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No ‘immediate’ risk as N. Korea restarts nuclear plant, says US
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NEW YORK: North Korea is taking a tough line toward the six-country
nuclear disarmament talks but it has “no immediate potential” to
restart its nuclear reactor, the top US negotiator said Monday.
Diplomat Christopher Hill echoed President
George W. Bush’s concerns about North Korean moves to reactivate
the plutonium-producing reactor at Yongbyon but he dismissed any
suggestion that the negotiations were unraveling.
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Japan’s new prime minister on offensive for elections
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TOKYO: Japan’s premier-designate Taro Aso vowed Tuesday to take
action to revive the economy and lashed out at the opposition as
irresponsible, going on the offensive ahead of high-risk general
elections.
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Stamping out corruption can save lives – watchdog
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BERLIN: Stopping bent practices such as cronyism and embezzlement
can save lives in poor countries, a graft watchdog said Tuesday as
Somalia, Iraq and Myanmar again came bottom in its global corruption
rankings.
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Malaysia’s opposition begins handover talks with government
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s opposition said Tuesday it had begun
negotiations with the ruling coalition over a transition of power,
after it claimed to have signed up enough defectors to topple the
government.
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DUBAI: A shadowy group calling itself the “Fedayeen of Islam”
claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of Islamabad’s
Marriott Hotel in a telephone call to Al-Arabiya television, the
channel said on Monday.
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