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SEOUL ~ US and UN nuclear monitors left North Korea on Thursday after the communist state ordered them out and... Read More →

PATTAYA ~ The lobster had been grilled to perfection, the lights were low and the music tinkled softly in the... Read More →

BASRA ~ British forces officially started to withdraw from Iraq this week, signalling the end of six years of military... Read More →

WASHINGTON ~ China’s “sophisticated and multi-layered” efforts to censor and control the internet earned it a “not free” rating by... Read More →

JERUSALEM ~ Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu alluded to an eventual nuclear-armed Iran on Tuesday as the biggest threat to... Read More →

THE HAGUE ~ The new US administration of Barack Obama has discreetly abandoned the expression “war on terror” adopted by... Read More →

WASHINGTON ~ North Korea’s expected rocket launch is set to confront US President Barack Obama with his first major foreign... Read More →

WASHINGTON ~ A UN panel has urged the release of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, saying the junta violated not... Read More →

LONDON ~ Almost 2,400 people were executed last year, including more than 1,700 in China alone, but the world moved... Read More →

WASHINGTON ~ President Barack Obama’s administration has dropped outright US hostility toward the world’s first permanent war crimes court, but... Read More →