Bloomberg South Korea is reviewing the possibility of lifting some domestic sanctions against North Korea, according to comments made by its foreign minister at an audit hearing. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told lawmakers on Wednesday in Seoul it was consulting with other related authorities on whether to lift sanctions imposed on North Korea after the March 2010 sinking of South ...

Bloomberg Swedish opposition leader Ulf Kristersson said he would now turn to a Plan B in his center-right Alliance’s efforts to form a government after failing to secure the support of Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven. “The Alliance now needs to agree on Plan B when it’s clear that Plan A, judging from everything we know, can be excluded,” Kristersson ...

Bloomberg A US congressional report warned of a “dire human rights situation” in China, especially the country’s mass internment of Uighurs and other Muslim ethic minorities in “political re-education camps.” The report, released on Wednesday by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, said the detention may represent the biggest imprisonment of an ethnic minority population since World War II and may ...