North Korea is sending a warning to the United States Friday it is ready for dialogue or standoff when it comes to stalled nuclear talks. The North Korean foreign minister also said it would be a miscalculation if Washington imposed more sanctions on Pyongyang.
South Korea says it will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan that has hit trade and undercut security cooperation over North Korea. Reuters Grace Lee reports.
Japan's prime minister was on the offensive Friday after Seoul announced it was cutting intelligence ties with Tokyo. That means it won't share information on North Korea.
"Unfortunately, South Korea has continued with responses that damaged trust between our two countries."
It's the latest development in a growing dispute between the two countries that's affected everything from trade to diplomacy and now national security.
A pact between them was due for automatically renewal on Saturday. It's what allowed them to share intel on the North's weapons program. But South Korea on Thursday said it's dropping that deal.
Japan's defense minister has called for Seoul to reconsider, saying that South Korea didn't appreciate the growing threat from north to its border.
That was Reuters Grace Lee.
South Korea says it will continue sharing information with Japan through the U.S. military under a preexisting deal called TISA.
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A U.N. report released Thursday found that Myanmar military intended to commit genocide on ethnic Rohingya Muslims when it drove hundreds of thousands of them from the country in 2017.
More than 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar's northern Rakhine state in August and September, 2017, after attacks by Rohingya militants against state security forces led to military reprisals. They continue to seek shelter in a refugee camp in neighboring Bangladesh.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has traded barbs on Twitter with French President Emmanuel Macron amid global concern about the fires raging in the Amazon.
AP correspondent Charles De Ledesma reports.
The French leader called the wildfires an international crisis and said the leaders of the Group of 7 nations should hold urgent discussions about them at their summit in France this weekend.
Macron tweeted "Our house is burning. Literally. The Amazon rain forest - the lungs which produces 20% of our planet's oxygen - is on fire."
Bolsonaro fired back with his own tweet "I regret that Macron seeks to make personal political gains in an internal matter for Brazil and other Amazonian countries."
Meanwhile, the U.N.'s secretary-general added to the tweets, writing "The Amazon must be protected."
I'm Charles De Ledesma.
As the leaders of the world's largest advanced democracies prepare to meet for the G-7, there's been a change to the format. French President Emmanuel Macron, the summit host, has declared there will be no communiqué at the end of the summit because of disagreements between President Trump and the other leaders on key issues, such as Iran and climate change.
Matthew Goodman is a former Obama White House coordinator for APEC.
"When the U.S. is leading these forums, they can get stuff done. When the U.S. isn't leading or isn't interested, then it's very hard for them to achieve anything and that's been very visible in the, in the last few G-7s and G-20s."
At last year's G-7 in Quebec, President Trump threatened to halt trade relations with several member nations, called his host Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weak and retracted his endorsement of a joint communiqué.
Malta has agreed to allow a charity ship carrying 356 migrants, including more than 100 minors, mainly from Sudan, to dock. Malta gave the Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking permission to dock after six European countries reached an agreement to take in the migrants.
The ship has been anchored in the Mediterranean for two weeks.
France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Romania are going to take in the migrants.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail Friday. That's according to his spokeswoman.
We have that full story for you on voanews.com. I'm Liz Parker, VOA news.
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