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Inside Pyongyang as Rare North Korean Congress Begins

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North Korea stages rare party congress; Deadly air strike in Syria; Latest sports news

The first full congress of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party for thirty-six years is being held in Pyongyang. Thousands of delegates are at the four-day gathering, which is seen as an opportunity for the leader, Kim Jong-un, to cement his status.

A senior United Nations official says an air strike on a Syrian refugee camp, which is feared to have killed at least thirty people, could amount to a war crime. The UN's humanitarian affairs chief, Stephen O'Brien, has called for an investigation into the attack, in Idlib province, near the Turkish border.

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