoming parliamentary elections due to security threats to its candidates.
FARC leader Pablo Catatumbo announced the party's decision on Friday in the capital, Bogota.
"We have decided to suspend campaign activity until we have sufficient guarantees. We call on all parties and political movements without exception, to make a statement rejecting this type of aggression," Catatumbo said during a press conference.
U.S. SECRETLY NEGOTIATED WITH RUSSIANS TO BUY STOLEN NSA DOCUMENTS — AND THE RUSSIANS OFFERED TRUMP-RELATED MATERIAL, TOO
James Risen
February 10 2018
THE UNITED STATES intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents from Russian operatives, according to sources familiar with the matter. The operation has also inadvertently yielded a cache of documents purporting to relate to Donald Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Over the past year, American intelligence officials have opened a secret communications channel with the Russian operatives, who have been seeking to sell both Trump-related materials and documents stolen from the National Security Agency and obtained by Russian intelligence, according to people involved with the matter and other documentary evidence. The channel started developing in early 2017, when American and Russian intermediaries began meeting in Germany. Eventually, a Russian intermediary, apparently representing some elements of the Russian intelligence community, agreed to a deal to sell stolen NSA documents back to the U.S. while also seeking to include Trump-related materials in the package.
With Holocaust law, Poland imperils reconciliation with its past
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The new law, which makes blaming Poland for Nazi war crimes a criminal offense, is meant to correct a common error about Polish involvement in the Holocaust. But it also threatens growing introspection into what role Poles did have in the genocide.
WURZBURG, GERMANY; AND WARSAW—The 20th century volume of “Europe, Our History,” being finalized now for release in identical German and Polish editions, is meant to overcome the classical nationalist perspectives so common in school textbooks.
German students will learn more about the understudied events east of its frontier, including the Warsaw Uprising. For their Polish peers, the textbook delves into the messy truths of occupation: while there was no collaboration with Nazi Germany at the state level in Poland, some Poles did collaborate with the occupiers.
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