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A South Korean watches footage of the 2002 clash between the South and North Korean navies at a railway station in Seoul yesterday

North and South Korea clash on the high seas

US envoy to visit Pyongyang for rare one-on-one talks with reclusive communist regime

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Drought hits Germany's River Rhine in 2007

Britain rules out climate treaty at summit

Friday, 6 November 2009

Officials say major powers too far apart for legal deal in Copenhagen.

A sea of crosses for servicemen killed in Afghanistan outside Westminster Abbey yesterday at the official opening of the Royal British Legion's Field of Remembrance

Frustration mounts over Obama's fatal indecision

Friday, 6 November 2009

As Gordon Brown defends Britain's Afghan mission as US comes under pressure to decide on strategy

UN to pull its staff out of Afghanistan

Friday, 6 November 2009

Insurgent attacks see 600 workers evacuated – and they may never come back

Fifty UN peacekeepers punished for sex abuses

Thursday, 5 November 2009

At least 50 peacekeepers have received punishments ranging from reduction in military rank to eight months imprisonment for committing sexual abuses on United Nations missions since 2007, the UN said today.

Ban Ki-moon hit back at election cover-up claims in London yesterday

UN chief defends dismissal of official

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, has defended his sacking of a top UN official who accused the organisation of turning a blind eye to fraud in the Afghan elections.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured here at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, denies there was any meeting with Israelis

Sworn enemies across the disarmament table

Friday, 23 October 2009

Iran and Israel 'questioned each other' at nuclear conference

A poster for the Afghan President Hamid Karzai towers over pedestrians in Kabul yesterday

Afghan run-off may force US hand on troops

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Obama ponders reinforcements as Kabul authorities face struggle to ensure fair vote

William Hague and Hillary Clinton disagree over relations with Europe

Hague tells Clinton not to fear Tories' EU allies

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Links with far-right European parties 'a risk to good relations with US'

Iran's chief delegate, Ali Asghar Soltanieh: Draft on the right track

Tehran edges towards nuclear deal

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Atomic watchdog 'crossing fingers' that Iran will heed Friday deadline

US Senator John Kerry with Hamid Karzai

The accidental diplomat in Kabul

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Kerry told Karzai: 'There are times when country comes before self'

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