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 Seoul (AFP) Nov 14, 2009 
North Korea vowed Friday to take "merciless" military action to protect its Yellow Sea border with South Korea and warned that Seoul would pay dearly for a naval clash this week. "Our side reminds your side again that there exists only a demarcation line in the West Sea (Yellow Sea) set by our side, and from this moment on we will take merciless military measures to protect it," its military ... read more
Islamabad (AFP) Nov 13, 2009Pakistan on Friday angrily rejected a US newspaper report that China provided the nuclear-armed Muslim state with weapons grade uranium for two bombs in 1982. A spokesman for Pakistan's foreign ministry rejected the allegations in a Washington Post article as "baseless." "Pakistan strongly rejects the assertions in the article that is evidently timed to malign Pakistan and China," the ... more
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Nuclear monitor defends Ukraine plant visit via Russia-controlled territory
Iran's former top diplomat Zarif resigns from VP post Italy breaks 'taboo' with push to revive nuclear North Korea held 'strategic cruise missile' launch drill this week: state media Iran slams Israel threats as 'outrageous' after Israeli FM warns of 'military option' A French-UK nuclear umbrella for Europe? Not likely, say analysts Iran significantly increased stocks of highly enriched uranium: IAEA Bangladesh calls for continued Russian nuclear collaboration Iran denounces new US sanctions as 'sign of hostility' Iran rules out 'direct talks' with US on nuclear issue 
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Singapore (AFP) Nov 15, 2009President Barack Obama on Sunday won the strongest backing yet from Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the Iranian nuclear crisis as the US leader warned that Tehran was "running out of time". Obama expressed frustration with Iran's failure to give an answer three weeks after it received a UN-brokered offer aimed at defusing the stand-off, while Medvedev suggested that even Russian ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 14, 2009Barack Obama insisted that the United States was a "Pacific" power and vowed to deepen its engagement in the region as he started his first Asian tour as US president. "The United States will strengthen our alliances, build new partnerships and we will be part of multilateral efforts and regional institutions that advance regional security and prosperity," he said Friday in Tokyo. ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Nov 13, 2009North Korea can achieve security and prosperity if it honours its commitment to give up nuclear weapons, US President Barack Obama said in an interview published Friday. The impoverished communist state's nuclear and missile programmes are a grave concern to the world and make the North itself less secure, he told South Korea's Yonhap news agency in a written interview. But "negotiations ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 13, 2009President Barack Obama is leaning towards a compromise strategy on troops to Afghanistan, officials said, amid a fierce debate over whether more soldiers should be sent to back up Kabul's flawed government. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that Obama was seeking to show a strong US commitment to Afghanistan while also conveying to President Hamid Karzai's corruption-tainted ... more 
Helsinki, Finland (UPI) Nov 13, 2009 One hopes that the Obama administration's soon-to-be-announced new strategy for Afghanistan will at least be as successful as the Soviet strategy executed between 1986 and 1992. The McChrystal plan, presumably the basis for the Obama strategy, will initially focus on critical high-population areas that are contested or controlled by insurgents, not because the enemy is present but ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 13, 2009France's special envoy to North Korea, Jack Lang, said Friday following a five-day visit to the reclusive state that Pyongyang had agreed to an "exchange" with Paris on human rights issues. "The top leaders announced that as a special gesture to France, they had accepted our proposal for an exchange on human rights with France," Lang told AFP in an interview shortly after his arrival in ... more |
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