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Korean Peninsula

DPRK to join Winter Paralympics

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea agreed on Tuesday to send athletes to the Republic of Korea on March 7 for the Winter Paralympics, Seoul's unification ministry said. The agreement was reached after working-level talks between the two neighbors, held earlier in the day at Tongilgak, a DPRK building in the truce village of Panmunjom that straddles the ROK and the DPRK. The Winter Paralympics was scheduled for March 9-18 in Pyeongchang.

France

Macron's US visit set for April

French President Emmanuel Macron will make his state visit to the United States on April 23-25, his office announced, the first by a foreign leader since Donald Trump assumed the presidency last year. Trump extended the invitation in January after he was hosted by Macron in July for the Bastille Day national holiday.

Cambodia

Chinese among 19 injured in crash

Nineteen people, mostly foreigners, were injured and the driver of the bus they were on killed in a collision with another vehicle on Tuesday in eastern Cambodia, police said. Those injured in the pre-dawn accident were four Germans, three Britons, three Thais, two people from France, two Israelis, a Chinese and four Cambodians.

United States

Florida gunman to appear in court

The Florida teenager accused of carrying out the deadliest mass shooting at a high school in US history was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday as a long-simmering national debate rages on between proponents of gun rights and advocates of firearms controls. Nikolas Cruz, 19, was expected to be in a Broward County criminal court for a hearing on obtaining evidence from him.

United Kingdom

Fresh disclosures of gender pay gulf

Standard Chartered and Virgin Money disclosed striking gender pay gaps on Tuesday, underlining an industrywide chasm between male and female pay in Britain. Ahead of an April deadline to report on gender pay, StanChart reported a gap of 30 percent in Britain, while Virgin Money - the only major UK lender run by a woman - said its female staff earned on average 32.5 percent less per hour than its male workforce.

United Arab Emirates

'Case closed' in death of film star

An investigation into the death of Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor, who drowned in her bathtub in a Dubai hotel, has been closed, police said on Tuesday. Sridevi, 54, drowned in her bathtub after losing consciousness at the weekend in a hotel in Dubai, where she was attending a wedding. Dubai had held the superstar's body since Saturday, pending the results of the post-mortem investigation.

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