The new commander of the United States military forces in South Korea said Thursday he expects resumption of talks and coordination with North Korea during his first visit to the frontline region separating the two sides.The Joint Security Area (JSA), the inter-Korean truce village where South and North Korean soldiers are standing face-to-face, was the choice for Gen. Vincent Brooks' first field inspection as the top commander of the 28,000-strong U.S. Forces Korea.  "Each time I come back (her

Brazil’s Senate voted Thursday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff after a months-long fight that laid raw the country’s fury over corruption and economic decay, hurling Latin America’s largest country into political turmoil just months before it hosts the Summer Olympics. Rousseff’s enraged backers called the move a coup d’etat and threatened wide-scale protests and strikes. Her foes, meanwhile, insisted that she had broken the law, and that the country’s deep political, social and economic woe

    President Park Geun-hye is seeking to capitalize on diplomatic and economic achievements from her groundbreaking visit to Iran to push forward stalled domestic reforms.   Park secured Iran's support for denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula during talks with her Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani earlier this week in Tehran -- the first summit between the leaders of the two countries in more than half a century.   She also met with Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a symboli

Turkey's interior minister on Sunday identified the suicide bomber who killed himself and four foreign tourists in Istanbul as a militant with links to the Islamic State group.Minister Efkan Ala said the bomber was Turkish citizen Mehmet Ozturk, who was born in 1992 in Gaziantep province, which borders Syria. He said Ozturk had no previous criminal record and five other people were detained as part of the investigation. Saturday's explosion killed five people, including Ozturk, andeurowounded do

Prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted three board members of the Seoul branch of a British international school over allegations they embezzled some billions of won in school expenses in violation of the private school act.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said the dean of admissions at Dulwich College Seoul, identified only by her surname Lee, is accused of siphoning off some 7.2 billion won ($6 million) of tuition from 2010 to 2015 to redeem loans. The money was borrowed to

The United States said Tuesday that denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the highest priority in its North Korea policy and pressed the communist country to give up its nuclear programs. The close cooperation on Resolution 2270 adopted by the U.N.Security Council, imposing the strongest sanctions yet on Pyongyang, demonstrated that South Korea and the U.S. are in "firm agreement" on dealing with threats posed by the North, the U.S.Embassy said in a press release.Last week, the U.N. adopte

A U.N. resolution unanimously adopted Wednesday ratchets up sanctions on North Korea, with a raft of new measures that are the toughest yet to hit the reclusive country.Here are the key points of the resolution: ARMS EMBARGO TIGHTENED- Prevents sales of small arms, transfers of any item except food and medicine that could be used by the armed forces, for example trucks.- Bans military and police cooperation, shutting down North Korea's training programs abroad, in particular in Africa. These wer