SEOUL -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), arrived at the Russian border town of Khasan early Tuesday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Wednesday.

Kim, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, is paying an official visit to the Russian Federation to put the DPRK-Russia relations of friendship and cooperation to a fresh higher level, KCNA said. (DPRK-Russia-Kim Jong Un)

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WASHINGTON -- The poverty rate in the United States rose to 12.4 percent in 2022, with child poverty more than doubling from 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau report released on Tuesday.

The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which measures whether people have enough resources to cover their needs, increased 4.6 percentage points in 2022 from a year earlier. (US-Poverty)

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TRIPOLI -- The death toll from the devastating floods that struck Libya's eastern city of Derna on Sunday has risen to 3,060, while 5,200 others remain missing, according to the eastern-based Interior Ministry on Tuesday.

"The authorities have buried 2,800 bodies after their families identified them, while 260 unidentified bodies remain in the city's hospital," the ministry spokesman Tareq al-Kharraz told Xinhua. (Libya-Floods-Death toll)

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UNITED NATIONS -- UN humanitarians said on Tuesday the 700,000 children under 5 years old in northeast Nigeria facing severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is double the 2022 figure.

The United Nations and partners are appealing for additional funding to scale up the humanitarian response during the lean season and to address the food security and nutrition crisis in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The children threatened by SAM are among the 4.3 million people at risk of severe hunger. (UN-Nigeria-Malnutrition)

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MARRAKESH -- The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Morocco has risen to 2,901, and the injuries to 5,530, according to the latest statement released by the Moroccan government on Tuesday.

In Ouirgane, one of the hardest-hit villages in the mountainous areas, Xinhua reporters saw all the houses flattened and rescue teams using excavators to clear the debris. (Morocco-Earthquake-Death Toll) Enditem

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