What could North Korea's 'Christmas gift' to the US be?
Updated 1138 GMT (1938 HKT) December 15, 2019
We're back in familiar territory. North Korea is again issuing cryptic threats that officials around the world are scrambling to decipher.
A so-called "Christmas gift" for the United States, a year-end deadline and a new path have all been mooted by the Kim Jong Un regime in the past 12 months.
Kim and Trump have met three times in the hopes of striking a deal that would see North Korea trade its nuclear weapons and the missiles used to fire them in exchange for sanctions relief and normalized relations.
Children of the revolution: the Hong Kong youths ready to 'sacrifice everything'
More than 900 minors have been arrested in pro-democracy protests. They say it’s their ‘responsibility to do something’
Twelve-year-old Samuel was arrested one summer evening while trying to flee from riot police at a protest. He was tackled to the ground, sat on and handcuffed by officers and accused of taking part in an illegal assembly. During the arrest, an officer stepped on his hand.
In custody, Samuel was terrified. Police found in his bag a gas mask, helmet, spray paint and gloves. Officers shouted at him and called him a “junior cockroach”, a name used to put down protesters.
“I was so frightened and thought they might beat me to death,” he said. It was nearly midnight, several hours after his arrest, when police notified his parents and sent him to a hospital for his injuries.
‘Our community was dying out’: Yazidis struggle to find an identity in post-Soviet Georgian landscape
Having been dangerously close to losing their presence in Georgian society, Yazidi leaders are coming together to protect the faith, finds Lemma Shehadi in Tbilisi
After a lull during Soviet times, and ostracised due to Christianity’s dominance, the Yazidi faith is now attempting to re-establish itself in the fabric of Georgian life.
“Back then, we didn’t need religion. Our god was Lenin,” says Sheikh Nuri Shekhnamati, a priest at the Quba Sultan Ezid, a Yazidi temple in the capital Tbilisi.
“People were more humane. With today’s wild capitalism we struggle to live day by day. The time came for religion. Religion can help. Everyone needs some kind of spirituality,” he adds.
'Planetary Emergency'The Time to Save the Climate Is Now
A report recently released by the UN strongly suggests that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could be impossible to achieve. Researchers are now warning of a tipping point in the fight against climate change.
By Marco Evers
There is no longer any doubt: The pace of climate change is accelerating. Of the 20 hottest years measured since records began, 19 have occurred since 2000. The top five were the last five years.
Summer 2019 saw a new temperature record set in Germany of 42.6 degrees Celsius (108 degrees Fahrenheit) and 46 degrees in France. Preliminary findings indicate that the world experienced its warmest average temperatures ever during the months of June, July, September and October of this year.
New Zealand volcano: Minute's silence to mark one week after eruption
A minute's silence will be observed in New Zealand on Monday to mark one week since the deadly eruption of White Island volcano.
The tribute will be held at 14:11 local time (01:11 GMT), the exact moment of the eruption.
Sixteen deaths have been confirmed while two bodies are still missing, believed to be in the water off the island.
About 20 people remain in intensive care with severe burns.
On Sunday, teams returned to White Island, also known by its Maori name of Whakaari, and divers searched the water but, again, were unable to locate the missing bodies.
U.K. election: How Boris Johnson's Conservatives won Labour's 'red wall' heartlands
"I've always voted Labour before but I’m pleased we have a Conservative member of Parliament because now we can get on with Brexit," one local said.
By Alexander Smith
Standing outside his local pub in this seemingly forgotten English town, John Puntis is discussing his family history. It's a story that goes some way to explain the earthquake that just reshaped the political landscape across the United Kingdom.
On Friday, the country awoke to Prime Minister Boris Johnson winning a resounding victory in the nationwide general election. His Conservative Party flipped dozens of seats that for decades had been considered untouchable bastions of the left-wing Labour Party.
That shift appears partly due to people like Puntis. Like his father and grandfather before him, he was once a diehard Labour-voting miner before the local coal mines closed in the 1980s.
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