- North Korea has accepted South Korea's offer of peace talks next week in order to try to defuse tensions between the two countries over Pyongyang's nuclear tests.
- The Department of Justice is opening another investigation into the Clinton Foundation, FBI agents in Little Rock have begun witness interviews and are taking the lead on the probe.
- As anti-regime protests in Iran continue into their second week, Iran's army chief is claiming that unrest has been quelled but that the military is ready to deal with any new demonstrations.
- Angola is the latest OPEC nation to ditch the dollar as a currency peg as oil exporters are still trying to recover from the 2014 oil price crash.
- 2017 saw America take the lead again in space mission launches, powered by commercial spaceflight company SpaceX with 18 of 29 US launches last year.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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