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A final week-long round of talks on a treaty to end plastic pollution has opened in Busan, South Korea, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately. The ‘high ambition coalition' – which includes France – will be fighting for a legally binding framework that will definitively curtail global plastic…

Man, 26, doubled food intake to deliberatly gain weight, the court heard

South Korea has paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines in a memorial ceremony

Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis of plastic pollution

The 26-year-old, who now works behind a desk at a government agency, had his methods uncovered by officials

Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea, for talks to agree a global plastic pollution treaty.

Japan's memorial ceremony at Sado Island Gold Mines, marred by South Korea's boycott, highlights historical tensions over Korean forced labor during WWII.

Japan will go ahead with a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, despite South Korea’s last-minute boycott of the event that highlighted tensions between the neighbors over the issue of Korean forced laborers at the site before and during World War II

South Korea’s government says it has decided not to attend a memorial service near Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines due to disagreements with Japan over the event, which stirred longstanding tensions over the abuse of Korean forced laborers at the site before the end of World War II

Japan will hold a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, which were listed this summer as a UNESCO World Heritage site after the country moved past years of disputes with South Korea and reluctantly acknowledged the dark side of their history

Pictures show North Korean tankers repeatedly loading oil at Russian port, report by UK group claims