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South Korean loudspeakers silenced for good as relations with North thaw Seoul has announced its propagandablasting loudspeakers will be turned off, while the North intends to align its time zone with the South. The two peace offerings come as a result of last Fridayʼs historic summit. South Korea is to remove the loudspeakers,which regularly broadcast propagandaaimed at the North, on Tuesday, the Southʼs Defense Ministry said. On Sunday, North Korea said it willalign its time zonewith that of the South by putting clocks forward by a half-hour. Pyongyang had changed the time zone in 2015, criticizing it as a relic from Japanese colonial rule. Both moves are seen as tentative steps of reconciliation after leaders Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un met in a Korean border village last Friday.
US border authorities block Central American migrant caravan US officials have told would-be asylum seekers at the Mexican border that the crossing is too full to process their cases. The migrants have already drawn the wrath of US President Trump during their trek through Mexico.More than a hundred migrants from Central American countries have camped out at the US-Mexican border after being told by US border inspectors on Sunday that a crossing facility had no capacity for them. It was not immediately clear whether the migrants, who have traveled 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) through Mexico to the border at Tijuana, would be turned back or allowed in later.
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German ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sued by fianceeʼs ex-husband Her ex-husband is seeking nearly $1 million in damages
Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has been sued for allegedly having an extramarital affair with his South Korean fiancee, a report says. A South Korean man is suingformer German Chancellor Gerhard Schröderfor allegedly having an affair with his wife, now Schröderʼs future bride, while she was still married to him, according to a report by the Yonhap news agency on Monday. Although extramarital affairs ceased being a criminal offense in South Korea in 2015, affairs can still give grounds for civil legal action. The report cited a document submitted to the court that accused Schröder of causing the ex-husband of Kim So-yeon "unbearable mental distress." "Our marriage eventually fell apart, and the accused should be held responsible for his action," the document said. The man, whose identity was withheld, is reportedly asking for 100 million won ($936,000, €772,717) in damages. Schröder, 74, who has already been married four times,announced in Januarythat he would wed Kim, a South Korean translator, who divorced her husband last November. He himself divorced his fourth wife, Doris Schröder-Kopf, earlier in April, after long proceedings that
started in 2016. Schröder-Kopf said last September that Kim had played a role in the breakup of her marriage. Schröder has insisted that this is not the case. Kim, 48, is is a Seoul representative of the Economic Development Agency of the German state of North RhineWestphalia. She has worked for Schröder as a Korean translator. The ex-German chancellor, whose multiple marriages have earned him the soon to be out-of-date nickname of "Audi man" — a reference to the four-ring symbol used by the carmaker — has come under fire in recent months for taking on a position on the board of Russian energy giant Rosneft. The post is contentious, with Russia continuing to be the target of EU sanctions over its role in the Ukraine conflict and its annexation of Crimea. Schröder, who belongs to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), was German chancellor from 1998 to 2005.The labor market and welfare reformshe introduced during his time in office were highly unpopular with the leftist elements in his party.
German police arrest elderly babysitter after suspicious child death A 69-year-old woman has been detained by police after a 7-year-old boy in her care was found dead, apparently strangled. The boy is said to have had a warm relationship with the babysitter. German police say they have detained a 69-year-old woman in the southern German town of Künzelsau, not far from Stuttgart, after a 7-year-old boy whom she had been babysitting overnight in her house was found lying dead in a bathtub. The woman was arrested on Saturday evening after a short police search and has since been remanded in custody. The boy had been spending the night with the woman as he had done many times before. When his parents came to pick him up on Saturday morning, no one came to the door. They used a neighborʼs key to enter the house, where the father discovered his son dead in the bath.
Catholic cardinal rebukes Bavaria for ordering crosses in state buildings Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said directing all state buildings to hang crosses amounts to "expropriating the cross in the name of the state." Bavarian Premier Markus Söder sparked nationwide criticism for the move. The head of the German Bishopsʼ Conference has sharply criticized the premier of the southern German state of Bavaria for ordering Christian crosses to be hung in all state buildings.
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