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UK police: 21 people sought treatment after ex-spy poisoning
Associated Press, Published on 09/03/2018
» LONDON: Around 21 people have received medical treatment after a nerve-agent attack on an ex-Russian spy, British police said Thursday, as the UK vowed strong action against whoever was responsible for the "brazen and reckless" act.
'Systematic slaughter': Rohingya mass graves confirmed
Associated Press, Published on 02/02/2018
» BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognised his friends only by the colours of their shorts.
North Korea 2017: Hope to hostility
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: In the first month of Donald Trump's presidency, an American scholar quietly met with North Korean officials and relayed a message: The new administration in Washington appreciated an extended halt in the North's nuclear and ballistic missile tests. It might just offer a ray of hope.
9,000-plus died in battle with Islamic State for Mosul
Associated Press, Published on 20/12/2017
» MOSUL, Iraq: The price Mosul's residents paid in blood to see their city freed was between 9,000 and 11,000 dead, a civilian casualty rate nearly 10 times higher than what has been previously reported. The number killed in the 9-month battle to liberate the city from the Islamic State marauders has not been acknowledged by the US-led coalition, the Iraqi government or the self-styled caliphate.
Trial in Kim murder visits lab to examine VX-tainted clothes
Associated Press, Published on 09/10/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian court holding the trial of two women accused of killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader moved temporarily Monday to a high-security laboratory to view the VX-tainted clothes the suspects wore the day of the attack.
Kim's murder trial to resume with lab visit for VX evidence
Associated Press, Published on 08/10/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR: The trial of two women accused of killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader enters its second week with the court moving temporarily Monday to a high-security laboratory to view evidence tainted with the toxic VX nerve agent.
Secret North Korean workers in China
Associated Press, Published on 05/10/2017
» HUNCHUN, China: The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government to process seafood that ends up in stores and homes in the US and other countries.
How many nuclear weapons does North Korea have?
Associated Press, Published on 18/08/2017
» WASHINGTON --The US intelligence agencies' assessments of the size of North Korea's nuclear arsenal have a wide gap between high and low estimates. Size matters and not knowing makes it harder for the United States to develop a policy for deterrence and defend itself and allies in the region.
China urges US, North Korea to 'hit the brakes' on threats
Associated Press, Published on 16/08/2017
» BEIJING -- China has urged the United States and North Korea to “hit the brakes” on threatening words and work toward a peaceful resolution of their tense standoff created by Pyongyang's recent missile tests and threats to fire them toward Guam.
China displeased by US ship's South China Sea passage
Associated Press, Published on 11/08/2017
» BEIJING -- China has expressed its "strong dissatisfaction" over the US Navy's latest freedom of navigation operation, in which a warship sailed past one of China's man-made islands in the strategic South China Sea.