News Headlines - 06 March 2018

▽Two Koreas Agree to Hold Summit at End of April /KBS World Radio

The first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade will take place next month.
Announcing the outcome of a two-day visit to Pyongyang, South Korea's chief presidential envoy Chung Eui-yong said Tuesday that the two Koreas have agreed on a meeting between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the border truce village of Panmunjeom at the end of April.

▽After Park, former South Korean President Lee summoned over bribery allegations

South Korean prosecutors have called former President Lee Myung-bak to appear for questioning over allegations he took bribes when in office, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in the latest top-level political corruption scandal to rock the country.

▽South Africa listeria: Source of 'world's worst outbreak' found - BBC News

South Africa says it has finally traced the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed 180 people in the past year - said to make it the worst in history.
The source is a factory operated by Enterprise Foods in Polokwane in Limpopo.
More facilities are being tested to see if they contributed to the outbreak which infected almost 1,000 people.

▽Woman in Russian spy mystery is Sergei Skripal's daughter | The Guardian

The second person found unconscious in Salisbury alongside the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is his 33-year-old daughter.
Yulia Skripal was discovered on a bench next to her father on Sunday and is in a critical condition in hospital. She lives in Russia but was visiting the UK, the BBC reported, adding that relatives had not heard from her for two days.

▽Poisoned umbrellas and polonium: Russian-linked UK deaths | The Guardian

Salisbury’s former spy is not the first Russian to fall ill in Britain in mysterious circumstances
Georgi Markov, September 1978
Alexander Litvinenko, November 2006
German Gorbuntsov, March 2012
Alexander Perepilichnyy, November 2012
Boris Berezovsky, March 2013
Scot Young, December 2014