News Headlines - 09 January 2018

▽North and South Korea Meet, Agree to Future Talks

North and South Korean officials met Tuesday in the border village of Panmunjom. They agreed to hold military talks in an effort to improve relations.
Officials in Seoul and Pyongyang were able to watch the meeting through a closed circuit television connection.

▽Thai foreign minister says fugitive former PM Yingluck in London

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled the country to avoid being jailed over a rice subsidy scheme that lost billions of dollars, is in Britain, Thailand’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.

▽Venezuela's annual inflation at more than 2600%, says opposition

Prices in Venezuela, which is believed to have the world's highest inflation, jumped 2616 per cent last year, the country's opposition-led National Assembly said, as millions suffer from food and medicine shortages during a severe economic crisis.
Opposition politicians, whose numbers are broadly in line with analysts' estimates, on Monday put December's inflation figure alone at 85 per cent, well into hyperinflation territory for which the benchmark is usually 50 per cent.

▽Oscar-winning filmmaker Haggis accused of rape, sex assault

A civil lawsuit charging Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis with raping a publicist has prompted three additional women to come forward with their own sexual misconduct accusations, including another publicist who says he forced her to perform oral sex, then raped her.
One of the other women speaking out told The Associated Press that Haggis tried to sexually assault her. “I need to be inside you,” she recalled him saying, before she managed to run away.

▽Ex-Google engineer fired over gender memo sues for discrimination

A former Google engineer fired after he asserted in a memo that biological causes were behind tech industry gender inequality sued his former employer on Monday, saying he was discriminated against as a white man with conservative political views.