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Giuliani: Kim Jong-un 'begged' for summit to take place

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Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said North Korea's leader "begged" for their summit to be rescheduled after the US president cancelled it. Speaking at a conference in Israel, Mr Giuliani said Mr Trump's tough stance had forced Pyongyang's hand. Mr Trump called off the summit in May, accusing North Korea of "tremendous anger and open hostility". But plans for the 12 June bilateral in Singapore were revived after a conciliatory response from Pyongyang. Mr Giuliani was speaking at an investment conference in Israel when he made the remark. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Mr Giuliani said: "Well, Kim Jong-un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in." Trump-Kim to meet on Sentosa island What not to say to North Korea Dennis Rodman: The Trump-Kim matchmaker? How Kim the outcast became popular Mr Giuliani is an attorney for the president tackling the Russia collusio
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​How Android is helping keep a Pakistani language alive

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​How Android is helping keep a Pakistani language alive

Google builds a keyboard that lets residents of Pakistan's Swat Valley type on Android phones in Torwali, their endangered native language.


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View of Bahrain, the main town of the Torwali community, in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
You've likely never heard of Torwali, one of 27 highly-endangered Pakistani languages. But now its roughly 80,000 speakers can use their native language to text and make status updates on their Android phones.
Zubair Torwali, who heads up an organization that works to promote northern Pakistan's languages, explained in Google's Asia blog Friday how a Google engineer helped his group build Torwali into a virtual Google keyboard, or Gboard. It can be used by Android phones running Jelly Bean or higher.
Amid mounting pressures to speak the dominant Pashto language, Torwali only just got a written alphabet about a decade ago, Zubair Towali said.
Now it can be tweeted!

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