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North Korea has started restricting border crossings with the South, military officials say.
01/12/2008
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An Indian warship sank a Thai trawler in the Gulf of Aden last week after wrongly assuming it to be a Somali pirate "mother ship", an international maritime agency has said.
26/11/2008
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North Korea has said it will halt border crossings across the frontier with South Korea, accusing the government in Seoul of seeking confrontation and warning North-South ties stand on the brink of "total severance".
12/11/2008
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Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister, has conceded defeat in the country's election after John Key, leader of the National Party, won enough seats to lead a conservative coalition.
08/11/2008
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North Korean state media has released a fresh batch of photographs of the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, but gave no details on when or where they were taken.
05/11/2008
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North Korea's state news agency has reported that Kim Jong-il, the country's leader, has appeared at a football match, depsite widespread reports that he suffered a suspected stroke in August.
02/11/2008
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North Korea's military has warned rival South Korea to end what it says is a policy of confrontation, threatening to turn the South into "debris" if it continues.
28/10/2008
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Three men convicted of carrying out the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will be executed in early November, a spokesman for Indonesia's attorney general has said.
24/10/2008
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North Korea has ordered its diplomats overseas to get ready for an "important announcement" that may be related to the health of its leader Kim Jong-il, according to a Japanese newspaper.
18/10/2008
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A suicide car bomb is reported to have exploded outside a base of the Nato-led military force in Afghanistan's western city of Herat, wounding several troops.
18/10/2008
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