SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – BTS will stage its long-awaited comeback concert on Saturday night at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square, one of South Korea’s most famous landmarks that represents its royal heritage and political and cultural life.
NEW YORK (AP) - Another climb for oil prices shook stock markets on Friday, as hopes collapsed for a possible cut to interest rates this year by the Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 fell 1.5% to close its fourth straight losing week, its longest such streak in a year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 443 points, or 1%, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2%.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his teenage daughter, observed a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems, state media reported Sunday, a likely response to ongoing U.S.-South Korean military training that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal.
CAIRO (AP) - President Donald Trump on Saturday said the U.S. will "obliterate" Iranian power plants if it doesn't fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. Trump issued the ultimatum in a social media post while he spent the weekend in Florida. He said he's giving Iran exactly 48 hours to open the vital waterway or face a new round of attacks.
CAIRO (AP) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s appeal to China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz “open and safe” brought no commitments on Sunday as oil prices soar during the Iran war.
CAIRO (AP) – Iran targeted a joint U.K.-U.S. base in the Indian Ocean, and Iran’s main nuclear enrichment site was struck again, as the war in the Middle East entered its fourth week. Iran’s attack on the Diego Garcia air base – about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) away – suggested Tehran has missiles that can go farther than it had previously acknowledged.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s military said Saturday it detected North Korea firing at least one projectile toward its eastern sea. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff didn’t immediately say whether the weapon was ballistic or how far it flew. The launch came as the United States and South Korea conduct their annual springtime joint military exercises.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korean lawmakers on Thursday passed a law to implement a pledge of $350 billion in U.S. investments Seoul made last year to avoid the Trump administration’s highest tariffs.
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