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Official South Korean endorsement of the plan has done little to reassure the public, as officials face panic buying, protests and consumer boycotts. Some stores even ran out of sea salt and imposed a purchase limit. Separately, China has banned seafood exports from several Japanese prefectures and Hong Kong followed suit after Tokyo won approval from the UN nuclear watchdog last week for its plan to release treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant destroyed by tsunami in the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese government and the operator of the plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, have said…

Russia is investigating whether a North Korean ICBM crashed in its waters during a test launch on Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko was quoted as saying by state media.The RIA and TASS news agencies quoted Rudenko as saying the Russian Defense Ministry was investigating, but "so far we have no clear information that the missile fell in Russia's economic zone."The Hwasong-18 missile is the core of North Korea's nuclear strike force and the test fire was a "strong practical warning" to the United States and other adversaries, the country's state media said when reporting the launch.The test was condemned…

As EL TIEMPO had anticipated this Monday, the United States confirmed that it has suspended monitoring of coca crops in Colombia for the first time in more than three decades, one that has drawn strong criticism of the decision from members of the Republican party.(Read also: The project that excludes aid for Colombia takes a new step in the United States Congress)“We constantly evaluate the effectiveness of various counternarcotics measures and make changes to our work as needed. We continue to work with the Colombian government to monitor illicit coca crops,” said a State Department spokesperson after clarifying that the…

DES MOINES, Iowa — When a group of 18 evangelical Christian voters gathered here to ponder whether they thought Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, 15 of them raised their hands. But that does not mean that in January they will participate in the electoral assemblies of the former president.That was one of the main findings of a focus group convened by Republican pollster Frank Luntz on the eve of the Family Leadership Summit, an evangelical gathering that drew a slew of non-Trump Republican presidential candidates to Iowa on Friday. .Luntz assembled the focus group of Des Moines-area voters…