South Korean media say President Moon Jae-in will send an envoy to North Korea next week for talks on a nuclear standoff and to set up a summit planned for next month.   There has been growing worry over the slow pace of getting North Korea to end its nuclear program following President Donald Trump’s landmark summit with North Korean ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has chosen former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to be the world body’s new human rights chief. She replaced Jordan’s outspoken Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, who is stepping down at the end of the month after a four-year term in the Geneva-based job.   Bachelet, a victim of torture under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, was conservative Chile’s ...

An Afghan official says a roadside bomb has killed five border police and wounded four others in eastern Nangarhar province. A vehicle carrying the officers struck the mine in Achin District on Thursday, police officer Qais Saifi told The Associated Press on Friday.   No one immediately took responsibility but Saifi blamed the Islamic State group, saying they regularly plant ...

Thousands of Pakistan’s hard-line Islamists have called off their rally after reaching near Islamabad following the cancellation of a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest by a Dutch anti-Muslim lawmaker. The far-right opposition politician Geert Wilders said Thursday he canceled the cartoon contest following death threats and concerns other people could be put at risk.   The decision prompted Khadim Hussain Rizvi, ...

A Mexican television reporter was shot dead Wednesday in the resort city of Cancun, becoming the eighth journalist to be killed this year in a country notoriously dangerous for the media. Javier Enrique Rodriguez Valladares worked as a cameraman and reporter for Canal 10.   The station said his family had confirmed his death.   The government of Quintana Roo ...

Nairobi, Aug 30 : British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday became the first UK leader to visit Kenya in 30 years, bringing security and development funding to East Africa’s commercial hub and neighboring Somalia as Britain seeks to boost economic ties ahead of a bumpy exit from the European Union in March. May met with President Uhuru Kenyatta on ...

Panasonic’s booth at the 2018 IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin (collected photo) Panasonic plans to move its European headquarters from Britain to the Netherlands later this year over concerns about potential tax issues related to Brexit, a company spokeswoman said Thursday. “We will move our European headquarters to the Netherlands,” the spokeswoman told AFP, confirming a report in the ...

A council worker accused of taking money intended for victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster has been charged with fraud. Jenny McDonagh, 39, is alleged to have obtained the cash “while being neither a survivor or bereaved family member”, Scotland Yard said. The Kensington and Chelsea Council employee was charged with four offences, including money laundering. She is due to ...

It might sound like pie in the sky, but Japan’s government is banking on a future with flying cars, launching an initiative Wednesday with the private sector to develop futuristic vehicles.   The initiative aims to draw up a roadmap by the end of the year on commercialising flying cars, a concept that so far remains largely theoretical.  Japanese government ...

Mexico’s first leftist-majority Congress was sworn in Wednesday, swept into office on the coattails of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a July election that punished the country’s political establishment. Cheering and chanting Lopez Obrador’s name, lawmakers from the coalition led by his recently founded party, Morena, took the oath of office in the lower house — where they will ...