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SEOUL Feb 9, 2010 In a meeting with Chinese Communist Party international affairs chief Wang Jiarui, reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il pledged to remove nuclear weapons from the peninsula, reports Xinhua news agency.
North has been staying away from international talks for cutting down nuclear arms stocks. By reducing the military threat it poses to the region, It could get international aid to prop up its economy
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GAZA Feb 8, 2010 Hamas has failed to pay the January salaries of many of the 34,000 Palestinian civil servants and security men in the Gaza Strip.
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TEHRAN Feb 2, 2010 Iran blamed Israel today for the killing of a Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’ commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month.
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DAMASCUS Jan 29, 2010 Hamas said that Israel has killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander in Dubai, on Jan. 20.
Izzat al-Rishq, who is a member of Hamas’s politburo, did not give details. He said Mabhouh was an "important" member of Izz el-Deen al- Qassam brigades, which is Hamas’s military wing.
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SEOUL Jan 28, 2010 North Korea fired several artillery rounds on Thursday in the direction of a South Korean island off the peninsula, Yonhap news agency said. This is the second day of shooting near a disputed sea border.
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KABUL Jan 18, 2010 Taliban gunmen, some wearing suicide vests, did a commando-style attack on banks, a shopping mall and Afghan government ministries in Kabul
It came as some members of President Hamid Karzai’s new cabinet were being sworn in.
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BAGHDAD Jan 14, 2010 A court sentenced 11 Iraqis today to death by hanging for their role in the massive truck bombings in Baghdad last August. 95 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in the bombings.
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PESHAWAR Jan 14, 2010 A U.S. drone fired two missiles today at a hideout of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud. Pakistani officials did not confirm whether he was hit.
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TAIPEI Jan 14, 2010 Taiwan needs high-tech arms from the United States to give it strength in talks with political and military rival China, the island government said today. China and Taiwan must "respect each other", Liu Te-shun, vice chairman of the country's policy making body, added at a news conference.
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RIYADH/SANAA Jan 13, 2010 Saudi security forces have killed hundreds of Yemeni Shi’ite rebels who infiltrated into the country, a defence official said on Tuesday.yeme
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