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North Korea's Pledges Are Easier Said Than Done - NPR
A historic handshake between the leaders of North and South Korea this week. Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in also smiled, hugged, strolled, shoveled a little dirt for a tree-planting ceremony in the DMZ that separates their countries. But will that symbolic tree come to signify a permanent agreement? The two leaders did...
U.S. committed to peace in Nigeria, says USIP president - The Guardian
President of United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Nancy Lindborg, has reiterated the institute’s commitment to assist Nigeria in resolving conflicts. Lindborg gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola.
"More Than 50 Percent Of My Work Is Unbuilt" Says Moshe Safdie - World Architecture Community
"More than 50 percent of my work is unbuilt," says Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie in a new Time-Space-Existence video, which has been released by PLANE-SITE, a global agency working at the interface of urban form, cultural space, and social life.
Trump and Kim will have a historic summit, but where? - PBS NewsHour
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history Friday when he and South Korean President Moon Jae-in stepped across the border separating the two countries for the first time.
Part 2: Pro-Iran Militias in Iraq - The Islamists
Since 2003, Iranian influence has deepened in Iraq through a wide array of Shiite militias. Several militia leaders and politicians spent years in exile in Tehran during Saddam Hussein’s reign in the 1980s and 1990s. One of Iraq’s most powerful armed groups, the Badr Organization, was formed in 1982 by Iraqi exiles to fight Hussein with the support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Terror Attacks On Voting Centers Could Hurt Afghan Parliamentary Elections: Analyst - UrduPoint
Attacks on voting process, including the bloody bombing that killed dozens of people including children this week, could hurt the Parliamentary elections due in October this year, said a US expert on Afghan affairs, suggesting that it would be wise to delay the polls to allow more time to coordinate security, voter outreach and registration.
Project to exploit Afghanistan’s giant copper deposit languishes - China Dialogue
All was quiet at Mes Aynak during a visit in early February. The bright sun had partly melted a thin layer of snow on the gentle hills and craggy mountains that surround and intersperse the area. Guard houses dotted the hilltops and a fence with watchtowers protected a group of barracks in an otherwise pristine landscape.
South Korea is sparing no effort to make summit with Kim a made-for-TV success - Washington Post
Nothing will be left to chance when Kim Jong Un on Friday becomes the first North Korean leader to cross the military demarcation line that has divided this peninsula since the Korean War ended in 1953.