Top election campaigners for Moon Jae-in, the presidential candidate of the main opposition Democratic United Party, decided to give up their posts Saturday, allowing their candidate to form a new election camp that will include other liberal forces.The move came one day after independent presidential hopeful Ahn Cheol-soo withdrew from the presidential election, endorsing Moon as the sole candidate of the so-called liberal camp.Moon's top election campaigners "agreed there is a need to form a n

GAZA CITY (AP) _ Israeli troops fired on Gazans surging toward Israel's border fence Friday, killing one person but leaving intact the fragile two-day-old cease-fire between Hamas and the Jewish state.The truce, which calls for an end to Gaza rocket fire on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, came after eight days of cross-border fighting, the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years.In a letter to the U.N. Security Council, the Palestinian U.N. observer Riyad Mansour called the situa

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico early Thursday, according to the US Geological Survey.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the earthquake, which struck at 3:20 am (0920 GMT) some 31 kilometers (19 miles) east of the town of Altamirano, in the southern Guerrero state.The epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 61 kilometers (38 miles) according to the USGS.The earthquake came a little over a week after a 7.4-magnitude te

KAMPALA (AFP) - A fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in central Uganda has killed at least two people, the health minister said Thursday.The virus has killed two members of the same family since Saturday about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital Kampala, Health Minister Christine Ondoa said."The ministry of health would like to inform the general public that another viral haemorrhagic fever, Ebola, has broken out in the country," Ondoa said.A third man also died in the area late last

Democratic United Party presidential candidate Moon Jae-in and independent Ahn Cheol-soo on Friday agreed to reduce the president’s power and reinforce the prime minister’s role should one of them become president next year. “We will pour our genuine hearts into our agreement and reflect what the people of Korea want,” said Yoo Min-young, Ahn’s spokesperson, after the eight-hour meeting. The two sides have been negotiating over a merger of candidacy. The other is expected to become the prime min

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) _ Saudi media reports say a blaze that erupted inside a tent at a wedding in the country's east has killed at least 23 women and children. The media cite civil defense officials as saying that celebratory gunfire, common at weddings, brought down a power line that touched off the fire late Tuesday in the Eastern Province. The official Saudi Press Agency said Wednesday that a special government committee will conduct an investigation into the incident. The probe will be

North Korea accused South Korea on Saturday of creating a "touch-and-go" situation along the tense WestSea border, warning that it would retaliate if the South continues to try to keep its "illegal" borderline there.North Korea has threatened unspecified military actions since South Korea's Navy fired warning shots to drive away several North Korean fishing boats that violated the West Sea border,

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Death row inmate Damon Thibodeaux walked free after 15 years behind bars Friday after DNA evidence showed he had been wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of his cousin, authorities said.The 38-year-old was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in the early afternoon, Pam Laborde, communications director for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Correctio

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The U.S. intelligence community said Friday that a deadly assault on a US consulate in Libya was a planned attack linked to Al-Qaeda but it stressed that "many unanswered questions" remained."It remains unclear if any group or person exercised overall command and control of the attack, and if extremist group leaders directed their members to participate," Shawn Turner, spokesman