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Pence Says US Ready to Talk with North Korea
His comments appear to be a change of stance by the United States.
The US vice president, Mike Pence, has said Washington is ready to talk to North Korea without preconditions. Mr Pence's comments appear to be a change of stance by the United States.
An emergency meeting of the ANC is planned in South Africa today, headed by their leader, Cyril Ramaphosa. He has said that the party leadership will ask President Jacob Zuma to step down.
A Russian airliner has crashed after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport, killing all 65 passengers and six crew on board. The jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.
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