North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official sign a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student from Pyongyang in 2017.
The presentation of the invoice – not previously disclosed by U.S. or North Korean officials – was extraordinarily brazen even for a regime known for its aggressive tactics.
But the main U.S. envoy sent to retrieve Warmbier signed an agreement to pay the medical bill on instructions passed down from President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the situation. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

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U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) will apparently not be meeting directly with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu during his trip to the Jewish state this week, reported The Times of Israel on Wednesday.
Netanyahu will also not meet with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is traveling with Romney, according to TOI.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met today in Vladivostok, Russia, for the very first summit between the two leaders, The Guardian reports.
Kim reportedly praised Putin when his train first rolled into Khasan, saying, “I have heard a lot of good things about your country and wanted to visit it for a long time… Seven years have passed since I took charge of the country, but I did not have a chance to visit Russia until now.” The North Korean leader also told Russia’s state-owned Rossiya-24 that he’d like to reach a “settlement of the situation in the Korean Peninsula” and hoped the visit would be “successful and useful.”

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden launched a full-on attack of President Donald Trump in his video announcing his campaign for the White House, calling Trump’s term in office “an abhorrent moment in time.”
In the video, Biden speaks over footage of the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi marches in Charlottesville, Virginia, describing those involved as having “crazed faces, illuminated by torches.”

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The body of a young man who went swimming in the Kinneret lake and apparently drowned was found at the end of extensive searches conducted this morning.
The young man was extracted from the water without vital signs, and the MDA teams summoned to the scene were forced to determine his death.
The Kinneret Authority stresses that swimmers bathe only on declared beaches with rescue services, and to listen to instructions of lifeguards and inspectors to protect the safety of vacationers and swimmers.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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After months of deliberation, former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his decision to run for president for a third time, answering one of the biggest outstanding questions about the makeup of the 2020 race.
In his campaign announcement video, Biden rebuked the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 and President Donald Trump’s handling of the aftermath.
“He said there were quote some very fine people on both sides,” Biden said. “With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.”

An Emirati woman opened her eyes and regained consciousness after spending 27 years in a coma induced by a serious brain injury, her family said Wednesday.
Munira Omar was 32 when she was injured in a road traffic accident in 1991, after picking up her son Omar from school in the city of Al-Ain. Omar survived — and lived to see his mother awake again, decades later in a hospital bed in Germany, where she had been transferred for medical care.
“I always believed that my mother would get better,” Omar, now 32 himself, told AFP by phone. “Many doctors had told us not to expect much after being in a coma for 15 or 20 years, but I would not accept that.
“This is all in God’s hands, and I never lost hope.”