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So far, foreign reporters in Pyongyang see sights, but not main show
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Behind closed doors, North Korea opens ruling party congress
North Korea on Friday opened the first full congress of its ruling party since 1980
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U.S. Tells Pakistan It Will Have To Fund F-16s Itself
“Given congressional objections, we have told the Pakistanis that they should put forward national funds for that purpose.”
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Obama won’t apologize for Hiroshima during trip to Japan
President Obama may visit Hiroshima when he travels to Japan late this month for a summit of key industrialized nations, but he will not apologize for the World War II decision to destroy that city with an atomic bomb, the White House said Monday.
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South Korea: Suspected midrange North Korean missiles fail
North Korea attempted unsuccessfully to launch two suspected powerful intermediate-range missiles on Thursday, South Korean defense officials said, bringing the number of apparent failures in recent weeks to three.
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China won't allow chaos or war on Korean peninsula: Xi
China will not allow chaos and war to break out on the Korean peninsula, which would be to no one's advantage
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Philippine president vows to stop new Marcos rule
Philippines President Benigno Aquino on Monday said he would do his best to prevent the family of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos f-rom returning to power.
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‘People should be terrified fracking is spreading’ – Australian MP who set river on fire to RT
Fracking should be banned as a “global threat” as it causes methane leaks contaminating water in the communities near gas wells, says an Australian MP who literally set a river ablaze to draw attention to the adverse effects of the practice.
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Obama Dismisses NKorea Proposal on Halting Nuke Tests
day after North Korea's foreign minister told The Associated Press that his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea, President Barack Obama said Sunday that Washington isn't taking the proposal seriously and Pyongyang would "have to do better than that."
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North Korea fires submarine-launched missile: South Korea
North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Saturday off its east coast, South Korea said, amid concerns that the isolated state might conduct a nuclear test or a missile launch ahead of a ruling party meeting in May.
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Indian father allegedly cuts off the hands of teen accused of raping his infant daughter
Some fathers will do anything for their children, but one in the Bathing district of India allegedly took the idea of “outlaw justice” to its grotesque extreme.
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China Goes After Russian Oil Giant Rosneft, Deals Fly
Anyday now we will hear that all that metal China is mining isn’t really designed for job creation and dumping steel into the world, it’s for building oil storage tanks.
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Afghanistan violence: Deadly bomb and gun attack hits Kabul
At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police and officials say.
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Japan Hit By 2 Deadly Earthquakes In As Many Days
Damage was widespread, and there were reports of people being trapped in collapsed buildings.
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New Zealand motorcyclist slides across intersection, narrowly misses being run over
CCTV footage has captured the frightening moment a motorcyclist comes within inches of losing his life.
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