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Police have arrested a man in South Korea after he allegedly set a fire in an apartment building and stabbed five people to death as they fled.
Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.
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The man reportedly yelled 'there's a fire' and then waited.
Local media, citing the police, say as victims ran out of the building, the man began stabbing them with a deadly weapon.
The attack took place in the small southern city of Jinju.
Five people were killed, including a 12-year-old girl.
Five others were injured and even more are being treated for smoke inhalation.
The unnamed suspect told police he did it because he wasn't being paid on time.
But the local government says he never reported overdue wages.
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Amid stalled progress in nuclear talks with North Korea, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has shifted his focus to diplomacy in Central Asia.
Bruce Harrison tells us more about the president's ongoing trip.
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President Moon is now visiting Turkmenistan.
It's just the second time for a South Korean head to state to travel there.
He hopes to expand cooperation between the countries in ICT, energy and infrastructure.
Moon will also visit Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan as part of his government's new policy to boost economic and diplomatic ties countries in North and Central Asia.
But he'll shift his focus back to Kim Jong-un shortly.
Moon has recently said he's willing to meet the North Korean leader again at anytime, and anyplace.
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The President of the European Council says he dreams of Brexit being scrapped and that we cannot give in to fatalism.
President Donald Tusk was addressing the European Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg and reflecting on the delay to Brexit the EU granted the UK.
Our Europe Correspondent Briohny Williams has more.
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South Korea has marked the five-year anniversary of a ferry sinking that killed hundreds of high school students. Many South Koreans believe justice has still not yet been delivered for the victims.
Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.
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Initial investigations reported the ship was overloaded with cargo and capsized.
But more a more recent investigation says that can't be confirmed.
The captain and crew have been tried and convicted on a number of charges.
But victims' families and others say the government is truly to blame.
Some allege the former government blocked a proper investigation to cover up its botched rescue response.
And the families want to see government officials go to jail.
304 people drowned when the ship went down, mostly students on a field trip.
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EU Institutional leaders have expressed sorrow after the medieval cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris was partly destroyed in a fire.
Pictures of the devastation cover many of Europe's newspapers.
From Brussels, Briohny Williams has more
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