overnight News of 05/26/19

North Korea Says Nuclear Talks Won’T Resume Unless The U.S. Changes Its ‘Unilateral’ Position

(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea says nuclear negotiations with the United States will never resume unless the Trump administration moves away from what the North describes as unilateral demands for disarmament. Pyongyang’s official ...

First Couples Say ‘I Do’ In Taiwan After Same-Sex Marriage Is Legalized

Tears flowed and bouquets flew on Friday as hundreds of same-sex couples exchanged vows in Taipei’s Shinyi District. Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage when its legislature voted to approve the measure ...

50 Children Have Been Rescued After Officials Busted A Multinational Paedophile Ring

Nine people were arrested in Thailand, Australia and the U.S. and 50 children were rescued following an Interpol investigation into an international paedophile ring. The investigation, which began two years ago and is called Operation Blackwrist, ...

The Trump Administration May Bypass Congress To Export Weapons To Gulf States

The White House may bypass Congress to export billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that are now on hold. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other officials are pushing for the enacting of an emergency ...

President Trump Is Escalating Efforts To Investigate Intelligence Agencies

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump directed the U.S. intelligence community on Thursday to “quickly and fully cooperate” with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of the origins of the multi-year probe of whether ...

The Philippines Says It Will Dump Garbage In Canada’S Waters If They Don’T Take It Back

The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, says his government has hired a private shipping company to send containers full of Canadian trash back to Canada, vowing to dump the rubbish in Canadian waters if the country does not accept them, ...

Banned Ozone-Destroying Gases Are Coming From China, Scientists Say

A new study has determined that the mysterious source of ozone-destroying gases that have increased in the atmosphere recently is eastern China . Last year, scientists discovered that chlorofluorocarbons , more commonly known as CFCs, were ...

The World’S Most Consumed Alcohol Is One You Might Not Have Tried. But It’S Coming To A Bar Near You

“You’re going to drink a little more than you like, and you can’t refuse,” the late Anthony Bourdain told his co-star Eric Ripert when they ventured to China’s Sichuan Province on his Parts Unknown television show. ...

Early Results From India’S Elections Point To A Modi Victory. Here’S What To Know

After an elaborate seven-phase election set over five-and-a-half weeks, India’s marathon polls finally came to a close on Sunday. Counting to determine the winner in the world’s largest democratic election began at 8 a.m. local time on ...

Kenyan Author And LGBT Activist Binyavanga Wainaina Has Died At 48

(NAIROBI, Kenya) — One of Africa’s best-known authors, Binyavanga Wainaina, has died at age 48, a colleague and friend said Wednesday. Tom Maliti, the chairman of the Kwani Trust which Wainaina founded, told The Associated Press the ...

An Activist Says Refugees On Manus Island Attempted Suicide After Australia’S Election

At least nine refugees attempted suicide after Australia’s ruling conservative party won a surprise victory in the country’s election over the weekend, reports CNN. Human rights activist Behrouz Boochani , who is currently being ...

Thousands Of North Korean Women Are Being Forced Into China’S Sex Trade, A Report Says

A new report says thousands of North Korean women and girls are being forced to into marriages and sex slavery in China. An investigation by London-based non-profit Korea Future Initiative (KFI) conducted first-hand interviews over two years with ...

Protests Over Indonesia’S Election Results Have Turned Deadly

At least six people are dead and more than 200 are injured after protests turned violent following the announcement of Indonesia’s official presidential election results , according to the governor of Jakarta. Supporters of the main ...

North Korea Calls Joe Biden A ‘Fool Of Low I.Q.’ For Criticizing Kim Jong Un

(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea has labeled Joe Biden a “fool of low IQ” and an “imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being” after the U.S. presidential hopeful called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a ...

Malaysia Is Sending Plastic Waste Back To Where It Came From

Malaysia plans to send non-recyclable plastic back to the countries that sent it there, the country’s environment minister said Tuesday. The Southeast Asian country became the top destination for plastic waste in 2018 after China stopped ...

Two Hong Kong Activists Were Granted Asylum In Germany, Calling The City’S Freedoms Into Question

Two years after their quiet departure from Hong Kong, two political activists from the semiautonomous region of China have come forward to say that they are under refugee protection in Germany. Ray Wong, 25, and Alan Li, 27, faced rioting charges ...

Indonesia Sentences Frenchman To Death For Drug Smuggling

An Indonesian court sentenced a French citizen to death for smuggling drugs on Monday in a surprisingly draconian verdict that outstripped the prosecutors’ requests for a long prison sentence . Felix Dorfin, 35, was arrested in September at ...

Accused New Zealand Mosque Shooter Charged With Terrorism

(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — New Zealand police on Tuesday filed a terrorism charge against the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques. Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, was already facing murder and attempted ...

Trade War Fight Song Shows Growing Anti-U.S. Sentiment In China

Perhaps nothing captures the growing anti-U.S. sentiment in China better than a song about the trade war that is going viral in Beijing: “If the perpetrator wants to fight, we will beat him out of his wits.” This privately-produced song ...

Nike, Adidas Join Footwear Brands Urging Trump To Drop ‘Catastrophic’ Tariffs On Shoes Made In China

Nike Inc., Adidas AG and other footwear giants urged President Donald Trump to reconsider his tariffs on shoes made in China, saying the policy would be “catastrophic for our consumers, our companies and the American economy as a whole.” ...