DMZ’s image more associated with ‘war’ this year than last year:...
Demilitarized Zone(Yonhap)The image of the Demilitarized Zone separating South and North Korea is associated more with war this year than last year, a local...
Argentine creator of Mafalda cartoon strip dies
BUENOS AIRES - Argentine cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado, who created the beloved comic strip Mafalda, has died aged 88, his publisher announced Wednesday. Under...
Korea to expand support to developing nations for virus prevention: PM
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun (Yonhap)Korea plans to boost its support for developing countries as part of Seoul's contribution to the international fight against...
Israel passes law to limit protests during ‘virus emergency’
JERUSALEM - Israel's parliament approved a law early Wednesday restricting demonstrations as part of a coronavirus-related state of emergency, that critics say is aimed...
NSC vows efforts to find facts on N. Korea’s killing of...
Suh Hoon, director of national security at Cheong Wa Dae (Yonhap)South Korea's top national security officials expressed their deep condolences Tuesday over a government...
Germany puts first auto boss on trial over ‘dieselgate’
MUNICH (GERMANY) - Five years after "dieselgate" emissions cheating revelations rocked the car industry, ex-Audi CEO Rupert Stadler on Wednesday becomes the first top...
Civil servant likely to have attempted defection to North: Coast Guard
Yoon Seong-hyun, Coast Guard chief of the investigation team, briefs the media on the investigation on Tuesday. YonhapA South Korean civil servant killed by...
Kuwait’s emir Sheikh Sabah dies at age 91
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the architect of the nation's modern foreign policy and mediator in some of the worst...
NK continues illicit coal exports: UN experts
(Yonhap)North Korea continued illicit maritime exports of coal and imports of petroleum products despite having stopped most trade due to the spread of COVID-19,...
Faster tests unveiled as virus deaths pass one million
GENEVA: Coronavirus tests that deliver results in 15-30 minutes are to be rolled out across the United States and in scores of poorer countries,...
