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Colombia to restart peace talks with ELN rebels
Colombia's government gave the green light on Friday to resume peace talks with the country's largest remaining rebel force, a key electoral promise that brought leftist President Gustavo Petro to power earlier this week. Prior talks failed to make it beyond the exploratory stage after right-wing former president Ivan Duque took power in August 2018.
US to boost Taiwan trade, conduct air, sea transits
The United States will boost trade with Taiwan in response to China's "provocative" behaviour, the White House said Friday, as it insisted on the right of air and sea passage through the tense strait. Campbell said that the United States would also reassert its right to use international air and sea space between Taiwan and China.
North Korea lifts mask mandate after Covid 'victory'
North Korea has lifted a mask mandate and eased other virus restrictions, state media said Saturday, days after leader Kim Jong Un declared "victory" over Covid-19. North Korea declared a "shining victory" over Covid earlier this week just months after announcing its first cases in May.
Venezuela's suicide epicenter battles further deaths
Henry La Cruz jumps off his motorbike, darts to a young man and grabs hold of him just before he leaps from a viaduct. "I jumped off the (motorbike), threw myself at him and grabbed him.
Taiwan's frontline islanders unfazed by beat of China war drum
Not far from the rusted-out tanks and anti-landing spikes that litter the beaches of the Taiwanese island where he lives, 92-year-old veteran Yang Yin-shih reads his newspaper in the shadow of the enemy that regularly adorns its pages.
February 14, 1989: The fatwa against Salman Rushdie
Friday's knife attack on Salman Rushdie comes more than 33 years after the fatwa against him by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in which he sentenced him to death. Until Friday's knife attack, he had very much resumed a normal life. ccd/jmy/br/kjm
At least 11 killed in Montenegro shooting
At least 11 people were killed during a mass shooting in Montenegro's central city of Cetinje on Friday, the country's public broadcaster said, in the deadliest violent incident to rock the Adriatic nation in years. "Eleven people were killed, while six were wounded, including a member of the police," Montenegro's public broadcaster RTCG said, adding that the shooter was included in the toll.
Rival sit-ins deepen Iraq political deadlock
Opponents of populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched their own Baghdad sit-in Friday, nearly two weeks after Sadr supporters stormed parliament and began an open-ended protest first inside, then outside the legislature. For nearly two weeks, his supporters have held daily sit-ins, first inside the legislature and later on its grounds.
US to boost Taiwan trade, conduct transits in straits
The United States is responding to China's "provocative" behavior on Taiwan by boosting trade with the democratically run island and insisting on right of air and sea passage through the tense straits, the White House said Friday. Campbell said that the United States will reassert its rights to use international air and sea space between Taiwan and China.
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