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The EU is proposing tariffs on billions of dollars worth of US goods in retaliation to the ongoing dispute over Boeing aircraft subsidies.
It comes just days after Washington threatened tariffs on 11 billion dollars worth of EU goods in response to Airbus subsidies.
From Brussels, Briohny Williams has more…
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Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš will debate the future of Europe with EU politicians in Strasbourg later.
The debates between MEPs and EU heads of state or government is a way of looking at how the EU can adapt to meet certain challenges.
Briohny Williams has more from Brussels.
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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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