North Korea, Venezuela, Australia: Your Monday Briefing
[The Phnom Penh Post] • Singapore expelled a noted American academic, Huang Jing, accusing him of covert efforts to influence Singapore’s foreign policy "in collaboration with foreign intelligence agents."
[The New York Times] • An Indian boxer, Vijender Singh, offered to return the championship belt he won from a Chinese rival, calling it a peace gesture amid the countries’ border standoff.
_____ Correction: Friday’s briefing misspelled the surname of the author of a 1958 New York Times article on sparkling wine.
[The New York Times] • The police in Berlin arrested the two Chinese tourists for snapping
photos of each other doing a Hitler salute outside the lower house of Parliament.
Here’s what you need to know: • The United States and China appeared to be on the same page on North Korea,
after the United Nations Security Council approved tough new sanctions over its nuclear program.
To fund one, an art auction, that included Ms. Lazarus’s poem, was held in New York in 1883.
[The New York Times] • A Cambodian court sentenced an Australian nurse
and two Cambodian associates to 18 months in prison in the country’s first commercial surrogacy trial.
r huddled masses yearning to breathe free." When the sonnet was added, the poet James Russell Lowell said it gave the statue "a raison d’être which it wanted before quite
as much as it wants a pedestal." Esther Schor, a biographer of Ms. Lazarus, put it this way: "Her poem was a prophecy. that Give me your tired, your poor, you