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Barricades are seen at a military checkpoint on the Tongil bridge, the road leading to North Korea's Kaesong city, in the South Korean border city of Paju

North Korea Blows Up Roads Connecting It To The South

Pyongyang's military last week vowed to permanently seal its southern border after spending months laying mines and building anti-tank barriers in the wake of leader Kim Jong Un declaring the South his country's "principal enemy".
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Former US president Bill Clinton speaks to a morning service at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia as he campaigns for fellow Democrat Kamala Harris

Harris, Trump Seek Advantage In Knife-edge Election Battle

Harris was in North Carolina, a state hard-hit by a hurricane two weeks ago that devastated several communities and left more than 235 people dead across the US Southeast, as she seeks to counter Trump's claims that federal agencies have done little to help storm victims.
During this razor-close US presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, political satire has morphed into misinformation across social media sites

'Stolen Satire' Feeds US Election Misinformation

Ahead of the National Football League regular season, social media users falsely claimed the Minnesota Vikings had denounced Tim Walz, the state's governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate, questioning his leadership.
A man uses binoculars to look at the North Korean side of the Demilitarised Zone from South Korea's Odusan Unification Observatory in Paju

South Korea Military Says 'Fully Ready' As Drone Tensions Soar

The nuclear-armed North has accused Seoul of flying drones over its capital to drop propaganda leaflets filled with "inflammatory rumors and rubbish", and warned Sunday that if another drone was detected it would consider it "a declaration of war".
The waters of the Chari River have risen to record levels

Chad's Capital Under Threat As Floodwaters Rise

At the spot where the Chari and Logone Rivers meet, residents of Chad's capital, N'Djamena, have been scrambling to face flooding brought on by torrential rains that have submerged entire neighbourhoods.
New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd L) and Chinese Premier Li Qiang (R) met on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit in Laos

Japan PM Presses China's Li On Airspace Intrusion

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba called for a "full explanation" of an airspace intrusion by a Chinese military aircraft in his first face-to-face meeting with Premier Li Qiang, Tokyo said Friday.
Italian police stand guard inside a recently built migrant processing centre in the Albanian port of Shengjin

EU Talks Deportation Hubs To Stem Migration

Far-right gains in several European countries have helped put migration issues atop the agenda as home affairs ministers from the bloc's 27 states meet in Luxembourg ahead of a gathering of EU leaders later this month.
Southeast Asian leaders are meeting in the Laos capital Vientiane for the ASEAN summit

SE Asian Summit Seeks Progress On Myanmar Civil War

The disputed South China Sea will also be on the agenda at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathering, after months of violent clashes between Chinese vessels and Philippine and Vietnamese fishermen.

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