U.S., South Korea hold ceremony for war remains

SEOUL, South Korea — The United States and South Korea held a ceremony on Friday to return home the remains of two servicemen killed during the 1950-53 Korean War.

Seoul’s Defense Ministry said the remains of an unidentified allied soldier, presumably American, found in South Korea in 2016, will be sent to the United States. Meanwhile, the U.S. military has brought to Seoul the remains of a South Korean soldier found in North Korea in 2001 during a joint search between the United States and North Korea.

UNITED NATIONS — THEU.N. Security Council narrowly approved a U.s.-drafted resolution imposing an arms embargo on South Sudan Friday over objections that it could hurt African efforts to end the fiveyear conflict in the world’s newest nation.

The resolution received the minimum nine “yes” votes. The six other council members abstained — Russia, China, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan and Bolivia.

In addition to an immediate arms embargo, the resolution imposes a travel ban and asset freeze on South Sudan’s deputy defense chief for logistics, Malek Reuben Riak Rengu, and former chief of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, Paul Malong Awan.

There were high hopes that South Sudan would have peace and stability after its independence from neighboring Sudan in 2011. But it plunged into ethnic violence in December 2013 when forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, started battling those loyal to Riek Machar, his former vice president, who is a rival Nuer.

A peace deal signed in August

2015 didn’t stop the fighting, and neither did cessation of hostilities agreement this past December and a declaration on June 27.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and forced over 4 million to flee their homes, more