A group of 13 North Koreans who defected from China to South Korea earlier this year have been released from custody, officials say. Seoul’s Unification Ministry said 12 women and one man had begun the process of resettlement in South Korea. They defected in April from a Pyongyang-run restaurant, with Seoul calling the size of the group “unprecedented”. But the ...

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said initial evidence suggests the shooting of a black man by police in Milwaukee was justified. The killing of Sylville Smith in a predominantly African-American part of the city on Saturday led to protests. “We have to obey the laws or we don’t have a country,” Mr Trump told Fox News after visiting ...