Seoul / AP North Korea channeled about 70 percent of the money it received for workers at the now-shuttered Kaesong industrial park into its weapons programs and to buy luxury goods for the impoverished nation’s tiny elite, South Korea said on Sunday. The jointly run park, just outside the North Korean city of Kaesong and about 50 kilometers (35 miles) ...

Bloomberg The US Defense Department is urging Turkey and Kurdish forces in Syria to quit firing at each other as reports of fresh violence between the two parties threaten their efforts to counter IS. “We are concerned about the situation north of Aleppo and are working to de-escalate tensions on all sides,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “We have ...

Greenville / AP Republican White House hopefuls called for President Barack Obama to step aside and allow his successor to nominate the next Supreme Court justice, in a debate jolted by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Only Jeb Bush said Obama had “every right” to nominate a justice during his final year in office. The former Florida governor ...