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South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held their first round of talks Tuesday in a historic summit in Pyongyang largely aimed at kick-starting stalled U.S.-North Korea talks on denuclearization. Kim greeted Moon with hugs and smiles when the South ...

Reunification Highway runs all the way from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to the Demilitarized Zone that divides the North from South Korea, 170 kilometers (100 miles) away. It starts under a giant concrete arch depicting two women in traditional gowns reaching out ...

Malaysia has agreed with Singapore to postpone the development of a high-speed rail service by two years, Malaysian media reported, as Southeast Asia's third-largest economy looks to review mega-projects to cut its massive debt. Malaysian business weekly The Edge on Saturday cited sources confirming both ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that Chinese funds are not for "vanity projects" in Africa but are to build infrastructure that can remove bottlenecks in the continent's development. Speaking at a business forum ahead of the start of a once-every-three-years China-Africa summit, Xi said: ...

Italians on Friday began burying some of their dead from Tuesday's Genoa highway bridge collapse, and the government moved to punish the bridge's operator. Saturday was declared a national day of mourning and was to include a state funeral at the industrial port city's fairgrounds ...

Italy's government opened an investigation on Thursday into the country's biggest toll-road operator, hours after saying it could face a heavy fine or lose its concession over a bridge collapse that killed at least 38 people. A section of the bridge gave way on Tuesday ...

The populists setting the agenda in Italy's coalition government have seized on the collapse of a bridge in the north to question whether they should respect European Union budget constraints. The collapse came as the bridge was undergoing maintenance work on Tuesday and as the ...

The pact will mobilize investment in energy, transportation, tourism and technology infrastructure in what will be seen as a move to counter China’s “Belt and Road” initiative.