Bogota (AFP) Sept 6, 2016 - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos says he is certain his government's peace deal with FARC rebels will be approved in an October 2 referendum because an imperfect peace is always preferable to a perfect war.
Washington (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 - The United States said Monday that sanctions slapped on Iran over its nuclear program were weakening its leaders, which is becoming increasingly dependent on the elite Revolutionary Guards.
Washington (AFP) Sept 16, 2010 - International sanctions against Iran are bearing fruit and have sparked a debate inside Tehran's regime, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said Thursday during a US visit.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 15, 2009 - North Korea is making peace overtures because sanctions are biting harder than expected but there are no signs it is willing to give up nuclear weapons, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Tuesday.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 16, 2011 - Thousands of supporters of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr rallied in Baghdad and south Iraq on Friday to decry graft and poor public services, holding up broken appliances to highlight their plight.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2012 - South Korea's top nuclear envoy will visit China this week to discuss ways to resume long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks on North Korea, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 - South Korean media called Monday for Seoul to consider building its own nuclear weapons amid growing doubts over its decades-old alliance with Washington following North Korea's sixth nuclear test.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 24, 2012 - South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak warned on Monday of growing threats to the country's maritime security, posed by North Korea and regional territorial disputes over isolated island chains.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 18, 2012 - South Korea will host a multinational navy drill aimed at curbing trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, its defence ministry said Tuesday, in a move likely to anger North Korea.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 11, 2012 - South Korea will spend $2.3 billion dollars over the next five years to secure tactical weapons targetting North Korea's nuclear weapons facilities and missile bases, a state agency said Tuesday.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 28, 2011 - South Korea will build a naval base near an island claimed by both Seoul and Tokyo so that its warships can deploy faster than Japan's in case of disputes, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 11, 2013 - South Korea will show off a cruise missile capable of surgical strikes on the North Korean leadership when it stages a military parade in Seoul next month, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 30, 2016 - South Korea's Coast Guard said Friday it was investigating the death of three Chinese fishermen in a fire on their vessel after it was boarded by a coastguard patrol for fishing in Korean waters.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 23, 2012 - South Korea and the United States are close to agreement on more than doubling the range of Seoul's ballistic missiles to better guard against threats from North Korea, a report said on Sunday.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 - South Korea's military launched a volley of ballistic missiles simulating an attack on the North's nuclear test site Monday, Seoul said, in an exercise responding to a test of what Pyongyang says was a hydrogen bomb.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 14, 2018 - South Korea launched its first ever missile-capable attack submarine on Friday, despite a recent diplomatic thaw with the nuclear-armed North.
