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WION Morning News Brief, January 9, 2018

WION Web Team
New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaUpdated: Jan 09, 2018, 04:02 AM IST
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After earthquakes hit the country in 2001, Salvadorans were granted Temporary Protected Status or TPS and their permits have been renewed on an 18-month basis since then. Photograph:(Reuters)

North and South Korea began talks in the border truce village of Panmunjom today as tensions between the two countries over Kim's repeated ballistic tests faded.

US President Donald Trump would gladly face Oprah Winfrey as an opponent in the 2020 presidential race, a White House spokesman said on Monday after social media buzz from her speech at an award show thrust her name into the political arena.

The United States has announced to terminate the provisional residency permits of about 2,00,000 Salvadorans living in the country since 2001.

In order to achieve the mission of "tightening control" over internet content, China banned 128,000 websites containing obscene information, a report said.

Google doodle honoured Indian American biochemist, Har Gobind Khorana who shared 1968 Nobel Prize for physiology or medician with Marshall W Nirenberg and Robert W Holley on his 96th birthday.