www.theguardian.com Four senior Indian supreme court judges have gone public with an extraordinary warning that India’s chief justice is mishandling sensitive cases and endangering the court’s integrity and the country’s democracy. The four judges, the most senior members of the bench after the chief justice, abruptly left their courtrooms on Friday morning and called the first press conference by members… Read more »
www.telegraph.co.uk North and South Korea have agreed to form a joint women’s hockey team and march under the same flag for a parade at next month’s Winter Olympics, in a major step towards easing tensions on the peninsula. Officials from both sides hope the games, which will be held just 50 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) will help… Read more »
www.cnn.com India has successfully test-fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the country’s Defense Ministry said Thursday. The nuclear-capable Agni-V is believed to be India’s most advanced ICBM. It was fired Thursday morning India time from Abdul Kalam island off the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, the ministry said in a tweet. It called the test a “major… Read more »
Stemming from the original Olympic games in Athens, the underlying theme of Olympic games has always been national unity and pride. The latest communication between the dueling parts of the Korean peninsula to discuss Olympic participation by the North has broken an over two year silence. Recently, the North reopened the line to communicate with South Korea, but it wasn’t… Read more »
Source: NHK World South Korean President Moon Jae-in says his country’s 2015 agreement with Japan over those referred to as comfort women was defective. Moon presented the view during a luncheon with 8 of the women at the presidential office on Thursday. They were joined by the head of a civic group that placed a statue symbolizing such women in… Read more »
Source: BBC North Korea has accepted an offer to attend high-level talks next week, South Korean officials have said. The meeting, on 9 January, will focus on finding a way for North Korean athletes to attend the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea in February. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said this week that sending a delegation to the Games… Read more »
tensions are high in China. The people plead for Democracy but the government has taken risky extremes to shut them down. In an attempt to quell the citizens desire for change the Chinese government arrested protesters, this was not a welcome reaction to the citizens of China. American citizens don’t really appreciate the freedom that we have and the power… Read more »
Aljazeera North Korea has reopened a suspended border hotline with South Korea, a day after Seoul offered high-level talks to discuss Pyongyang’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics. The hotline, which was suspended by the North in February 2016, was restored at 3pm local time (06:30 GMT) on Wednesday at the border village of Panmunjom. South Korea’s Unification Ministry said… Read more »
Aljazeera Hong Kong – Catastrophic, dire, devastating. Just some of the words democracy supporters used to describe this year in a poll on Hong Kong’s struggle to safeguard its autonomy. James Andrew Rice, human rights advocate and philosophy professor at Lingnan University, said a number of his students took part in the 2014 Occupy, or Umbrella, Movement that defined Hong… Read more »
It seems from Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s Day speech that North Korea is looking to lessen tensions with South Korea. They have enforced this statement by reopening telecommunications with South Korea relating to the Winter Olympics. However, many are not convinced that this communication will last due to North Korea’s tendency to quickly recoil from communication such as this…. Read more »
