Day: January 6, 2018

SEOUL: The rival Koreas will sit down for their first formal talks in more than two years next week to find ways to cooperate on the Winter Olympics in the South and to improve their abysmal ties, Seoul officials said on Friday. While a positive sign after last year’s threats of nuclear war, the Koreas have a long history of failing to move past their deep animosity. The announcement came hours after the United States said it will delay annual military exercises with South Korea until after the Winter Olympics…

The release of a bombshell-filled book about Donald Trump’s first year in the White House on Friday sparked fresh debate about the president’s fitness for office, with the author claiming his closest aides “say he is like a child.” “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” was rushed into bookstores and onto e-book platforms four days ahead of schedule due to what its publisher called “unprecedented demand” — and after Trump’s bid to block it failed. The book — which has sent shockwaves across Washington — quickly sold out in…

MOSCOW: Russia accused the United States on Friday of interfering in Iranian affairs as the UN Security Council prepared to hold a meeting at Washington’s request on deadly protests in Iran. “The United States continues to interfere both openly and covertly in the internal affairs of other countries. They do so shamelessly,” Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. “This is how we view the American initiative to convene the UN Security Council over a situation that is of purely national concern in…