Kim Jong Un wakes up from blackout, wonders why everybody is crying and other top stories.

• Kim Jong Un wakes up from blackout, wonders why everybody is crying

  Kim Jong Un is not a happy drunk. The ruthless North Korean dictator had overindulged on spirits this September when he ordered several top military vets to write apology and self-criticism letters, according to a Japanese media report. KIM JONG UN REPORTEDLY BANS SARCASM “That none of you were able to produce not even one military satellite is a misconduct that is commensurate to treason,” the sauced despot allegedly told his country’s top military brass during an all-night reprimand. But the ..

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• Abe, Putin agree to revive Japan-Russia security talks, discuss Syria

  

  NAGATO, Japan Japan and Russia agreed at a leaders' summit on Thursday to revive security talks and start discussing economic cooperation on disputed islands at the core of a row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty formally ending World War Two.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin also talked about Syria, with Abe conveying to Putin his concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation and Putin offering to work with other countries to settle t..

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• Vladimir Putin likely gave go-ahead for US cyberattack, intelligence officials say

  

  American intelligence officials say they are convinced that Russian hacking of our presidential election was approved by President Vladimir Putin. Sources confirm to CBS News they believe Putin was aware of attacks that began in July of last year. An official investigation is still going on. But this is the first time the hacking that plagued the Democratic National Committee until Election Day has been linked to Putin, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues. On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman ..

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• EgyptAir crash: Explosives found on victims, say investigators

  

  Image copyright Alex Snow / Airteamimages.com Image caption EgyptAir Flight MS804 had been flying from Paris to Cairo when it crashed Traces of explosives have been found on victims of the EgyptAir plane crash over the Mediterranean in May, investigators say.A statement by Egypt's civil aviation ministry said a criminal investigation would now begin into the crash of the Airbus A320.Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo plunged into the sea on 19 May killi..

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• China Defends Its Right To 'Ready Slingshot' In South China Sea

  

  BEIJING ― China defended its right on Thursday to put “necessary military installations” on artificial islands in the South China Sea, after a U.S. think-tank said Beijing appeared to have deployed weapons such as anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems. The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said its findings, made available first to Reuters on Wednesday, were based on analysis of satellite images of islands in the strategic trade r..

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• The Latest: UN Says Syria Locked It Out of Aleppo Evacuation

  

  ___2:45 p.m.A convoy of ambulances with wounded civilians has started to leave the last rebel-held part of eastern Aleppo. It's the first evacuations under a cease-fire deal this week meant to allow the pullout from the rebel enclave and the surrender of the territory to Syrian government control in the face of a devastating ground and air offensive by government forces.Syrian state TV is showing live footage of a long convoy of ambulances and green buses driving out and crossing the Ramouseh b..

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• Iran sanctions bill goes into law without Obama's signature

  

  A bill extending sanctions on Iran for a decade will go into law without President Obama’s signature.“This Administration has made clear that an extension of the Iran Sanctions Act, while unnecessary, is entirely consistent with our commitments in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement early Thursday. “Consistent with this longstanding position, the extension of the Iran Sanctions Act is becoming law without the President's s..

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• An EU dinner with Brexit for each course

  

  Image copyright AP Image caption Theresa May is in Brussels for a meeting of the European Council It's not a snub. Or a rule-breaker. Or a witches' cauldron around which anti-UK tactics will be plotted. Theresa May doesn't invite the European Union to her Brexit strategy discussions - as you might expect - and the EU doesn't invite her to theirs, for the very same reasons. As a full member (still) of the EU, the UK prime minister is included - as she ..

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• Taiwan Is Both Exhilarated and Unnerved by Trump's China Remarks

  

  Even as he has elevated Taiwan’s status by speaking on the phone with its president, Mr. Trump has left the impression that he sees the island primarily as leverage to extract compromises from China on other issues. “I don’t know why we have to be bound by a One China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade,” he said, before also citing Beijing’s military buildup in the disputed South China Sea and its support for North Korea.Not since Richard M. ..

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