By Hyeyoon Cho
SEOUL, Aug 16 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed the deepening of ties with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang marked the anniversary of independence from Japan's colonial rule, KCNA state news agency said on Sunday.
Kim was replying to a message of congratulations from Putin marking Saturday's 81st anniversary of Tokyo's surrender in World War Two. The Russian leader said... (continue reading...)
SYDNEY, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Australia's New South Wales state will start a gun buyback in November, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday, part of the national response to a shooting spree that killed 15 at a Jewish festival in Sydney, the state capital.
Albanese's centre-left government enacted laws in January for the gun buyback, tighter checks for gun licences and a crackdown on hate in the wake of the December 14 gun attack at a Bondi... (continue reading...)
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Palantir chair and co-founder Peter Thiel has bought a 1% stake in Argentina's Vista, one of the largest oil companies operating in the country's Vaca Muerta shale formation, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The filing, published on Friday, comes four months after the tech billionaire met with Argentine President Javier Milei in the presidential palace, after which Milei told a local... (continue reading...)
Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russian forces launched a missile attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in at least two districts of Ukraine's capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The city's military administration said one person had been injured.
Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said falling debris had caused a fire in a non-residential part of a northern suburb.
Several cars were on fire, and another... (continue reading...)
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Powerful storms and floods have killed at least six people in Indiana, including a 4-year-old boy, state officials said on Saturday.
• In addition to the boy, three females and two males have died since the storm system started on Tuesday, the Indiana State Emergency Operations Center said.
• Two deaths took place in Delaware County and one each in Jennings County, Lake County, Porter County and... (continue reading...)
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