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Iran can defeat 'barbaric' sanctions, vows Khamenei

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

Iran can overcome problems caused by "barbaric" economic sanctions that Western states have imposed over its nuclear programme, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Kha...

Cuba, US still at odds 50 years after missile crisis

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

Fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Havana remains virulently hostile to the United States, which reciprocates by maintaining a crippling economic embar...

S. Korean army under probe for failed border watch

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

A South Korean army division faces embarrassing questions after a North Korean soldier travelled unchecked across one of the world's most fortified borders and ...

Russia says wants end to US arms disposal plan

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

Russia said Wednesday it had notified the United States it no longer wanted to extend a two-decade-old US-funded arms disposal initiative that has helped Moscow...

N. Korea should stop 'bragging' about missiles: US

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

Impoverished North Korea should stop bragging about its missile capability and instead ensure it feeds its own people, a top US official said Tuesday. Reacting ...

Iran denies new offer made to Europe

Oct 09, 2012 (UPI)

Iran never made a reported proposal to Europe in a bid to end its nuclear standoff with the West, the country's chief negotiator says. Saeed Jalili, Iran's top ...

Three N. Korean soldiers defect since August: reports

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

Three North Korean soldiers have defected to South Korea across the heavily-fortified border since August, media reports said Tuesday, in an apparent embarrassm...

Any US military action against Iran far off, says Romney

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

White House hopeful Mitt Romney said Tuesday that any US military intervention to stop Iran's nuclear program was still on the distant horizon, tempering his rh...

Outside View: Cuban missile crisis

Oct 09, 2012 (UPI)

Lost within recollections of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis -- a confrontation that took the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nu...

Cuba crisis pitted Kennedy against Khrushchev, Castro

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

The Cuban missile crisis unfolded like a life-and-death poker game pitting a young American president, John F. Kennedy, against the veteran Soviet leader Nikita...

North Korea says missiles can strike continental US

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

North Korea said Tuesday it possessed rockets capable of striking the US mainland, as it slammed a new US-South Korean deal to extend the range of the South's m...

Nukes must be eradicated, US ignoring the issue: Gorbachev

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev called for the eradication of nuclear weapons and pointed a finger of blame at the United States for doing too little,...

Iran could make the bomb within 10 months: experts

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to make an atomic bomb within two to four months and then would need an additional eight to 10 months to build t...

South Korea questioning Northern defector

Oct 08, 2012 (UPI)

South Korea's military is questioning a North Korean soldier who said he defected to the South after killing two of his superior platoon officers. The unnamed s...

Only threat to regime will budge 'mad' Tehran: Britain

Oct 07, 2012 (AFP)

The world should tighten the squeeze on Iran over its "mad" nuclear plans to the point where the regime's survival is threatened by its own people, Britain's de...

N. Korean shoots officers, defects: South military

Oct 06, 2012 (AFP)

A North Korean soldier defected to the South on Saturday through the heavily militarised border, apparently shooting dead two superior officers in the process, ...

India business group visits Iran for 'win-win' trade

Oct 06, 2012 (AFP)

An Indian business group said Saturday a delegation was visiting Iran to boost trade with the Islamic republic, which is under strain from Western sanctions ove...

S. Korea poses no threat to North: president

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

President Lee Myung-Bak on Thursday said South Korea posed no security threat to North Korea even as he urged parliament to get behind reforms aimed at modernis...

Israeli foreign minister predicts 'Persian Spring'

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday he believes "the Arab Spring will be followed by a Persian Spring," with international sanctions agains...

Israel's Peres wishes for Iran president to 'disappear'

Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli President Shimon Peres expressed hope on Wednesday that his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would vanish during the coming year, along with othe...