Seoul Warns North Korea Not to Launch Spy Satellite
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In this photo provided by the Korea Defense Daily and released by South Korea's Defense Ministry, senior South Korean military officer Kang Hopil speaks at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, Nov. 20, 2023.
South Korea's military warned North Korea not to go ahead with its planned spy satellite launch, suggesting Monday that Seoul could suspend an inter-Korean agreement to reduce tensions and resume front-line aerial surveillance in response.
Rescue workers use heavy machines to clear a road of rock and mud following a landslide in Simangulampe, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Dec. 2, 2023. Torrential rain triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia's Sumatra island, leaving many people missing, officials said.
FILE - An aerial view of an Equinox copper mine in Lumwana, Zambia, in 2012. On Dec. 2, 2023, seven miners were killed by landslides while they were illegally digging tunnels at a copper mine in Zambia, authorities said.
In this undated image taken from video, Tahitian-born surfer Kauli Vaast records himself surfing on the world-famous Teahupo’o wave in Tahiti. The Olympic surfing competition will be held next July at Teahupo’o as part of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. (Kauli Vaast via AP) FILE - Australian surfer Mick Fanning rides a wave at Teahupo'o, site of the 2024 Olympics surfing competition in Tahiti, French Polynesia. This satellite photo shows the southern part of the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, with the Olympic venue Teahupo'o at center on the southern coast. (NASA's Earth Observatory via AP)
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Palestinians evacuate wounded in Israeli bombardment Rafah, Gaza Strip, Dec. 1, 2023. Israeli soldiers embrace next to photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas militants Oct. 7, near kibbutz Re'im, Dec. 1, 2023. Palestinians evacuate wounded in Israeli bombardment Rafah, Gaza Strip, Dec. 1, 2023. This handout photo provided by GPO on Dec. 1, 2023, shows Israeli released hostage Bilal Al-Ziyadne, left, reuniting with his family at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, Israel.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks Nov. 22, 2023, at the Pentagon in Washington. FILE - China's President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in California, Nov. 16, 2023.
FILE - Somali military force members supporting anti-government opposition leaders gather before leaving to their bases in Mogadishu, Somalia, on May 7, 2021
Red lights are seen at the Raja-Jooseppi international border crossing station in Inari, northern Finland, on Nov. 29, 2023. (Lehtikuva/Otto Ponto via Reuters) FILE - Finnish Border Guards escort the migrants at the international border crossing at Salla, northern Finland, Nov. 23, 2023. (Lehtikuva/Jussi Nukari via Reuters)