Trump: North Korea is 'behaving very badly, and it's got to stop'

President Donald Trump on Thursday again refused to rule out U.S. military action in North Korea, telling reporters that the nuclear-armed dictatorship has been "behaving very badly, and it's got to stop."
"I would prefer not going the route of the military, but it's something certainly that could happen," the president said at a White House press conference with the visiting Emir of Kuwait.
Lauding the recent U.S. military buildup in and around the Korean peninsula, Trump said, "Hopefully we're not going to have to use [military force]. But if we do, it will be a very sad day for North Korea."

South Korean Leader Says Putin Has 'Soul of a Siberian Tiger'

South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in and Vladimir Putin Kremlin Press Service

South Korea’s president described Vladimir Putin as embodying the “spirit of a Siberian tiger” in a speech at the Eastern Economic Forum in in the Russian Far East on Thursday.
“Many believe that your spirit, Mr. President, is that of an Amur tiger,” President Moon Jae-in said at the forum’s plenary session.

69-year-old retiree pleads guilty to stabbing wife to death

SINGAPORE: A 69-year-old retiree was on Friday (Sep 8) convicted of culpable homicide for killing his wife with a knife and chopper in a “savage” attack last March.
Kong Peng Yee was initially charged with murder, but the charge was reduced after it emerged that he had been suffering from a brief psychotic episode at the time he killed Mdm Wong Chik Yeok, his wife of 36 years.

Why I won’t be attending Justin Welby’s Anglican summit – Primate Nicholas Okoh

The influential Archbishop of Nigeria is rejecting an invitation to the forthcoming summit of Anglican leaders hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury in October.
Nicholas Okoh rebuked Justin Welby in a letter explaining his refusal to attend, saying he had overseen a ‘repeated failure to preserve’ conservative teaching on sexuality.
Nicholas Okoh is the Archbishop, Metropolitan and Primate of All Nigeria as well as being chair of GAFCON.

Nigeria's praised but unpaid Ebola heroes

In October 2014, Nigeria received universal praise for its swift and efficient tackling of the Ebola pandemic which had struck West African neighbours Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
But the core team of staff from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) who led the effort have since quit their jobs, because their salaries had not been paid for nearly three years.
"If they play back the clock, they won't get me to do that job again," says Dr Kenneth Madiebo, the 53-year-old medic who dealt with the body of Patrick Sawyer, the first identified Ebola case Nigeria in 2014.

This could be the easiest year to make money since 1993

So far at least, 2017 has proven an uncommonly easy year to make money.
Despite a recent spate of anxiety-provoking events, many major assets are significantly higher on the year. The S&P 500 has risen 10 percent, gold futures are up 16 percent and Treasury bonds (judging by the popular Barclays long-term Treasury bond index) has gained 6 percent.
Nearly four full months remain ahead of us. But if 2017 were to end today, it would go down as the first year in which all three have risen by more than 5 percent since 1993, according to a CNBC analysis of FactSet data.

Putin says sanctions, pressure alone won't resolve North Korea crisis

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia/SEOUL (Reuters) - Resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis is impossible with sanctions and pressure alone, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after meeting his South Korean counterpart, adding that the impact of cutting oil would be worrying.

Putin met South Korea’s Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of an economic summit in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok amid mounting international concern that their neighbor plans more weapons tests, possibly a long-range missile launch ahead of a weekend anniversary.

Putin denounced North Korea’s sixth and largest nuclear bomb test on Sunday, saying Russia did not recognize its nuclear status.