Turkey takes final step on Sweden's NATO membership
China, N Korea vice foreign ministers meet in Pyongyang
SEOUL, Jan 26: China's vice foreign minister was in Pyongyang on Friday for a meeting with his North Korean counterpart. China and Russia are North Korea's traditional allies, and Washington warned last year that military ties between Pyongyang and Moscow were "growing and dangerous". The United States has called on Beijing-the North's biggest economic benefactor-to restrain Pyongyang. "The Foreign Ministry delegation of the People's Republic of China, headed by Comrade Sun Weidong, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived in Pyongyang on the 25th," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said Friday. — AFP
S Korean president labels attack on MP act of 'terrorism'
SEOUL, Jan 26: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has called an attack by a minor against a ruling party lawmaker this week an act of "terrorism", his office said Friday. Lawmaker Bae Hyun-jin, 40, was attacked on Thursday by a minor who repeatedly struck her on the back of the head with a rock in Seoul's upscale Gangnam district. She has since been hospitalised and is recovering, after medical staff used a stapler to perform two sutures to treat a non-life-threatening, one-centimetre scalp injury, according to doctors who treated her. — AFP
Washington, Baghdad to discuss future of foreign troops in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Jan 26: The United States and Iraq said Thursday they will begin discussions on the future of American and other foreign troops in the country, with Baghdad expecting the talks to lead to a timeline for reducing their presence. Washington has forces in Iraq as part of the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, but the country's prime minister-whose government relies on the support of Iran-aligned parties-has called for the coalition to leave. AFP
Britain's King Charles III admitted to hospital for prostate surgery
News in Brief (2024-01-27)
FE Team | Published: January 26, 2024 23:16:47
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