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Plight of ordinary people being overlooked amid focus on missile launches and rising tensions between Pyongyang and Washington UN agencies believe a drought that ravaged crops this summer will leave the North unable to properly feed many of its people Photograph: James Gourley/REX/Shutterstock Justin McCurry in Osaka Sanctions and the worst drought for almost two decades threaten to cause severe hardship for millions of people in North Korea , while the country’s leadership continues to plough scarce resources into its missile and nuclear programmes, according to UN agencies and those with contacts in the impoverished nation. A drought that ravaged crops earlier this summer will leave the North unable to properly feed many of its people, including soldiers in the country’s million-strong army, the groups have warned. Two North Korean shipments to Syria intercepted in six months, UN told While living standards have improved for some North K...

Latest Brexit policy paper leaves open possibility of European court of justice retaining say on UK law The shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, said European judges would have to be involved in a system to address Brexit issues. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Heather Stewart and Rowena Mason T Theresa May was accused of a climbdown over the future sovereignty of British courts after a newly published government paper appeared to leave open the possibility that the European court of justice would influence UK law after Brexit. The latest of a flurry of Brexit policy papers, due to be published on Wednesday, will repeat the government’s insistence that the “direct jurisdiction” of the Luxembourg-based ECJ must end when Britain leaves the EU in March 2019. But it will set out a range of options for resolving future disputes between Britain and the EU – over the rules of any new trade deal, for example – some of which are likely to involve European judg...

Mkoa wa Iringa unakabiriwa na tatizo la hosteli kwa wanafunzi kwa kiasi kubwa si tu kwa wanafunzi wa vyuo vikuu, bali hata kwa wanafunzi wanaosoma katika shule za sekondari.  Hayo yalisemwa jana na Katibu Tawala Msaidizi, Uchumi na Sekta za Uzalishaji, Fikira Kisimba kwa niaba ya Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Iringa Amina Masenza wakati wa akifungua semina ya elimu kwa uma kuhusu mikopo ya nyumba Tanzania.  Alisema kuwa wanafunzi wengi hasa vijijini wanakaa mbali na maeneo ya shule hivyo huwapasa kutembea muda mrefu na kufika shuleni wamechoka na kushindwa kufuata vizuri mosomo yao.  Aidha Kisimba alisema kuwa Mkoa wa Iringa umejipanga vyema kuwa kitovu cha utalii na uwekezaji, juhudi hizo zote zinahitaji ukuaji wa haraka wa sekta ya nyumba. Alisema kuwa wanahitaji kuwa na hoteli za kisasa, super markets za kisasa, kumbi za mikutano na hasa kwa kuzingatia makao makuu ya serikali sasa yamehamia mjini Dodoma, mji ambao ni jirani na Iringa.  “Tunajukumu kubwa la k...