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After a fantastically feel-good summit between North and South Korea, it seems the peninsula might be nearing some kind of reunification. Talks of denuclearizing the island have been surfacing, but many critics are doubtful that the move will come through - as is the case with James Dwyer, teaching fellow at the University of Tasmania.

Even dogs are turning to veganism!

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday held a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the two leaders discussed the Iran nuclear program, Syrian crisis and agreed to meet as soon as possible, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said.

Canberra has sent its most advanced P-8 Poseidon early warning aircraft north to monitor potential violations of sanctions meant to put pressure on Pyongyang, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told reporters on Saturday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Militants on Sunday fired four rockets at the Syrian city of Homs, killing two and injuring another 13 people, the Russian Center for Syrian reconciliation said Monday.

Contrail loops resembling a penis were recently spotted in the sky over the United States’ Ramstein Air Force Base in southwestern Germany, causing people to question whether the phallic-looking pattern was created intentionally by military aircraft or just an innocent mistake.

The cryptocurrency economy has shown tremendous growth over the last year and a half, and digital asset supporters are naturally very fond of keeping track of price spikes and falls regularly.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said on Monday during a joint press conference that there are various sites still in consideration for his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, including Singapore and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), but that he likes the look of being on the North-South Korean border.

The popular American meat producer says the newly introduced digital coin is the only one backed by “the gold standard of bacon,” as it has billed itself in an official statement.

GENEVA (Sputnik) - At least four people died and another 10 suffered hypothermia as a result of the storm in the Swiss Alps, the canton of Valais’ police said Monday in a statement.

The head of Taiwan’s Defense Ministry told lawmakers on Monday that US M1A2 Abrams tanks will be required to defend the island in the event of a conflict with China.

South Carolina inmates have had enough of their continued poor treatment at the hands prison staff and the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) following an uprising at Lee Correctional Institution and are now planning a coordinated prison strike with inmates in five different states across the country in response.

Tennessee police used a taser stun gun on a nurse at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga on Thursday after he refused to leave the emergency room where his mother was being treated. Officers charged the nurse with two counts of assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

A two-year-old boy who had died nearly a week after his life support was withdrawn was at the center of a long legal debate over his treatment. A former UKIP member, Steve Woolfe, launched a campaign to change the law calling for more power for parents to decide on their children’s medical care.

The Sh-405, a Shchuka ('Pike') class medium-size diesel electric torpedo sub was discovered near Seskar Island, about 100 kilometers west of St. Petersburg.

Waffle Houses across the restaurant’s home state of Georgia have become protest sites after video footage of a 25-year-old black woman being violently arrested at a Waffle House in Saraland, Alabama, was released last week.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - North Korea’s leaders are concerned that the genuine progress they have made in negotiations with South Korea can still be blocked or overturned by the United States, retired Canadian diplomat Patrick Armstrong told Sputnik.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Panasonic Avionics (PAC), a division of the Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, has agreed to pay $280 million in criminal and regulatory penalties to settle charges that it hid bribes to foreign officials as payments to consultants, the US Department of Justice announced in a press release on Monday.

There have been calls for the US President to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize if North Korea ends its nuclear program following Friday's historic North-South talks. Sputnik discussed Trump's role in the rapprochement with Robert Winstanley-Chesters, North Korea expert and Research Fellow at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

St. Petersburg resident Pyotr Nazarov had a near-death experience Sunday after falling under a replica of the World War II-era T-60 tank he and others were riding during a historical festival in the northern Russian city.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) informant Grigory Rodchenkov, on Monday filed a lawsuit in the US against former head of the Russian Biathlon Union Mikhail Prokhorov, who was financially backing a defamation lawsuit filed by three Russian female biathletes against the whistleblower, Rodchenkov’s lawyer Jim Walden said.

The US president said Monday that the US's likely withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would send a "positive signal" to North Korea.

The UN Security Council should take immediate action to ensure that the rights of Palestinians are protected. This is what Palestine's Ambassador to the UN - Riyad Mansour - stated as the Great March of Return protests on the Gaza border entered its fifth consecutive week. Sputnik discussed this with Eran Etzion, an Israeli diplomat and strategist.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - An American service member has been killed during a combat operation in Eastern Afghanistan and a second service member wounded, NATO's Operation Resolute Support announced in a press release on Monday.

According to the prime minister, Israel has a proof of 'secret' Iranian nuclear program.