SEOUL (Reuters) – A U.S. envoy on North Korea is to visit South Korea, officials said on Wednesday, as Washington and Pyongyang struggle to find a breakthrough in their stalled talks aimed at ending the North’s nuclear program. Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special representative for North Korea, is scheduled to arrive in the South Korean […]

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The man charged with impaired driving in a horrific crash on Highway 401 that claimed the lives of a mother and her five-year-old daughter in the summer of 2017 has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Sarah Payne, 42, and her daughter Freya, 5, died after a pickup truck crossed the 401 into the […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel offered to resign on Tuesday after socialists and greens tabled a motion of no confidence in his minority government. Michel relaunched his government a week ago as a minority administration after the Flemish N-VA, the biggest party in his coalition, quit in protest at his support of […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $3.5 billion sale of Patriot air and missile defense systems to Turkey, the Pentagon said on Tuesday after notifying Congress of the certification. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the State Department had approved the sale of 80 Patriot guidance-enhanced missiles and 60 other […]

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A month-long worker’s strike and protests in Chile’s flagship port of Valparaiso turned increasingly violent and spread to other ports along the nation’s Pacific coast early on Tuesday, complicating fruit exports at the start of summer. Workers in Valparaiso, a key port for fruit shipments, first walked off the job in mid-November, […]

It’s a sight that impresses as soon as visitors walk into Tony van den Camp’s family room: his annual Christmas village, stretching wall to wall over several tables. “Oh Tony, this is incredible!” neighbour Kay McKenzie said. Van den Camp has no idea how many figures and scenes he’s got in his display, but he […]

Al Jazeera speaks to Abdul Aziz Muhamat, who has been held captive on the island by Australia for over five years. The critically ill refugees held by Australia in Papua New Guinea will have to wait until next year for any chance of getting treatment in Australia after MPs failed last week to pass legislation […]

The US State Department is yet to respond to several requests for a waiver, including by CAIR. Two-year-old Abdullah Hassan is dying in a California hospital, but his Yemeni mother cannot travel to the United States to say goodbye to him. The Trump administration’s travel ban on the citizens of five Muslim-majority countries is preventing […]

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