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South Korea To Propose Joint Olympics With North At Summit: Minister - Dotemirates
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12/09/2018

South Korea To Propose Joint Olympics With North At Summit: Minister

Seoul, South Korea: South Korea plans to propose a joint hosting of the 2032 Summer Olympics with North Korea at next week's summit in Pyongyang, sports minister Do Jong-hwan said Wednesday, according to a Yonhap report.Do will make the proposal when he accompanies President Moon Jae-in to the North Korean capital for a third summit with Kim Jong Un from Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said."I plan to make this proposal to the North for the settlement of peace" on the Korean peninsula, he was quoted as telling journalists in Tokyo."Seoul and Pyongyang would co-host the games", he said.The...

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18/02/2019

Anthony Weiner leaves prison for halfway house in Brooklyn

Ex-New York congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison after serving about 15 months for sending explicit messages to a minor.Weiner has been transferred to a halfway house in Brooklyn where he will remain under supervision for the rest of his sentence, prison records show.The 54-year-old was sentenced to 21 months in jail in September 2017.He had pleaded guilty to exchanging sexually explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina.Weiner, who is scheduled to be released on 14 May, was once a rising Democratic star. He quit Congress in 2011 after a graphic image sent from his...
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18/02/2019

New Zealand To Target Internet Giants With Digital Tax

Wellington: New Zealand said on Monday that it plans to update its laws so it can tax revenue earned by multinational digital firms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon, extending a global effort to bring global tech giants into the tax net.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the cabinet had agreed to issue a discussion document about how to update the country's tax framework to ensure multinational companies pay their fair share."Our current tax system is not fair in the way it treats individual tax payers, and how it treats multinationals," Ardern told reporters at her weekly post-cabinet news conference.Highly digitalised...
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NDTV
18/02/2019

"Can't Say No To Pakistan," Saudi Crown Prince Told Imran Khan

Islamabad: On his first visit to Pakistan after becoming Crown Prince of Saudi, Mohammad bin Salman asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to consider him the ambassador of Pakistan in his country when asked to extend help to Pak labourers in Saudi."We can't say no to Pakistan," Mohammad bin Salman, also known as MBS, told Imran Khan when he asked him to extend help to the 2.5 million Pak labourers who undergo hardships while working in Saudi Arabia. Mr Salman said he will do everything he can to deliver that.Imran Khan had put forward a request to the crown prince to...
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Deccan Chronicle
18/02/2019

North Korea air traffic blocked by US ahead of Trump summit: Report

Montreal/Seoul: The United States has blocked efforts by a UN agency to improve civil aviation in North Korea at a time when Pyongyang is trying to reopen part of its airspace to foreign flights, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The US move is part of a negotiating tactic to maintain sanctions pressure on North Korea, one of the sources said, ahead of a second summit between President Donald Trump and leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in late February. Washington is seeking concrete commitments from Pyongyang at the summit to abandon its nuclear and missile programmes. The...
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Arab News
18/02/2019

Envoy: US working to consult allies on Syria

MUNICH: The US envoy for Syria said his country’s withdrawal from Syria will not be “abrupt” and that Washington is working to ensure allies don’t feel “under-consulted.”President Donald Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of Syria angered some allies, confounded US military officials and prompted Jim Mattis to resign as defense secretary.Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, US envoy James Jeffrey said the Trump administration has told allies “continuously since mid-December that ... this is not going to be an abrupt or a rapid withdrawal. It’s going to be an orderly, step-by-step withdrawal.”Jeffrey added: “We are consulting...
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US general in Iraq to focus on final push against Daesh

BAGHDAD: The general overseeing US forces in the Middle East flew into Iraq on Sunday for talks with US and Iraqi officials expected to focus on ensuring that Daesh cannot stage a resurgence after US troops withdraw from neighboring Syria.US Army General Joseph Votel, head of the US Central Command, made no remarks to reporters upon landing in Iraq, where he was expected to get battlefield briefings on the final push to retake the remnants of Daesh’s once vast territory in Syria.Votel was also expected to discuss with officials in Baghdad what impact the US withdrawal might have on Iraq,...
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