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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">The center in question was run by the Korea Hana Foundation, a nonprofit operating under of auspices of South Korea’s Unification Ministry.</p><br />
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">“Currently no harm or damage has been observed due to the leak,” a Unification Ministry spokesman <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/vyfhhtzyzrhnfffknkrtmnqzcvnttqykmkfyvmgfvhmkj_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">told</a> CNN. “We have been contacting each defector (to brief them).”</p><br />
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b>Nigeria:</b> Boko Haram militants <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/zfmsstqfqzskrrrbkbztdkgqcmkttgfbdbrfmdlrmsdbd_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">attacked</a> two military posts in Nigeria’s northeast, killing 14 people and for a short time taking control of the headquarters of a task force made up of soldiers from Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria. ”[T]errorists carted away gun trucks, ammunition, and multiple rocket launchers,” a military source <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/wjvggymjmfgbdddwbwfyzbtmhlbyytjwzwdjlzsdlgzwj_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">told</a> AFP.</p><br />
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<p> • Ahead of this weekend’s election, the Congolese government <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/xdcrrmqcqgrtdddptpgmstnqyvtmmncpspdcvsbdvrsrp_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">expelled</a> European Union Ambassador Bart Ouvry in response to renewed sanctions against Congolese officials.</p><br /><br />
<p> • Madagascar presidential candidate Marc Ravalomanana <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/akbhhwglgbhnmmmynybwsnvgcknwwvlysymlkspmkhshh_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">contested</a> the results of Thursday’s presidential election in court after the country’s electoral commission declared his opponent Andry Rajoelina the winner.</p><br /><br />
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<p> • A partial U.S. government shutdown <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/ylskkztvtmknsssfnfmzcnptwlnzzpvfcfsvlcgslkckg_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">continued</a> into its seventh day with no sign of a resolution. </p><br /><br />
<p> • Some 3.3 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2015—and some 2 million more might <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/uqqnndkckynshhhgsgydmszkjqsddzcgmghcqmfhqnmnp_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">follow</a> the same path in 2019, according to United Nations estimates.</p><br /><br />
<p> • The sky over New York City <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/qwsggbrdrngtmmmvtvnbhtjrcwtbbjdvhvmdwhfmwghgh_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">turned</a> blue Thursday night after a transformer explosion. </p><br /><br />
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<p> • More than 4,600 people in Indonesia <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/vvkhhtzyzrhnfffknkrtmnqzcvnttqykmkfyvmgfvhmhy_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">died or disappeared</a> in a series of natural disasters in 2018.</p><br /><br />
<p> • North and South Korea <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/ayphhwglgbhnmmmynybwsnvgcknwwvlysymlkspmkhspb_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">broke ground</a> on a railway line set to connect the two countries, although trains won’t be able to run due to sanctions.</p><br /><br />
<p> • Two small bombs <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/krdvvgqpqtvjlllrjrtgfjbqzhjggbprfrlphfslhvfsl_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">went off</a> on a beach in southern Thailand, targeting statues. </p><br /><br />
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<p> • A minority of European voters <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/ldqjjychczjrmmmdrdzyqrfclkryyfhdqdmhkqnmkjqnk_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">think</a> they will be better off in five years than they are now.</p><br /><br />
<p> • Russia <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/aylhhwglgbhnmmmynybwsnvgcknwwvlysymlkspmkhspd_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">completed</a> a border fence along the frontier between Russia-annexed Crimea and Ukraine’s Kherson region.</p><br /><br />
<p> • Jean-Jacques Savin, a 71-year-old Frenchman, <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/smjmmdhphjmtbbbctcjdltzhgrtddzpclcbprlkbrmlkc_ersryttrdfrbthddhrrp.html">set off</a> across the Atlantic in a large barrel-shaped capsule that he built himself, guided only by currents.</p><br /><br />
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