Ignoring calls to refrain from provocative behavior by South Korea, the United States, Russia and the United Nations, North Korea continued for the third straight day to fire short range projectiles into the North Korean coastal waters on Monday.
It was announced at a joint news conference held in Sweden by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the two countries are working toward a solution to end the violence in Syria.
A Secretary in the Political section of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was arrested and held for at time in that city on charges that he attempted to recruit a member of the Russian Intelligence Services on Monday.
Reports coming from several global Internet monitoring sites say that Syria went dark on Tuesday night(10:45am Tuesday Alaska time) as service to Internet and cell phones became non-existant.