News Headlines - 17 January 2018
▽PLO leaders threaten to freeze Oslo accords - NHK WORLD
Palestinian officials have threatened to freeze the historic Oslo peace accords in response to US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel... Delegates agreed to freeze the Oslo peace accords unless Israel recognizes a Palestinian state with borders based on the lines set before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
▽European Car Sales Rise to 10-Year High on Peugeot, Renault SUVs - Bloomberg
Registrations in 2017 increased 3.3 percent to 15.6 million vehicles, the Brussels-based European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA, said Wednesday in a statement. The figure was the highest since a record 16 million autos were delivered in 2007.
Henry Bolton has ended the "romantic element" of his ties to a young model after her headline-inducing comments about Meghan Markle. But the scandal surrounding the leader has opened the lid on deeper UKIP struggles.
▽Margaret Atwood faces feminist backlash for #MeToo op-ed - BBC News
Author Margaret Atwood has sparked a Twitter storm after a provocative column on the Me Too anti-sexual harassment movement.
Her op-ed published in the Globe and Mail newspaper questioned the impact of the movement against inappropriate sexual behaviour.
Ms Atwood called the movement a "symptom" of a broken legal system.
▽Arrest warrants issued for former Blue House officials in bribery case : The Hankyoreh
Prosecutors requested arrest warrants on Jan. 14 for Kim Baek-joon and Kim Jin-mo in connection with their investigation into illicit National Intelligence Service (NIS) payments to the Blue House under former President Lee Myung-bak (2008–13). Kim Baek-joon, 78, is a former Blue House general affairs and planning secretary popularly known as Lee’s “steward,” while Kim Jin-mo, 52, is a former Seoul Nambu District Prosecutors’ Office chief who served as Blue House second civil affairs secretary during the Lee administration.
