BANGKOK — A Thai diver died after running out of air while assisting in the rescue of 12 boys and their football coach trapped inside the Tham Luang in Northern Thailand, an official said Friday. Samarn Poonan, a former member of Thailand’s elite navy SEAL unit, died Thursday night after entering the cave to lay air […]
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ended the first of two days of talks Friday in North Korea about ending Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.The meetings come amid reports of American intelligence assessments that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is continuing to develop the infrastructure for his nuclear program.Discussions resume Saturday. Pompeo has been […]
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — A trade deal with the European Union expected to be ratified this year will accelerate growth of Vietnam’s export-reliant economy without help from the U.S. market, analysts say. The European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement signed in 2015 should speed annual economic growth by half a percent to more than 7 percent by 2019, […]
On Monday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein addressed the locking up of immigrant children in camps by the U.S. in a statement to the 38th session of the Human Rights Council saying, “In the past six weeks, nearly two thousand children have been forcibly separated from their parents. The American […]