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  • South Korea orders reinforcements

    North Korea says it will launch more attacks against South Korea if it continues to make "reckless military provocations", state media has said. "[North Korea] will wage second and even third rounds of attacks without any hesitation, if warmongers in South Korea make reckless military provocations again," the North's KCNA news agency.. More

  • UN issues severe climate warning ahead of summit

    The world is now firmly on the path for dangerous climate change in the coming century, a major new assessment reveals today on the eve of the forthcoming UN climate conference which opens next week in Mexico. All the pledges of the nations which have agreed to cut or limit their emissions of greenhouse gases, when added together, still leave the.. More

  • U.S. aircraft carrier heads for Korean waters

    A U.S. aircraft carrier group set off for Korean waters on Wednesday, a day after North Korea launched artillery shells on a South Korean island, a move likely to enrage Pyongyang and unsettle its ally, China. The nuclear-powered USS George Washington, which carries 75 warplanes and has a crew of over 6,000, left a naval base south of Tokyo and would.. More

  • All trapped N Zealand miners 'dead'

    All 29 miners trapped in a coal mine in New Zealand are believed to be dead, according to police. Wednesday's statement came after a second explosion rocked the Pike River Coal mine. "There was another explosion at the mine. It was extremely severe," Gary Knowles, the police official coordinating the rescue, said. "Based on expert.. More

  • 'Artillery firing' on Korea border

    South Korea has returned fire after North Korea fired artillery shells onto a South Korean island and into the sea near the countries' disputed western border. A resident of Yeonpyeong island near the tense Yellow Sea border told YTN television by phone that some 50 shells landed and dozens of houses were damaged. Another island resident, Lee Jong-Sik,.. More

  • Gambia severs ties with Iran

    Gambia has severed its ties with Iran, ordering all the Iranians representing their government to leave the country within 48 hours. The west African nation’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that "all government of the Gambia projects and programs, which were implemented in cooperation with the government of the Republic of.. More

  • Hundreds die in Cambodia stampede

    At least 345 people have been killed in a stampede at a water festival on a small island in the Cambodian capital. The crush occurred on the island of Koh Pich following a traditional boat race along the Tonle Sap river on Monday evening. Speaking in a live television broadcast, Hun Sen, the prime minister, said the incident was one of the country's.. More

  • Ireland confirms EU bailout deal

    Eurozone finance ministers have backed a request from Ireland for an international bailout from the European Union and the IMF. In a statement, the ministers said the EU and the European Central Bank had agreed the assistance "to safeguard financial stability in the EU and euro area". The statement underlined that other non-euro EU nations,.. More

  • Congo leader faces war crimes trial

    Jean-Pierre Bemba, former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is set to go on trial for rapes and murders allegedly committed by his troops in the neighboring Central African Republic. The trial, which is expected to last for months, will begin at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday. Bemba is charged with three.. More

  • Chinese miners all rescued from flooded pit

    Rescuers pulled out alive all 29 coal miners trapped underground by a flood in southwestern China on Monday, in a rare piece of good news for a country with a terrible record for mine disasters. State television carried live pictures of the miners being brought out of the shaft on stretchers and put into ambulances after more than 24 hours in the pit.. More

  • Iraqi parliament holds new session

    Iraq's legislators have headed back to parliament for what was expected to be a lackluster session that will not address the key decisions on who will run the new government. Instead, Iraq's 325 members of parliament were expected only to discuss internal parliamentary bylaws and forming legislative committees during the session that began in the early.. More

  • N Korea 'shows new atomic plant'

    An American nuclear scientist says he has seen hundreds of centrifuges in a sophisticated new atomic facility in North Korea this month. Siegfried Hecker of Stanford University wrote in a report published on Saturday that he was taken during a recent trip to North Korea's main Yongbyon atomic complex to a facility with a small industrial-scale uranium-enrich.. More

  • Nato endorses Afghan 'exit strategy'

    Nato will start pulling troops out of Afghanistan next year and hand over responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014, the alliance has said after a two-day summit in Lisbon. Nato leaders endorsed the plan after meeting behind closed doors in the Portuguese city to discuss an exit strategy from Afghanistan on the final day of the summit on.. More

  • Iran tests air missile

    Iran has successfully test-fired an air missile, Iranian state media has reported. Pictures broadcast on Saturday showed the launch of the missile system called the S-200. Though it shares the same name as a Russian missile S-200, it is said to have the capabilities of a stronger Russian system known as the S-300, according to Press TV. The launch.. More

  • Madagascar forces storm rebel base

    An operation by security forces in Madagascar aimed at storming a base housing rebel soldiers has ended. Dissident soldiers who attempted a coup three days ago have been based at the barracks outside Antananarivo, the capital, and a solider who took part in the operation told Reuters news agency on Saturday that it ended. "The mutineers gave.. More