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March 12th, 2010 - 4:57 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, March 12 (DPA) Extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani military in the ongoing fight with insurgents have further added to human rights concerns in the country, the US State Department said ...
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March 8th, 2010 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
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Seoul, Mar.8 (ANI): North Korea has broadcast a video of its leader Kim Jong-il attending a massive rally to mark the reopening of a textile factory.
According to The Telegraph, the video footage ...
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March 7th, 2010 - 10:18 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, March 7 (DPA) North Korea warned Sunday that South Korea's planned military exercises with the United States would force it to build up its nuclear defences and reverse the process of ...
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March 6th, 2010 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, March 6 (DPA) The US government has joined China in calling on North Korea to restart the stalled six-nation denuclearisation talks, media reports said.
"We would like to see the six-party process ...
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March 6th, 2010 - 12:47 pm ICT by IANS
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By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 6 (IANS) The landmark India-US civil nuclear deal has not complicated efforts to achieve universalisation of the Additional Protocol for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards as ...
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February 28th, 2010 - 4:57 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb.28 (ANI): North Korea may return to nuclear disarmament talks in March or April, the Yonhap news agency said Sunday.
It quoted an unnamed senior South Korean government official, as saying: "We ...
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February 27th, 2010 - 6:12 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb. 27 (ANI): President Barack Obama's professed neutrality in the fight between the UK and Argentina over a Falklands drilling rig has earned him the reputation of being "feeble."
The ...
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February 23rd, 2010 - 4:51 pm ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Feb 23 (IANS) Chinese and North Korean officials Tuesday pledged to enhance cooperation between the two countries at a meeting held here.
Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Communist ...
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February 20th, 2010 - 1:09 pm ICT by ANI
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Princeton (New Jersey, US), Feb.20 (ANI): India is viewed better than Pakistan as a country to visit by Americans.
Gallup's annual World Affairs survey, which was released on Friday, said 66 percent of ...
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February 19th, 2010 - 10:19 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Feb 19 (DPA) North Korea said Friday it would not trade its nuclear weapons for "petty" economic aid and announced no-sail zones ahead of artillery exercises near the disputed maritime border ...
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February 19th, 2010 - 9:47 pm ICT by IANS
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By Arun Kumar
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) India ranked sixth among 20 nations favourably viewed by Americans that figured prominently in the news or US foreign policy in the first year of the ...
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February 19th, 2010 - 11:42 am ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb.19 (ANI): Ignoring Chinese anger, US President Obama met Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the Map Room of the White House for more than an hour on Thursday.
Aware that ...
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February 18th, 2010 - 2:59 pm ICT by BNO News
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PYONGYANG (BNO NEWS) -- A strong earthquake struck the Chinese, Russian and North Korean border region on Thursday, seismologists said. No damage is expected.
The earthquake, which struck around 70 miles northeast of ...
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February 18th, 2010 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Feb 18 (IANS) A magnitude 6.5 earthquake jolted the border region between China and Russia Thursday morning, according to China Earthquake Networks Centre (CNEC).
The CNEC said that the quake struck ...
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February 18th, 2010 - 11:03 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Feb 18 (IANS) A magnitude 6.7 earthquake Thursday struck the border region of China, Russia and North Korea, Xinhua reported.
The quake struck at around 0113 GMT. The epicentre was located 110 ...
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February 17th, 2010 - 11:31 pm ICT by IANS
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Bangalore, Feb 17 (IANS) US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer Wednesday favoured India talking to Pakistan Feb 25 despite the terror blast in Pune that killed 11 and hoped the talks would be ...
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February 15th, 2010 - 3:08 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Feb 15 (ANI): Former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson wants an immediate return to football after his nightmare at Notts County, and said he ready to work anywhere like a gypsy. ...
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February 13th, 2010 - 9:52 am ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Feb 13 (DPA) North Korean officials are "not eager" to resume six-nation talks on ending their nation's nuclear weapons programme, though they have not ruled out a return to dialogue, a ...
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February 12th, 2010 - 11:44 pm ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Feb 12 (DPA) North Korea officials are "not eager" to resume six-nation talks on ending their nation's nuclear weapons programme, though they have not ruled out a return to dialogue, a ...
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February 11th, 2010 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Feb 11 (DPA) Seoul and Tokyo Thursday called on Pyongyang to return to nuclear disarmament talks without preconditions.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwan and his Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada, speaking ...
