South Korea's Moon Jae-In heads to US as North threat grows
South Korea began developing Hyunmoo-2 after a 2012 agreement with its US ally to increase the range of its weapons by 497 miles and raise the warhead limit to 1,102 pounds. On Friday, a spokesman of the North's Foreign Ministry issued a statement denying that Warmbier had been abused or tortured. Korean President Jae In Moon says the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships could represent the start of future unification in the Korean Peninsula .
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Trump claims Obama 'knew of election meddling by Russia'
In December, Obama said the compounds were 'used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes'. The president has been quick to defend himself against any allegations suggesting his personal involvement with Russian Federation in terms of the election, tweeting that after months of investigation, there has been no evidence of "collusion".
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Chicago Dyke March hits back at antisemitism claims after banning Jewish flags
The organizers of the march, which is separate from Chicago's Pride Parade, defended their decision by issuing this statement on Twitter, declaring that the Jewish star on the rainbow flag exclusively represented the nation of Israel, not the symbol for Judaism.
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Trump Meets Modi: America First meets India First
There has not been a single case of corruption in the past 3 years. Speaking at the roundtable, he said: "The whole world is looking at India . Days before the Modi-Trump meeting, the Trump administration authorized the sale of unarmed surveillance drones to India. "The meeting between the two leaders is very significant, obviously, because the new administration's policies towards Asia and particularly India are not very clear", said Sujit Datta, foreign policy specialist at New ...
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Modi given warm welcome by Indians in US
Trump's protectionist instincts, however, are at odds with India's efforts to boost exports and encourage Western manufacturers to " Make In India " - a flagship Modi scheme. "I think it's a bit unfair". President Trump had called for the H-1B visa system to be reformed to reduce trade deficit with India and recently complained that India had negotiated for a huge aid during the Paris Talks.
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Republicans Scramble to Shore Up Support for Healthcare Bill
In the narrowly divided Senate , defections from just three of the 52 Republican senators would doom the legislation. Erasing Obama's law has been a marquee pledge for Trump and virtually the entire party for years, and failure would be a shattering defeat for the GOP.
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Israel to Invest in India Link on Eve of Modi Visit
Given Goa's strong cultural and historic connection with Portugal, Modi's visit, the first leg of his three-nation tour that will also take him to the USA and the Netherlands, is significant. "India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries". Political analyst Ashley Tellis said in an interview with Asian Age that the meeting with Trump would give Modi "an opportunity to take the measure of the man, ...
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McEnroe says Williams would be ranked 'like 700' on men's tour
Although McEnroe has no doubt Williams is the best female player, he doesn't think she would fare well competing against men. "If she played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world", McEnroe said , as transcribed by For The Win's Luke Kerr-Dineen.
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Trump calls Modi 'true friend', ahead of meet
President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would seem to be kindred spirits. Therefore, it would not be unlikely if Modi broaches the subject with Donald Trump during the meet. Aware of the new Trump administration's emphasis on the economy, Modi in his commentary first touched upon the enormous economic opportunities that Asia's third-largest economy presented to the US.
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Travel ban, church-state case await action by Supreme Court
To be clear, it's too early to say just yet whether Kennedy will actually decide to say goodbye to serving on the high court. Justice Kennedy, who turns 81 next month and has been on the court for almost 30 years, gathered with his clerks over the weekend for a reunion that was pushed up a year.
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Ivanka Trump acknowledges disagreements with her father
Ivanka Trump was asked in an interview with " Fox & Friends" to grade her father's presidency. So I give him my open and candid feedback. She also denied any involvement in the Us Weekly article that came out saying that she and her father disagreed on his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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In China : Landslide rescuers ordered to evacuate: state media
Authorities at the scene said on Sunday that 10 bodies had been confirmed recovered. Al Jazeera's Florence Loi, reporting from a location close to the Xinmo village, said the area had been struck by a massive natural disaster in 2008, which killed almost 90,000 people.








