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Kim Jong Un Departs North Korea for Second Summit with Trump

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02/25/2019

02/25/2019

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Kim Jong Un Departs North Korea for Second Summit with Trump

Top News: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un departed his country by train, heading for Vietnam, where he will meet with President Donald Trump for a second summit scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in Hanoi.

Trump on Sunday appeared to lower expectations of what would come out of the summit. “I’m not in a rush, I don’t want to rush anybody, I just don’t want testing. As long as there’s no testing, we’re happy,” he said.

In the months following the first summit between the two leaders last June, experts say Pyongyang has made little progress on its pledge to denuclearize.

Sudan: Sudan faced another wave of demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir after he declared a state of emergency on Friday. Bashir, who first came to power in 1989, has faced protests since December.

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AFRICA

•  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he is setting up a special tribunal to fast-track corruption cases.

•  Libya’s state oil firm said the country’s largest oil field remains closed due to the presence of an armed group.

•  Senegalese President Macky Sall claims he has won re-election but the opposition says preliminary results show a runoff vote is inevitable.

AMERICAS

•  A bipartisan group of nearly 60 former senior national security figures issued a statement saying there is “no factual basis” for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.

•  Venezuelan soldiers who have defected to Colombia amid the country’s political crisis fear for the safety of their families.

•  Some 2,000 people attended the funeral service of seven children who died in a fire in Halifax, Canada. The children came from a family of Syrian refugees.

ASIA

•  Trump said he would delay imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods following progress in bilateral trade talks.

•  Bangladeshi special forces shot and killed a man attempting to hijack a plane. All 148 passengers and crew on the flight from Bangladesh to Dubai are safe.

•  At least 130 people died after consuming toxic bootleg alcohol in northeast India.

EUROPE

•  At a Catholic Church summit on sex abuse, Pope Francis compared abuse of children to human sacrifice.

•  Early election results in Moldova indicate a hung parliament between parties more aligned with the West and those more aligned with Russia.

•  Thousands of people marched in Moscow to honor Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Princess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud will become the next Saudi ambassador to the United States--the first woman in the role.

•  The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by the United States and fighting the Islamic State, transferred 280 Iraqi and foreign detainees to Iraq.

•  The next round of peace talks between the United States and the Taliban are expected to begin in Qatar this week.

- By Robbie Gramer

(Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty Images)

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