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DPRK

Pyongyang dismisses arms supply claims

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said on Tuesday that claims by the United States that Pyongyang is supplying artillery ammunition to Moscow were groundless, state media KCNA reported. The rebuke comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula after a spate of weapons tests from Pyongyang last week, as the US and the Republic of Korea conducted their biggest-ever air force exercise.

UNITED NATIONS

3 dead after raft sinks off Yemeni coast

A raft carrying African migrants seeking a better life in the Gulf Arab states sank in waters off Yemen late last month, leaving three dead and 28 others missing, the United Nations said on Monday. The UN's migration agency said that the overcrowded vessel carrying around 30 East African migrants departed eastern Djibouti for Yemen's west coast on Oct 30. Witnesses said the small raft was soon overpowered by "high tides and rocky waters" and quickly sank.

SOUTH AMERICA

Neighbors resume flights after 2 years

Venezuela and Colombia resumed direct flights on Monday as relations between the two South American neighbors pick up. The flight on Monday by Turpial Airlines from the Venezuelan capital Caracas to the Colombian capital Bogota is the first one in two years since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020. Venezuela severed political and diplomatic ties with Colombia on Feb 23, 2019, after the neighboring nation, under US pressure, recognized Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president.

Agencies - Xinhua