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North Korea Agrees to Shutter Missile Site

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09/19/2018

09/19/2018

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North Korea Agrees to Shutter Missile Site

Top News: During talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang, Kim agreed to visit Seoul “in the near future.” He would be the first North Korean head of state to visit the South Korean capital.

According to Moon, Kim also said the North would be willing to dismantle a key missile site under the watch of outside observers and said it would take steps toward denuclearization if Washington took “corresponding” measures.

The two leaders also discussed a joint bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics.

Pakistan: Islamabad’s high court suspended 10-year prison sentences for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam just two months in, as part of an appeals process over their conviction on corruption charges. The accusations center on the ownership of properties in central London tied to Sharif’s family.

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AFRICA

•  Islamist militants have killed hundreds of troops in Nigeria in recent weeks, Reuters reports.

•  Liberia is investigating the reported disappearance of $60 million worth of government bank notes.

•  Local drug gangs in South Africa and other poachers have harvested an estimated 96 million abalone sea snails since 2000, according to a report by Traffic, a conservation group.

AMERICAS

•  Bob Carey, who served as a director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement under former U.S. President Barack Obama, told the Guardian that “people will die” because of the Trump administration’s decision to slash refugee resettlement.

•  CADE, Brazil’s antitrust watchdog, began investigating whether the country’s largest banks improperly cornered the cryptocurrency trade.

•  The top forensics official in the Mexican state of Jalisco was sacked for storing some 150 unclaimed bodies in a trailer because morgues were at capacity. Luis Octavio Cotero, the official in question, said he’d been made a scapegoat by the state government.

ASIA

•  Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested Wednesday over allegations that he siphoned money from a state investment fund.

•  Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said China would not consider “competitive devaluation” of its exchange rate as part of its escalating trade dispute with the United States.

•  More than 20 containers of Australian strawberries were found to have been contaminated with hidden needles.

EUROPE

•  U.S. President Donald Trump said he was considering building a military base in Poland. “I hope that we will build Fort Trump in Poland together, Mr. President,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday.

•  Thomas Borgen—the head of Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest lender—stepped down amid what the Financial Times called “one of the largest money laundering scandals ever seen.” The bank said it allowed more than $230 billion in suspicious funds pass through its Estonian branch.

•  Tetragnatha spiders, which construct extensive nests for mating, built a 1,000-foot web near a lagoon in Aitoliko, Greece. “The spiders will have their party and will soon die,” biologist Maria Chatzaki said.

MIDDLE EAST

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•  Some 5 million children are now at risk of famine in Yemen, according to Save the Children.

•  Yemen’s Central Bank nearly doubled its interest rate.

•  A court in Turkey jailed 24 people for protesting working conditions at a new airport under construction in Istanbul.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Pyeongyang Press Corps/Pool/Getty Images)

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