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US sanctions N Korean missile experts, Russia offers to mediate

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, Dec 27 (Reuters): The United States announced sanctions on two of North Korea's most prominent officials behind its ballistic missile programme on Tuesday, while Russia reiterated an offer to mediate to ease tension between Washington and Pyongyang.The new U.S. steps were the latest in a campaign aimed at forcing...

Pakistan mourns Benazir, 10 yrs after assassination

KARACHI, Dec 27 (AFP): Thousands of mourners visited the shrine of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto Wednesday as the country marked 10 years since her assassination, with her killers yet to face justice. An estimated 20,000 people gathered at the shrine in Garhi Khuda Baksh in the Bhutto family...

Leaders must use care on social media: Obama

LONDON, Dec 27: Former President Barack Obama told Prince Harry in an interview broadcast Wednesday that people in leadership roles must be careful in their use of social media and warned against spending too much time immersed in the internet at the expense of the world outside, report agencies.Obama did...

Myanmar court again remands Reuters journos

YANGON, Dec 27 (AFP): The detention of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar was extended for two more weeks, a court said Wednesday, in the pair's first public appearance since their December 12 arrest under a draconian colonial-era secrecy law.Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, -- Myanmar nationals who...

Medical evacuations begin from rebel-held town in Syria

DOUMA, Syria, Dec 27 (AFP): Aid workers have begun evacuating emergency medical cases from Syria's besieged rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, after months of waiting during which the United Nations said at least 16 people died.Families waited in the darkness in the rebel-held town...

Bosnian court jails woman for wartime torture

SARAJEVO, Dec 27 (AFP): A Bosnian court Wednesday sentenced a former Croat female soldier to 14 years in jail for crimes including torture, the heaviest sentence handed down against a woman for atrocities committed during Bosnia's 1990s conflict.Azra Basic, 58, was extradited to Bosnia in late 2016 by the United...

News in Brief -(28-12-2017)

Deal over 'comfort women' faulty: S Korea SEOUL, Dec 27: South Korea said Wednesday a 2015 deal intended to end a festering dispute with Japan over Tokyo's wartime sex slavery was faulty, reopening a historical wound as the two countries try to rein in North Korea. Seoul and Tokyo signed...