Author: Foster Klug
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Taylor Swift reaches LAX in journey from Tokyo to Super Bowl, online sleuths say. Will she make it?
Will Taylor Swift make it to the Super Bowl in time
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Passengers leave ship docked off Japan after quarantine ends
YOKOHAMA, Japan • About 500 passengers left the cruise ship Diamond Princess on Wednesday at the end of a much-criticized two-week quarantine aboard the vessel that failed to stop the spread of the new virus among passengers and crew. The quarantine’s flop was underlined as Japanese authorities announced 79 more cases, bringing the total on…
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North Korea says missile test was ‘solemn warning’ to South
TOKYO • A day after two North Korean short-range missile launches rattled Asia, the nation said Friday that it had tested a “new-type tactical guided weapon” that was meant to be a “solemn warning” about South Korean weapons development and its rival’s plans to hold military exercises. The message in the country’s state media quoted…
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Trump, Kim summit collapses over sanctions impasse
HANOI, Vietnam — Talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un collapsed Thursday after the two sides failed to bridge a standoff over U.S. sanctions, a dispiriting end to high-stakes meetings meant to disarm a global nuclear threat. Trump blamed the breakdown on North Korea’s insistence that all the punishing sanctions the…
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Trump, Kim to hold second summit with world watching
HANOI, Vietnam • President Donald Trump is paying a courtesy call on his Vietnamese hosts while North Korea’s Kim Jong Un was expected to take in some sights Wednesday before the leaders open their second nuclear summit with a one-on-one meeting and private social dinner. But the carnival-like atmosphere in the Vietnamese capital, with vendors…
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Moon to carry message from Kim to Trump
SEOUL, South Korea • A beaming South Korean President Moon Jae-in, freshly returned home Thursday from a whirlwind three-day summit with Kim Jong Un, said the North Korean leader wants the U.S. secretary of state to visit Pyongyang soon for nuclear talks, and also hopes for a quick follow-up to his June summit with President…
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Trump, North Korea’s Kim come together for momentous summit
SINGAPORE — President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un came together for a momentous summit Tuesday that could determine historic peace or raise the specter of a growing nuclear threat, with Trump pledging that “working together we will get it taken care of.” In a meeting that seemed unthinkable just months ago, the…
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Trump, Kim arrive in Singapore ahead of high-stakes summit
SINGAPORE — President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un converged on this island city-state Sunday ahead of one of the most unusual and highly anticipated summits in recent world history, a Tuesday sit-down meant to settle a standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal. Trump descended from Air Force One into the steamy Singapore…
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North Korea threatens to cancel US summit over drills
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Wednesday canceled a high-level meeting with South Korea and threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over military exercises between Seoul and Washington that Pyongyang has long claimed are invasion rehearsals. The surprise declaration, which came…
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Kim Jong Un makes history, crosses border to meet his rival
GOYANG, South Korea — With a single step over a weathered, cracked slab of concrete, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history Friday by crossing over the world’s most heavily armed border to greet his rival, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, for talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons. Kim then invited Moon to cross…