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China's Hu invites N.Korean leadership to visitBeijing (AFP) Oct 11, 2010 Chinese President Hu Jintao has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and the country's new ruling line-up to visit China, state media said Monday, as Kim moves his son into position to succeed him. The invitation was extended on Hu's behalf by a senior Chinese official who attended a massive military parade in Pyongyang on Sunday to mark the North Korean ruling party's 65th anniversary, China's Xinhua news agency said. Hu invited "General Secretary Kim Jong-Il and the comrades of the new cent ... read more |
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Rome (AFP) Oct 12, 2010Italy will start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in summer 2011, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Monday, as a funeral was held for four Italian soldiers killed in the war-torn nation. "Italy is... thinking about the withdrawal of its troops at the right moment and in complete coordination with its allies," Frattini said in an interview published in La Repubblica daily. Refer ... more  
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 10, 2010Thousands of goose-stepping soldiers marched past the tomb of Vietnam's founding president Ho Chi Minh on Sunday for the country's largest military display in years. The parade, part of a ceremony for the city of Hanoi's millennium celebrations, is a display of national pride that also sends a subtle message to Vietnam's giant neighbour China with the two sides in dispute over territory in t ... more  
Tehran (AFP) Oct 10, 2010A Sunni militant group in Iran has claimed it kidnapped a man working at a nuclear facility and has threatened to spill his secrets if members of the group held by Tehran are not released. Jundallah (Soldiers of God) said on its website junbish.blogspot.com late on Saturday that it was holding hostage Amir Hossein Shirani, an "employee at a nuclear plant" in Iran's central province of Isfaha ... more |
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Nobel Peace Prize award has China ventingBeijing (UPI) Oct 11, 2010 While China fumes over the Nobel Peace Prize going to a jailed dissident, his wife is under house arrest for informing him of his award. The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China," a statement from the Nobel awarding committee in Oslo, Norway, said. But "the incarcerated Chinese criminal," as he was described in the online version of the English-language Chinese newspaper Global Times, has been langui ... read more |
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