North Korea threatened on Wednesday to impose the death penalty on the South’s former president Park Geun-Hye over an alleged plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-Un. Park had “pushed forward” a supposed plan by Seoul’s intelligence services to eliminate the North’s leadership, Pyongyang’s security ministries and prosecutors said in ...
An overturned oil tanker has burst into flames in Pakistan after a person tried to light a cigarette nearby, killing at least 157 people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, officials say. About 80 people were injured, with many suffering serious burns. ...