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February 11th, 2010 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
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Bangkok, Feb 11 (RIA Novosti) A Thai criminal court Thursday ordered the release of the crew of a cargo plane that was seized with illegal weaponry from North Korea on board, a ...
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February 8th, 2010 - 2:45 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb.8 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Al Qaeda has grown more "creative and flexible" since 2001.
"I don't see them as stronger. I see that ...
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February 6th, 2010 - 4:05 pm ICT by BNO News
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BEIJING (BNO NEWS) -- An Arizona missionary who was detained in North Korea on Christmas Day was released on Saturday, a news report said.
The South Korean Yonhap news agency reported that Robert ...
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February 6th, 2010 - 3:40 pm ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Feb 6 (DPA) A US missionary arrived here Saturday after being released by North Korea, which had detained him for crossing into its territory on Christmas Day.
Robert Park, 28, landed at ...
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February 5th, 2010 - 2:33 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Feb 5 (DPA) North Korea plans to release a US missionary who has been detained since December after illegally crossing the border from China, the state-run Korea Central News Agency reported ...
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February 4th, 2010 - 4:00 pm ICT by BNO News
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- A U.S. report on Wednesday concluded that North Korea does not meet the statutory criteria to again be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism, President Obama ...
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February 2nd, 2010 - 7:33 am ICT by IANS
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Minsk/Moscow, Feb 2 (DPA) Belarus' authoritarian government Monday ordered even tighter online controls, ordering internet providers to collect personal data and profiles of their users, according to the independent Belarusian news agency ...
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January 30th, 2010 - 3:22 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 30 (DPA) North Korea has informed the US that it has detained a second American citizen who allegedly entered the Stalinist state through China, the US State Department said Friday.
State ...
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January 29th, 2010 - 3:41 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Jan 29 (IANS) North Korea fired artillery shells inside South Korean territory off the west coast of the Yellow Sea, a military official said Thursday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) ...
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January 28th, 2010 - 11:49 am ICT by IANS
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By Arun Kumar
Washington, Jan 28 (IANS) Outlining his vision of a world without nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama says April's Nuclear Security Summit, that would have India participating, would help ensure ...
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January 28th, 2010 - 10:41 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 28 (DPA) Iran and North Korea have become increasingly isolated in the world because of their nuclear ambitions, US President Barack Obama has said.
During his first State of the ...
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January 28th, 2010 - 10:02 am ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Jan 28 (DPA) North Korea Thursday fired artillery shells near the disputed maritime border with South Korea for a second day, media reports said.
The North began firing towards the South Korean ...
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January 27th, 2010 - 5:42 pm ICT by BNO News
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SEOUL (BNO NEWS) -- South Korea returned fire after North Korea opened fire towards a no-sail zone off its coast on Wednesday, news reports said.
The South Korean Yonhap news agency reported, citing ...
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January 27th, 2010 - 5:40 pm ICT by BNO News
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SEOUL (BNO NEWS) -- North Korea fired artillery towards a no-sail zone on Wednesday, the South Korean Yonhap news wire reported, citing officials.
It did not immediately provide further information.
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January 27th, 2010 - 1:46 pm ICT by ANI
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Seoul, Jan. 27 (ANI): North and South Korean forces have engaged in a low intensity clash by exchanging fire near a disputed sea border.
Land-based North Korean artillery targeted waters near the ...
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January 27th, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Jan 27 (DPA) North and South Korea Wednesday exchanged fire in waters off their disputed western sea border, officials and news reports in Seoul said.
North Korea fired several artillery shells into ...
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January 26th, 2010 - 10:35 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Jan 26 (DPA) A North Korean diplomat defected to South Korea this past autumn by seeking asylum at Seoul's embassy in Ethiopia, news reports said Tuesday.
The 40-year-old doctor by training had ...
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January 24th, 2010 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Jan 24 (DPA) North Korea warned Sunday that it regarded South Korea's threat of a military "first strike" as an "open declaration of war", the state-controlled KCNA news agency reported.
Pyongyang's response ...
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January 22nd, 2010 - 2:21 pm ICT by ANI
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Lahore, Jan.22 (ANI): Controversial Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has denied disclosing state secrets to foreign media, saying he only writes columns in newspaper and never discusses such issues in ...
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January 22nd, 2010 - 6:12 am ICT by IANS
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United Nations, Jan 22 (IANS) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on North Korea to free a US man held for illegal entry.
Ban hopes Pyongyang will release Robert Park on humanitarian ...
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