SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean media have published photographs showing leader Kim Jong Un's portrait hanging prominently next to those of his father and grandfather, in an apparent push to solidify his status as a leader equal to his forebears.
The photographs appeared to be the first time state media was publishing his portrait hanging beside those of state founder Kim Il Sung and his late father Kim Jong Il, who ruled the nation until his sudden... (continue reading...)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the cancellation of another $7.7 billion in student debt for 160,000 borrowers, bringing the total number of people to benefit from his debt relief push to 4.75 million, despite Republican opposition.
Biden, keen to shore up waning support among young people ahead of the November presidential election, had pledged last year to find other avenues for tackling debt relief after the... (continue reading...)
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells apologised on Wednesday for the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters for shortfalls in their branch accounts that were caused by a faulty IT system.
"I am very, very sorry," she told the long-running public inquiry into one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice.
(Reporting by Paul Sandle and Muvija M; editing by Sarah Young)
MANILA (Reuters) - A senior Philippine navy official on Wednesday accused the Chinese embassy in Manila of recording a phone call without his consent and denied forging a deal with Beijing to deescalate tensions in the South China Sea.
Vice Admiral Alberto Carlos told a senate hearing he received a call from China's military attache in Manila in January when he was still commander of the military post overseeing the South China Sea, but said he did not... (continue reading...)
PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine le Pen on Wednesday said her party needed to make a "clean break" with the German Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, suggesting the AfD had become too toxic an ally ahead of European elections in June.
Speaking in a radio interview, Le Pen accused the AfD of being rudderless and in hock to radical elements within it.
"It was urgent to establish a cordon sanitaire," said le Pen on Europe... (continue reading...)
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