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S. Korea seeks to boost slow Olympic ticket sales

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — With five months to go before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics open, the games are barely an afterthought for most South Koreans, with slow local ticket sales amid...

UN Security Council to Discuss Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugee Crisis

UNITED NATIONS / GENEVA — The United Nations Security Council is holding an urgent meeting this week on continuing violence in western Myanmar that has forced 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to...

N. Korea Slams New UN Sanctions, Warns US of ‘Greatest Pain’

UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL — North Korea strongly criticized Tuesday the U.N. Security Council's decision to impose tough new sanctions against the East Asian nation, and warned the United States would experience the...

Florida Keys Could Be Cut Off for Weeks by Hurricane Damage

WASHINGTON — Residents of the Florida Keys may be unable to go home for weeks, to see for themselves the havoc left by Hurricane Irma. The Keys were the first part of Florida...

Peru Expelling North Korean Ambassador Over Nuclear Program

LIMA — Peru said on Monday that it was expelling North Korea's ambassador over the country's refusal to heed the world's "constant calls" to end its nuclear program. The ambassador, Kim Hak-Chol, has...

UN Security Council Unanimously Adopts Tough New North Korea Sanctions

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a tough new round of economic sanctions against North Korea in response to its September 3rd nuclear test of a possible...

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