SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's new conservative president on Friday offered North Korea an olive branch after months of hostility, proposing talks on ways to implement summit agreements reached by his predecessors.
Read SKorea offers NKorea talks on implementing summit pacts (Links)
SYDNEY (AFP) - China's Sinosteel succeeded in its seven-month pursuit of Australian iron ore miner Midwest on Friday, with stock exchange documents showing it had a majority stake in the target company.
Read China's Sinosteel takes majority stake in Australia's Midwest (Links)
BEIJING (AFP) - China has jailed 42 people for their roles in this year's unrest in Tibet, with more than 100 others still on trial who may face the death penalty, state press reported on Friday.
Read China jails 42 over Tibet unrest, others on trial: state media (Links)
PARIS (AFP) - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
Read Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread': European scientists (Links)
VIENNA (AFP) - OPEC secretary general Abdalla Salem El-Badri declined to say Thursday whether the cartel would be prepared to boost output at its next meeting in September in order to help curb the rise in oil prices.
Read OPEC chief keeps mum on possible output hike (Links)
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli troops shot dead an unarmed Palestinian militant on the border in the Gaza Strip Thursday, the first fatality of a fragile three-week-old truce, prompting retaliatory rocket fire.
Read Israeli troops kill Gaza militant in first truce fatality (Links)
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Giving women in poor nations better access to birth control and education would help to slash the number of unwanted births in the developing world, the World Bank said Thursday.
Read Poor need access to birth control, education: World Bank (Links)
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's five-month-old government was in disarray Thursday after the foreign minister resigned following a series of bruising court defeats for the cabinet.
Read Thai govt in disarray as FM resigns (Links)
LONDON (AFP) - The Bank of England held its key short-term interest rate at 5 percent on Thursday in the face of high inflation, sliding economic growth and a housing market downturn.
Read Bank of England holds rates as economy falters (Links)
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran test-fired more weapons on Thursday as it continued war games, ignoring global concern over its launch of a broadside of missiles in the midst of efforts to end the nuclear crisis.
Read Iran fires more missiles in war games (Links)
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