| Peruvian prosecutors seek arrest of two men in lynching of Canadian Posted: 23 Apr 2018 12:23 PM PDT  Prosecutors in Peru have asked a judge to order the arrest of two men in connection with the lynching of a Canadian man in a remote Amazonian village last week, a spokesman for the attorney general's office said on Monday. Sebastian Woodroffe, a 41-year-old Canadian citizen, was beaten and strangled with a rope in the jungle region of Ucayali on Friday after members of an indigenous community accused him of killing a revered medicine woman. A cellphone video recording from the lynching showed two men tugging at a rope around Woodroffe's neck before he goes limp.
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| Shania Twain Has Apologized After Saying She Would Have Voted for President Trump Posted: 23 Apr 2018 10:32 AM PDT  The Canadian singer told the Guardian the U.S. President "seemed honest"
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| Armenian PM Sarksyan quits after 11 days of street protests Posted: 23 Apr 2018 09:29 AM PDT  By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan said on Monday he was resigning to help safeguard civic peace following almost two weeks of mass street protests that have plunged the impoverished ex-Soviet republic into political crisis. Sarksyan, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had served as Armenia's president for a decade until this month and had faced accusations of clinging to power when parliament elected him as prime minister last week. Pressure on the 63-year-old to quit had increased sharply on Monday when unarmed soldiers in the capital Yerevan joined the anti-government protests, which first erupted on April 13.
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| China says 32 nationals killed when bus falls off bridge in North Korea Posted: 23 Apr 2018 06:09 AM PDT  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans died when a bus crashed off a bridge in North Korea, China's foreign ministry said on Monday, with two Chinese nationals in critical condition. Chinese tourists make up about 80 percent of all foreign visitors to North Korea, says a South Korean think-tank, the Korea Maritime Institute, which estimates that tourism generates revenue of about $44 million each year for the isolated country. Chinese diplomats visited the scene of Sunday's crash in North Hwanghae province, the foreign ministry said.
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| Korean Air heiresses to resign as smuggle probe widens Posted: 23 Apr 2018 03:06 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Korean Air Lines said Monday that two daughters of its chairman will resign from their executive positions amid mounting public criticism over the women's behavior and allegations that the family engaged in smuggling.
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| China's 'men only' job culture slammed in new report Posted: 23 Apr 2018 01:21 AM PDT  Leading Chinese firms including e-commerce giant Alibaba were heavily criticised Monday for gender discrimination in job adverts in a new report which said the landscape for the female workforce in China was deteriorating. The report by campaign group Human Rights Watch, entitled "Only Men Need Apply: Gender Discrimination in Job Advertisements in China", details a host of offences by private companies and public bodies, from issuing "men only" job ads to requests for women applicants to be "trim" and "aesthetically pleasing". According to the report, discrimination in hiring practices is contributing to a drop in the female workforce and a widening gender pay gap.
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| 10 Things to Know for Monday Posted: 22 Apr 2018 07:59 PM PDT  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday: 1. MANHUNT ON FOR GUNMAN IN NASHVILLE CARNAGE Travis Reinking, 29, killed four people and injured ...
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| US envoy: Trump leads on N. Korea as G7 ministers meet Posted: 22 Apr 2018 07:12 PM PDT  CHARLEVOIX, Quebec (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Canada said Sunday that President Donald Trump is leading international efforts to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
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| Donald Trump says North Korea crisis is 'long way from conclusion' Posted: 22 Apr 2018 04:03 PM PDT  Donald Trump moved on Sunday to dampen heightened expectations of a rapid nuclear deal with North Korea, saying that the crisis was far from conclusion. Excitement at the prospect of an end to tensions with the nuclear-armed state have risen ever since Mr Trump stunned the world by accepting an invitation to meet Kim Jong-un, the country's leader. On Saturday, Pyongyang announced it was suspending weapons tests and closing its nuclear testing site. But a day later the American president sounded an uncharacteristic note of caution on Twitter. ....We are a long way from conclusion on North Korea, maybe things will work out, and maybe they won't - only time will tell....But the work I am doing now should have been done a long time ago!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2018 It was a marked turnaround from his earlier claim of victory. "Wow, we haven't given up anything & they have agreed to denuclearisation (so great for World), site closure, & no more testing," was his immediate response. In fact, Kim's announcement – read on television by North Korea's state news agency - did not include a promise to rid his country of existing nuclear weapons and analysts remain doubtful that he would ever give up the missiles that he believes guarantee the survival of his regime. North Korea's suspension of missile tests raises unrealistic expectations His comments reportedly surprised White House officials, who had expected some kind of confidence-building words before the planned summit but did not know when they would come or how far they would go. They expressed scepticism to The Washington Post, suggesting Kim was offering modest pledges that could be rapidly reversed to create the "illusion" that he was open to negotiation. Regional experts suggested Mr Trump would do well to point out that North Korea was unlikely to give up its weapons easily after spending decades developing a nuclear deterrent. Nam Sung-wook, a professor of North Korean Studies at Korea University in Seoul, said: "North Korea has a long history of raising the issue of denuclearisation and has committed to freeze its nuclear weapons programmes in the past. "We all remember how those pledges and commitments went down over past decades." North Korea's nuclear history: key moments Either way, the current rapprochement marks a stark change from last year when the two leaders swapped insults and threatened war.
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