- Reuters
South Korea to suspend military agreement with North Korea over trash ballons
South Korea plans to suspend a military agreement signed with North Korea in 2018 aimed at easing tensions, the presidential office said on Monday, after Seoul warned of a strong response to balloons launched by Pyongyang carrying trash to the South. North Korea has launched hundreds balloons carried by wind across the border that dropped trash throughout South Korea, which called it a provocation and rejected Pyongyang's claim it was done to inconvenience its neighbour. The National Security Council said it would raise the plan to suspend the military agreement for approval by the cabinet at a meeting on Tuesday.
- RFI
Paris wards off tiger mosquito scourge ahead of Olympics
A campaign to monitor and trap tiger mosquitos in Paris is in full swing weeks ahead of the Olympics. Authorities are worried that travellers will exacerbate a surge in diseases such as dengue fever. On the outskirts of the Stade de France, in the north of Paris where a number of Olympic events will be held, Kevin Meignan checks a nesting trap installed a few weeks ago in a grass-lined pathway.Meignan works for the Regional Mosquito Control Agency (ARD), part of the regional ARS health service.T
- The Telegraph
Anna Steiger: ‘My stepfather Philip Roth wanted to control the household – and I was in the way’
Anna Steiger was put off acting by her parents, Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. “I knew what a rotten, stinking profession acting can be,” she says. “And I didn’t want to be compared to them.”
