Koreas summit: North Korean media hail 'historic' meeting
Friday's summit between the leaders of North and South Korea was a "historic meeting" paving the way for the start of a new era, North Korea's media say.
The North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agreed to work to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons.
In a rare move, state-run TV and the official KCNA news agency hailed the talks and the leaders' commitment to seek "complete denuclearisation".
The summit came just months after warlike rhetoric from the North.
It saw Mr Kim become the first North Korean leader to set foot in South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
The two men warmly shook hands and then stepped symbolically over the military demarcation line to the North Korean side.
Aung San Suu Kyi seeks new relationship with UN over Rohingya crisis
Myanmar leader is allowing UN organisations into country to prepare for return of refugees
Aung San Suu Kyi hopes to restore her battered reputation by allowing UN human rights and development organisations to enter Myanmar to prepare the ground for the large-scale return of Rohingya Muslims.
Her aides hope the offer, linked to internal political changes strengthening her position and the appointment of a UN special envoy for the crisis, can mark a turning point in her relations with the international community.
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar since a military crackdown began last August, joining an estimated 200,000 who have sought shelter in Bangladesh over the past few decades.
The Korean summit has left both Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un feeling more confident – so what happens next?
Trump greeted people with the tweet ‘KOREAN WAR TO END’ and then, unsurprisingly, claimed credit for the talks. But Kim Jong-un knows full denuclearisation would put his country in a vulnerable position
The statement by the leaders of the two Koreas was grand enough in its aspiration to match this extraordinary and momentous day – denuclearisation, replacing confrontation with cooperation, nothing less than the seeking of a new age of peace.
And, beyond it, there is the hope of all this leading to the ultimate dream: unification of a divided country which had drawn international powers into its war and the decades of enmity which followed. Kim Jong-un’s declaration that the North and South were “brethren who should not live apart” and “will become one” is not something which is practical, or something that Seoul would want, in the short term, but it is something which remains the ultimate prize.
Largest child sacrifice in history discovered in Peru
Updated 0328 GMT (1128 HKT) April 28, 2018
Scientists have unearthed a dark secret in Peru.
The skeletal remains of more than 140 children and 200 baby llamas were found on the country's northern coast. It may be evidence of the largest child sacrifice in history, according to an exclusive report by National Geographic, released Thursday on its website. The remains of a man and two women were also found.
The sacrifices are believed to have taken place 550 years ago in the pre-Columbian Chimú Empire, in a sacrificial site formerly known as Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, close to a UNESCO World Heritage site of Chan Chan, in the modern town of Trujillo.
Pakistan's minorities in crosshairs of latest violence in Quetta
Shia Hazaras and Christians have fallen victim to targeted killings and bombings in the city of Quetta.
by Asad Hashim
Muhammad Ali Rezai's light skin and facial features make him stand out from the crowd in the Pakistani city of Quetta. It is not often that one's face could be a death warrant.
For the last several years, he dedicated himself to working for the betterment of his persecuted community of Hazara Shia, of whom about 600,000 live in the southwestern Pakistani city.
The community - whose physical features make them easy targets - has been targeted in a sustained campaign of murders and bombings that has claimed at least 509 lives since 2013, according to Pakistan’s National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR).
The bizarre right-wing campaign to discredit striking Arizona teachers
Is it really a protest about school funding? Or do teachers have more sinister motives?
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The teachers striking in Arizona have been called Democratic operatives. Masterminds of a national socialist revolution. Architects of a plot to legalize marijuana.
The backlash is fiercer than in other states where teachers have protested or gone on strike. And the comments aren’t coming from the ideological fringes of the internet. State politicians, lawmakers, and journalists are making these accusations to discredit teachers who are demanding higher pay and more funding for public schools.
Thousands of teachers in Arizona walked out of class on Friday for the second day in a row to protest low pay and cuts to public education funding. Like the teachers who went on strike in West Virginia and Oklahoma, teachers in Arizona are among the lowest-paid in the country and have suffered some of the deepest cuts to public school funding — largely a result of steep Republican tax cuts that didn’t bring the promised economic windfall.
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