South Korea sending envoys to North Korea as Trump suggests U.S. willing to talk

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will dispatch a delegation led by senior security officials for a two-day visit to North Korea starting Monday, the presidential Blue House announced Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump hinted that he is ready to talk to Pyongyang.

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Syrian government makes Ghouta gains; Turkey steps up Afrin attack

BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian government forces gained more ground in an assault on eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Saturday as they seek to defeat the last major rebel enclave near the capital, a war monitor and a news service run by Lebanon's Hezbollah said.

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Iranian official calls on West to scrap nuclear arms before any missile talks

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will not negotiate over its ballistic missiles until the United States and Europe dismantle nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, a top Iranian military official said on Saturday.

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Australia's former deputy PM unsure if baby is his but doesn't care

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia’s former deputy prime minister, who resigned last month over an extra-marital affair with his press secretary, acknowledged in a media interview that the baby being carried by his pregnant former staffer may not be his.

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Donald Trump hints he wants death penalty for drug dealers

Donald Trump has hinted that he wants to see the death penalty for drug dealers. The US president said some other countries use the "ultimate penalty" for such people and it appeared to be effective in reducing the scourge of drugs. Mr Trump was speaking at an "Opioid Summit" at the White House aimed at tackling America's opioid crisis. He said: "If you shoot one person they give you the death penalty. These people (drug dealers) can kill two or three thousand people and nothing happens to them. "The answer is you have to have strength and toughness. Drug dealers and pushers are really doing damage. "Some countries have the tough penalty, the ultimate penalty. And by the way they have much less of a drug problem than we do." Mr Trump is believed to have privately praised Singapore's policy of using the death penalty for drug traffickers. America's war against opioid addiction He is said to like the idea of America having it for major drug dealers, although to accept that such a goal may not be achievable. At the summit the president also encouraged Jeff Sessions, his Attorney General, to pursue litigation against major pharmaceutical companies manufacturing opioids. He said: "Hopefully we can do some litigation against the companies. Some of the states are doing it. I keep saying if the states are doing it why aren't the federal government doing it. So that'll happen, that'll happen."' The rate of death by drug overdose in the US has steadily risen This year an estimated 65,000 Americans will die after overdosing on opioids, whether it be prescription painkillers or illegal street drugs like heroin. That is more than die in car crashes or gun incidents, and more than the number of US soldiers that perished in the Vietnam War. The legal opioid market in America is worth around $15 billion a year. The US has only five per cent of the world's population, but consumes 80 per cent of all prescription painkillers. It has also been flooded with illegal and powerful synthetic opioids from China. The impact of synthetic fentanyl, a version of a drug originally intended for use by cancer patients, has been devastating. It is 50 times stronger than heroin and more than half of overdose victims now have it  in their system. Mr Trump has said the opioids crisis is a top priority for his administration. Last October he declared it a public health emergency and he recently signed a budget agreement that will provide $6 billion over the next two years to fight opioid abuse. 

Police: Boy who shot himself planned attack on school

A seventh-grader who shot and killed himself inside an Ohio middle school restroom last week was planning to shoot others at the school before changing his mind at the last second, a police chief said Thursday.