Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Jan. 9
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SEOUL -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea have agreed at the just-ended inter-Korean dialogue to hold separate military talks, with the DPRK also consenting to send a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics to be hosted by Seoul next month, Seoul's Unification Ministry said Tuesday.
The DPRK reopened a military hotline with South Korea across the western border Tuesday.
Two five-member delegations from both sides held the high-level, inter-governmental dialogue at Peace House, a South Korean building in the truce village of Panmunjom that straddles the heavily guarded border between the two neighbors. (South Korea-DPRK)
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday blamed the foreigners, including the United States and Israel, for inciting recent unrests in a number of Iranian cities, semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
"Clues and intelligence evidence show that these events have been orchestrated (by enemies), and a triple party has been involved in bringing it about," ISNA quoted Khamenei as saying. (Iran-US-Israel)
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TOKYO -- Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Tuesday that Japan cannot accept South Korea's new policy position on a deal struck in 2015 between the two countries over Japan's wartime conscription of "comfort women."
"The steady implementation of this agreement is both countries' duty to the international community," Kono was quoted as telling a press briefing on the matter, following South Korea announcing its policy position. (Japan-South Korea-Comfort Women)
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JOHANNESBURG -- Two trains collided in Geldenhuys Train Station, Germiston, a small city east of Johannesburg in South Africa on Tuesday morning, leaving 226 passengers injured.
Metrorail spokesperson Lilian Mofokeng said at the scene that the incident happened at around 6:45 a.m.,as a train crashed into another stationery train from the back at the platform. The moving train was actually authorized to get into the same section. (South Africa-Train Accident) Enditem