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South Korea’s Moon has ‘deep regret’ over scrapped Trump-Kim summit: Seoul

South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed regret early today over US President Donald Trump’s decision to call off his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and urged the pair to hold direct talks, Seoul’s presidential office said.

At an emergency national security meeting, Moon said it was “deeply regrettable that the US-North Korea summit will not take place as scheduled” after Trump pulled out of the high-stakes talks arranged for June 12 in Singapore.

“The denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and permanent peace is a historic task that cannot be given up or delayed,” Moon said, adding that it would be difficult to resolve thorny diplomatic issues through the current method of communication between the US and North Korea.

“I hope that the leaders resolve the issue through more direct and close dialogue between themselves,” he said.

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Facebook won’t pay compensation for Cambridge Analytica case

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Facebook says it will not compensate users in the scandal over the misuse of their personal data by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

The company made the statement today in a list of written replies to questions by European Union lawmakers. The answers were promised after testimony earlier this week by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Brussels had left EU lawmakers frustrated about a lack of responses.

Cambridge Analytica used the data of millions of Facebook users to target ads during political campaigns, including the US presidential vote.

EU lawmakers said that would make Facebook liable for compensation toward EU users.

Facebook said that was a “breach of trust,” but no bank account details had been shared. And it said there was no evidence EU user data had been involved.

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