Seoul, June 16
North Korea on Sunday proposed talks with the United States to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Tensions have been high between North Korea and South Korea and its ally the United...
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Seoul, Jun 15
North Korea today made a fresh vow to build up its nuclear deterrent in the face of “threats of war” from the US and a “policy of confrontation” from the South.
An editorial in Pyongyang’...
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Washington, June 13
Nine months after the US ambassador to Libya was killed in an attack, Secretary of State John Kerry has sworn in a new envoy, vowing she would play a key role as the country moves toward democracy...
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Cairo/Geneva
The number of people killed in Syria’s civil war has climbed to at least 93,000, according to UN human rights estimates relating to the month of April and released on Thursday.The death rat...
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Seoul, Jun 9
North and South Korea held their first official talks for years today, confronting decades of mutual distrust in a search for some positive end to months of soaring military tensions.
The...
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Seoul, June 7
North Korea said it would restore an official hotline with rival South Korea, but pushed back at Seoul’s proposal of ministerial-level talks to be held in Seoul next week.
Pyongyang’s Com...
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Washington, June 1
US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed fresh doubt that Iran’s presidential elections would change Tehran’s controversial nuclear policy.
“I do not have high expectations that the ele...
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Brussels, May 28
The European Union said its member states within days will be able to send weapons to help Syria’s outgunned rebels, seeking to pressure President Bashar Assad’s regime ahead of planned peace talk...
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Kathmandu, June 16
Normal life was thrown out of gear across Nepal today as 44 different parties, including CPN-Maoist, imposed a general strike to protest the announcement of the date of new Constituent Assembly po...
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United Nations, June 15
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has said that arming either side in the Syria conflict “would not be helpful” after the US said it would step up military aid to rebels. “The military path points dire...
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Istanbul, Jun 14
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan today agreed to halt plans to redevelop an Istanbul park at the centre of two weeks of mass anti-government unrest, in a move protesters welcomed as “p...
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Washington, June 14
The United States will begin sending military assistance to the rebels in Syria after its intelligence services confirmed that chemical weapons have been used in the conflict, the White House said...
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Seoul, June 13
South Korea never had any intention of holding peace talks with North Korea this week, Pyongyang said on Thursday, following the cancellation of a high-level meeting between the two neighbours, So...
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Jammu, Jun 7
A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was killed when Pakistan opened heavy fire with automatic weapons and rockets on Indian posts along the LoC in Poonch sector today, in the third ceasefire viola...
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Washington, June 4
North Korea may be just one to two months away from following through on its threat to restart a plutonium reactor that can produce fissile material for nuclear bombs, a US research institute said...
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Washington, May 30
Reiterating its commitment to bring political change in Syria through peaceful and diplomatic options, the Obama Administration has noted that the Assad regime in Syria remains in a vulnerable pos...
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Beirut, May 27
International efforts to end the unrest in Syria accelerated today with key talks in Paris and Brussels, amid a push for a new peace conference despite growing divisions within the Syrian oppositi...
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