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  • UNSC meeting ends on inconclusive note

    An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council over soaring tensions in the KoreanPeninsula ended inconclusive with the powerful 15-member group of the world body failing to arrive at a consensus. A draft resolution, circulated by the Russian Federation, after more than eight hours of debate, was sent back to the Capitals of the 15-members of the […]

    SKorea starts live-fire drill as UN bickers

    South Korea launched a live-fire military exercise on a border island on Monday, despite North Korean threats of deadly retaliation, as UN diplomacy on the regional crisis broke down. But in an apparent sign of compromise over its nuclear ambitions, CNN said North Korea had agreed with US troubleshooter Bill Richardson to permit the return of UN atomic […]

    DPRK Media Calls upon Nation to Oppose War, Guard Peace

    An official newspaper of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday called upon the whole nation to oppose war and guard peace in an effort to smash the warmongers’ plot of igniting the war. In a commentary on Monday, the Rodong Sinmun warned that the military confrontation and tension between the north and south […]

    S. Korean Military to Conduct Live-fire Drills Monday

    South Korea will conduct a live-fire drill Monday from a western border island shelled last month by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in Seoul said. Residents of Yeonpyeong Island were told to take shelter ahead of the imminent drill, which officials here said the live-fire drill was […]

    Largest U.S. Bank Suspends WikiLeaks Payments

    Largest U.S. bank holding company Bank of America Corp. (BoA) announcedon Saturday that it has stopped handling payments for website Wikileaks, which had released thousands of secret U.S. State Department cables. In a statement published on Saturday, the North Carolina-based bank said it would “not process transactions of any type that we have reason to […]

    BofA of US blocks WikiLeaks Transactions

    Bank Of America Corp is the latest U.S. company to ban transactions of  WikiLeaks The bank said in a statement ” This decision is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.” WikiLeaks urged followers to respond to […]

    Lukashenko Wins Belarusian Presidential Election

    Incumbent Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has won the Sunday presidential election, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC) citing preliminary results. CEC head Lidia Yermoshina told reporters that according to the so-called “closed” areas, Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory with the support of nearly 90 percent of voters. “Closed” areas were located in hospitals, nursing […]

    UN Security Council Meets on Rising Korean Tensions

    The UN Security Council on Sunday began an emergency meeting on the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The 15-nation Council started the meeting behind the closed doors at around 11 a.m. EST on Sunday. Diplomatic sources said that an open meeting is likely to follow the closed-door consultations. Earlier on Saturday, Russia called for […]

    Russia Insists UN Send Special Envoy for Talks on Korean Peninsula

    Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said on Sunday that his delegation still pursues the idea that the UN secretary-general immediately sends a special representative to Pyongyang and Seoul to calm down the mounting tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The Russian ambassador made the statement to reporters after a Security Council emergency meeting at the request […]

    Heavy snow hits air travel, roads across Europe

    Heavy snow and freezing temperatures continued to wreck havoc across Europe as thousands of air travellers were stranded at airports and motorists were stuck on highways in Germany and several other countries. At Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, several hundred passengers were forced to stay overnight, many of them for the second consecutive day, after […]