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North Korea Detains American Citizen In Pyongyang

10:22am April 24, 2017

by Anthony Kuhn

North Korea detained a dual nationality South Korean-American as he prepared to board a plane at Pyongyang's airport. It brings the number of Americans known to be in North Korean custody to three.

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Some 2,000 Rohingya refugee families live in the Balukhali camp in southern Bangladesh, according to the camp's leader.

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Can You Still Have Hope When Life Seems Hopeless?

2:50pm April 23, 2017

by Ashley Westerman

We interviewed Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and asked about their hopes for the future. We were shaken by their answers.

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How South Koreans Live Next To Their Totalitarian Neighbor

8:07am April 23, 2017

North Korean missile launches and the threat of a nuclear strike have dominated the news recently. Lynn Neary talks with South Korean author and journalist Suki Kim about the mood in South Korea.

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Ivanka's Brand Thrives, Raising Conflict Questions, As She Takes On White House Role

9:51am April 21, 2017

by Jackie Northam

Ivanka Trump handed over her business operations and put her brand in a trust. Now, she has an office in the White House and sits in on meetings with world leaders while her company flourishes.

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U.S. Missile Defense System To Undergo More Tests

7:31am April 20, 2017

by Philip Ewing

The U.S. is planning tests of its missile defense system as the world deals with a slow-motion crisis over North Korea's aspirations to put a nuclear weapon on a ballistic missile.

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Ivanka Trump sits with her husband, Jared Kushner, at the April 6 dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping at President Trump's estate in Florida. The same day, China granted the president's daughter potentially lucrative trademark rights.

China Defends Trademark Grants For Ivanka Trump Products

6:02pm April 19, 2017

by Jackie Northam

A Foreign Ministry spokesman suggests some media were "hyping certain gossip to hint at something undisclosed." A U.S. trademark lawyer says the process moved remarkably fast.

President Trump's New Order Gives China Tech Opportunity To 'Hire American' Too

5:12pm April 19, 2017

by Aarti Shahani

The same week that President Trump issued his hire American executive order, the president of one of China's top tech companies said his company wants to do the same thing. Baidu's President Ya-Qin Zhang hit the Stanford University campus trying to recruit American computer science students.

Indian activists carry placards displaying images of the Babri mosque during a December 2016 protest in New Delhi to mark the anniversary of the mosque's destruction in 1992.

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4 Indian Politicians To Stand Trial Over 1992 Mosque Destruction

2:06pm April 19, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

It was one of the most incendiary episodes in India's modern history, with communal rioting that killed more than 2,000 people. Now, the Supreme Court has revived criminal conspiracy charges.

Malaysia Airlines says the new system, which is expected to be operational in 2018, will use 66 low-earth-orbit satellites.

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Malaysia Airlines Says It Will Use Satellites To Track Its Fleet

1:26pm April 19, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Three years after MH Flight 370 disappeared from radar, Malaysia's national carrier says it will use satellites to track its planes at all times and that it will be the first airline to do so.

An official photograph dated April 15 and posted by the Navy shows the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in an Indonesian strait thousands of miles south of North Korea.

That 'Armada' Heading To North Korea? Actually, It Sailed South

5:45pm April 18, 2017

by Philip Ewing

The narrative last week was that the U.S. and its allies in the western Pacific were gearing up to confront North Korea. But a strike group that was reportedly on its way isn't anywhere near there.