Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday urged his North Korean counterpart to abide by UN resolutions and stop provoking “the international community's goodwill” with missile launches and nuclear tests.Wang spoke to reporters in Manila after meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho on the sidelines of a regional meeting, hours after the UN Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions to punish Pyongyang for its escalating nuclear and missile programs.North Korean For

US President Donald Trump is tweeting his support for tough new sanctions against North Korea unanimously approved by the UN Security Council. “The United Nations Security Council just voted 15-0 to sanction North Korea. China and Russia voted with us. Very big financial impact!” he said on Twitter.The sanctions against North Korea for its escalating nuclear and missile programs include a ban on coal and other exports worth over $1 billion  _ a huge bite in its total exports, valued at $3 billio

Hiroshima’s appeal of “never again” on the anniversary Sunday of the world’s first atomic bomb attack has gained urgency as North Korea moves ever closer to acquiring nuclear weapons, showing its growing prowess with increasingly frequent missile launches.When the US dropped the bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, Toshiki Fujimori’s mother was carrying him, then just a year old, piggyback to the hospital.  The impact of the explosion threw them both to the ground, nearly killing him.“Obviously tensions are gr

The US Air Force was preparing Tuesday to test an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile with a launch from California, the fourth such test this year.The 30th Space Wing says the missile was to be launched between 12:01 a.m. and 6:01 a.m. Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.An Air Force statement said the test would show the effectiveness, readiness, and accuracy of the weapon system. (AFP-Yonhap)Minuteman missiles

A surging wildfire raced through California mountains and foothills west of Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, forcing thousands to flee tiny, Gold Rush-era towns and wafting smoky haze over the park's landmark Half Dome rock face. The 4-day-old blaze nearly doubled in size overnight from about 40 square miles (100 kilometers) to more than 70 square miles (180 square kilometers), the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. (AFP)At its closest, the blaze was still about 35 m

The former director of South Korea’s earthquake research center was convicted in federal court of laundering more than $1 million in bribes, prosecutors said Tuesday.Chi Heon-cheol, 59, was convicted Monday of taking more than $1 million in bribes from companies in Pasadena and England and funneling proceeds through US banks.Chi abused his government position with the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources by providing insider information to seismological companies doing business in

Women dominate Westeros as never before, and it’s the same with the “Game of Thrones” ratings.The HBO drama’s seventh-season premiere last weekend drew a record-setting 10.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen company figures released Tuesday. That eclipsed previous top-rated “Game of Thrones” episodes, including the 8.11 million who watched the season five finale in 2015 and the 8 million who tuned in to that year’s opener. (HBO)The numbers represent viewers who watched the episodes as they f

Japan called Monday for increased pressure on North Korea, saying this is not a time for dialogue. Government spokesman Norio Maruyama said North Korea reached “a new level” with its latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile as Americans celebrated Independence Day on July 4. The test marked a significant step toward the goal of North Korea's young leader Kim Jong Un to develop a missile with a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the United States. The ICBM reportedly landed in Japa

President Donald Trump was captured complimenting the French president's wife's appearance Thursday as he toured a famous Paris landmark.Video footage posted on the French government's official Facebook page showed Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and their wives chatting after their tour of the museums at Les Invalides. As they were saying their good-byes, Trump turned to Brigitte Macron and gestured toward her body.“You know, you're in such good shape,” Trump said, before repeating the

Manchester officials say they are making US pop singer Ariana Grande an honorary citizen of the city because of her response to the deadly concert attack in May.City council leader Richard Leese proposed the move, describing the 23-year-old singer as “a young American woman for whom it would have been understandable if she never wanted to see this place again.” (AP)He said instead, Grande “brought comfort to thousands and raised millions” for an emergency fund when she returned to headline the O

The Latest on President Moon Jae-in's summit with President Donald Trump (all times local): 12:10 p.m.    President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to visit South Korea this year.     South Korean President Moon Jae-in says he invited Trump and his wife, Melania, to visit.    Moon says Trump "graciously accepted'' the offer. He spoke Friday in the White House Rose Garden.     Moon adds that the visit will "demonstrate not only our friendship but also the intimate bond our peoples have co

A man on the radar of French authorities for extremism was killed Monday after ramming a car carrying arms and explosives into a police convoy on Paris' famed Champs-Elysees Avenue, setting off a fiery blast and a cloud of orange smoke, officials said. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation. Gendarmes jumped out of the vehicle, ran to the car, smashed its windows and pulled out the driver in an apparent attempt to save him, according to witness accounts. The interior minister

Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week after almost a year and a half in captivity, died Monday, his family said.The 22-year-old “has completed his journey home,” the family said in a statement.“Unfortunately, the awful, torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today,” his parents said.Otto Frederick Warmbier, a University of Virgin

It took months of “quiet diplomacy,” a change in US presidents and an American diplomat’s extraordinary, secret visit to Pyongyang to bring Otto Warmbier home.US special envoy Joseph Yun was a household name to almost no one before Warmbier’s return to Ohio on Tuesday, yet he joins an exceedingly short list of US officials to set foot in furtive North Korea in recent years. The last such visit is believed to have been in November 2014, when former National Intelligence Director James Clapper bro