Japan urges caution on any North Korea agreement
Defence minister Itsunori Onodera says sanctions on Pyongyang should stay in place, citing previous violations.
Japan's defense minister has urged the international community to keep sanctions and surveillance on North Korea, saying it has a history of reneging on agreements.
Itsunori Onodera said North Korea agreed to give up nuclear weapons as early as 1994, but has continued to develop them in secret and until last year threatened surrounding countries with a series of ballistic missile launches.
"In light of how North Korea has behaved in the past, I believe that it is important not to reward North Korea solely for agreeing to have a dialogue," he said.
'Claudia was a good girl. Why did they kill her?' From a Guatemalan village to death in Texas
by Nina Lakhani in San Juan Ostuncalco and Tom Dart in Rio Bravo
When Claudia Gómez was a little girl she would climb fruit trees for cherries and apricots, and chase her friends through the lush corn fields scattered across the hills of their village in western Guatemala.
Her family remember her as a warm-hearted and mischievous girl who was riveted by mathematics from an early age, and who would sing to her two younger sisters as she braided their long black hair.
“My daughter was naughty and cuddly and playful. She loved to draw and sing,” said Lidia González, 39, who was wrapped in a traditional woven shawl and headscarf against the chilly night at the family home.
US defense chief Jim Mattis rebukes Chinese 'intimidation' in South China Sea
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis has issued a sharp criticism of Beijing's actions in the South China Sea. He accused China of "intimidation and coercion" by placing weapons on manmade islands in the disputed waterway.
Beijing's military buildup in the South China Sea calls into question its broader goals in the region, the US secretary of defense told a high-profile international security forum on Saturday.
Jim Mattis said Beijing had recently deployed hardware including anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles and electronic jammers as well as landed bomber aircraft in contested areas.
"Despite China's claims to the contrary, the placement of these weapon systems is tied directly to military use for the purposes of intimidation and coercion," Mattis told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
Venezuela releases dozens of anti-Maduro activists
Dozens of activists in Venezuela who government opponents considered political prisoners were released from jail Friday in what authorities called a gesture aimed at uniting the fractured nation.
Among the 39 prisoners set free under strict conditions was Daniel Ceballos, who had been detained for four years for promoting protests as mayor of the western city of San Cristobal, according to Venezuela's Supreme Court.
President Nicolas Maduro said after being re-elected May 20 in a contested victory that chief among his conciliatory measures would be releasing prisoners jailed for acts against the government.
Israeli forces kill medic, wound 100 protesters in Gaza unrest, Palestinian ministry says
By Ian Lee, CNN
Israeli soldiers on Friday killed one Palestinian and injured at least a hundred others protesting in Gaza along the fence that separates the territory from Israel, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The person killed was identified as medical nurse Razan Ashraf Al Najjar, 20, ministry officials said.
WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, described Najjar as a "volunteering paramedic," and said she was killed by Israeli snipers while providing first aid to injured protesters at the fence east of Khan Younes, in southern Gaza.
JUST DAYS BEFORE the 2016 presidential election, hackers identified by the National Security Agency as working for Russia attempted to breach American voting systems. Among their specific targets were the computers of state voting officials, which they had hoped to compromise with malware-laden emails, according to an intelligence report published previously by The Intercept.
Now we know what those emails looked like.
An image of the malicious email, provided to The Intercept in response to a public records request in North Carolina, reveals precisely how hackers, who the NSA believed were working for Russian military intelligence, impersonated a Florida-based e-voting vendor and attempted to trick its customers into opening malware-packed Microsoft Word files.
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