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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Monday it will release a South Korean fishing boat and crew members held there for alleged trespass into its exclusive economic zone. South Korea's Red Cross was notified earlier in the...

A number of Chinese analysts have dismissed statements by a high-level Japanese politician questioning the sovereignty of China's Diaoyu Islands as election campaign posturing. On Sunday, just ahead of the Sept 14 leadership elections for t...

A powerful bomb blast rocked Kunduz city in north Afghanistan, injuring several persons on Saturday, police said....

Business in Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), seems as usual, but a closer look shows that people are calmly expecting the coming Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). Pyongyang citi...

The latest round of Middle East peace talks kicked off Thursday, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing optimism that the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians may be resolved in a year. Israeli Prime Minist...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out an attack by Israel against his country over its nuclear activities, saying that the Jewish country is "decaying." "The Zionist entity is on its way to decay. It is in a very difficult situati...

The Nicaraguan Civil Defense authorities said on Sunday that at least 42 people have died in the last days in the country due to the pouring rains. In Nicaragua a total of 2,196 have gone to shelters, 1,371 of them in Managua, Nicaragua's c...

One woman was killed and 38 people injured on Sunday as a small plane crashed in a flight show near the city of Nuremberg, south Germany. A pilot lost control of his small propeller-driven biplane during takeoff and crashed into a group of...

The victims of the Colombian conflict not only suffer from the direct consequences of violence caused by the on-going conflict but also suffer from social and institutional stigma and neglect in Colombia. The triple victimization impacts th...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he is willing to reach an historic compromise with the Palestinians, "so long as it maintains the national interests of the State of Israel with security first and foremost." Israel's Pr...