BANGKOK
A fire on board a bus in western Thailand killed 20 migrant workers from Myanmar early on Friday, police said.
The bus was carrying 47 workers who had just crossed the border into Thailand to work legally. Three other people on the bus were injured but the rest escaped unharmed, police said.
"The driver said he saw fire breaking out from the middle of the bus, which then spread quickly," Kritkanok Dan-udom, the chief of Maetor district police station, told Reuters.
TOKYO
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday he would explain Japan's stance on the North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens in a meeting with Donald Trump, ahead of the U.S. president's planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Japan's government worries the emotive matter of the abductees, which Abe has made a key issue during his political career, will take a back seat to nuclear and missile issues in the U.S.-North Korean summit.
"I plan to visit the Unites States next month and have a summit meeting with President Trump and discuss the North Korean situation," Abe said.
"In particular I would like to explain Japan's stance on the abduction issue," he said during a meeting with family members of those abducted by North Korea decades ago.
By Christine Kim | SEOUL
North and South Korea will hold their first summit in more than a decade on April 27, South Korean officials said on Thursday, after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged his commitment to denuclearisation as tensions ease between the old foes.
South Korean officials, who announced the date after high-level talks with North Korean counterparts, said the agenda would largely be denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and improving inter-Korean relations.
The two Koreas had agreed to hold the summit at the border truce village of Panmunjom when South Korean President Moon Jae-in sent a delegation to Pyongyang this month to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Tapping into a Pizzagate-ish conspiracy angle bouncing around a corner of the Internet, Caplan traveled to Brookville, New York earlier this week for a Global Institute of Long Island University event featuring former Vice President Joe Biden.
Caplan had posted a GoFundMe campaign to help cover the $147.68 ticket for a Tuesday night event that featured a Q&A session that Caplan interrupted, and then faced the wrath of a crowd that wasn’t having it.
This, so he could accuse the former vice president of inappropriately touching children, citing evidence on YouTube. (Despite no charges or formal allegations filed against Biden, the conspiracy goes beyond the “Inappropriate Joe Biden” meme and concerns about his history in a #MeToo movement world.)
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No coincidence !