Trump confirms second summit with Kim Jong-un will be in Vietnam within weeks
The meeting between leaders of US and North Korea is expected to take place in either Danang or Hanoi on 27-28 February
The meeting between leaders of US and North Korea is expected to take place in either Danang or Hanoi on 27-28 February
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are to hold their second summit in Vietnam at the end of February, the US president has confirmed.
In his state of the union speech to Congress, Trump repeated an earlier claim to averted a major with his Korean diplomacy.
“If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea,” he declared.
A safer internet and the stupid things we do online
You don't have to be savvy to be safe online. Just sensible. Avoid doing these 5 things, ranked by their increasing stupidity.
Be sensible online, avoid a few stupid pitfalls, and a safer internet will be within everyone's grasp.
5) The abandoned-phone toilet-dash
Ever felt that bursting urge for the loo on a plane? But you can't go because all the toilets are occupied? So you fiddle with your phone for distraction. And then as soon as a toilet becomes free, you swiftly throw your phone into the netting on the back of the seat in front, or into that charging cradle on long-haul flights, and make a glorious dash for liberty.
But you forget to lock the screen.
City of Qom: Iranian blend of revolution and modernity
In the religious capital of Iran, the Islamic revolution still holds a powerful sway even as once-unthinkable signs of modernity creep into the city of Qom to challenge the faithful.
Qom, a couple of hours drive south of Tehran, is one of Shiite Islam's holiest sites, home to dozens of seminaries and many of its most prominent clerics, known as "sources of emulation".
It was here that the first tremors of the Islamic revolution were felt, back in 1963, when a rising star of the clerical establishment, Ruhollah Khomeini, made a fiery speech attacking the shah over his US-backed reform programme.
A year later, Ayatollah Khomeini gave another speech from his home against the granting of diplomatic immunity to US military personnel -- which he said reduced "the Iranian people to a level lower than that of an American dog".
'Why did they put chains on me? I'm not an animal': Hakeem al-Araibi speaks from prison
Hakeem al-Araibi has begged from his prison cell for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to keep fighting for him and persuade the Thai government to release him rather than send him to Bahrain.
Thai authorities have now tightened access to the refugee footballer, who has been in the Bangkok Remand Centre for about two months, and he is allowed few visitors.
However the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age again gained access to Araibi on Tuesday, a day after he appeared in a Bangkok court to formally oppose Bahrain’s request to extradite him.
Cambodia 'fails' acid attack victims even with tougher penalties
Government ended years of indifference to victims' plight with tough law in 2012, but enforcement is lacking, HRW says.
On a March evening in 2017, Sorn Chanty was returning home from beauty school in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, when a man ran at her, grabbed her bag and threw acid in her face.
When an ambulance eventually arrived, the crew told the 24-year-old, who was screaming, to get inside but refused to drive her to the hospital or perform first-aid procedures.
Once her ex-boyfriend came to the scene, the crew agreed to take her to hospital but Chanty said when they got there, the driver refused to let her out of the vehicle until her former partner had paid $30.
Politicians show ignorance in attacks on women for not having children
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso has come under fire for criticizing women who have not given birth to children, as if to claim that such people are to blame for the declining birthrate.
However, Aso is not the only politician who has made such remarks. Politicians' simplistic view that the declining birthrate would be solved if only people of so-called "childrearing generations" stopped complaining and had children has been heard repeatedly over the years.
Aso made the remarks in question during a briefing session on national politics to his constituents in the town of Ashiya in the southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka on Feb. 3. In talking about the government's policy of reforming the social security system to cover all generations, taking the low birthrate and aging population into consideration, Aso mentioned the drastic increase in the average lifespan in postwar Japan.
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