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One thing can be said with absolute certainty about the latest mission to Moscow being undertaken by reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il: it is right on track.
After midnight the lights went out in the Khabarovsk railroad station, and Russian guards with rifles stood on the ready.
Then, just before 2 a.m. the Moscow-bound train pulled in, carrying the mysterious Kim.
In an era when world leaders speed from one appointment to another by limousine and aircraft, Kim has chosen to travel ... |
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| Lima |
Promising to fight to improve the lot of the nation's poor and to root out corruption, Alejandro Toledo was sworn in Saturday, becoming Peru's first elected president of Indian descent and returning the country to democracy after 10 years of autocratic rule by Alberto Fujimori.
In the war against poverty, "I'll dedicate all my efforts," he said. "From this objective, no one will move me."
Toledo, 55, has his ... |
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| Hanoi |
HANOI, Vietnam -- Myanmar's foreign minister insists that landmark talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi are making progress and says Western sanctions would only push the country towards poverty, not democracy.
In an interview with Reuters in Hanoi, where he was attending a ministerial summit, Win Aung dismissed ... |
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| Sicily |
MOUNT ETNA, Sicily -- The authorities in eastern Sicily have been forced to close the main airport as emergency crews battle to halt lava flows from Mount Etna.
It was the second time in as many weeks that flights into and out of Fontanarossa airport have had to be cancelled or diverted because thick flakes of gray ash ... |
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| Lima |
Peru's President-elect Alejandro Toledo will be inaugurated , a year after enduring smear campaigns in a battle against the autocratic regime of ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
Toledo, an economist who overcame poverty to earn a ... |
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| John Christensen |
In coming to grips with AIDS, the worst health calamity since the Middle Ages and one likely to be the worst ever, consideration inevitably turns to the numbers.
According to estimates from UNAIDS, an umbrella group for five U.N. ... |
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| Sofia |
Bulgaria'sparliament has officially appointed former King, Simeon II, as the country's new prime minister.
In a 141 to 50 vote, the legislature chose the ex-monarch to lead the nation after his National Movement for Simeon II party's landslide election victory on June 17.
Simeon's government will mark the first time that ethnic Turks will be representatives in the Balkan state, where the minority group comprises some 10 percent of the population.
The position of deputy prime minister and economy minister is expected to go to 31-year-old Nikolai ... |
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| GENOA, Italy |
| World leaders called for calm as streets stood empty outside the site of the Group of Eight summit, in marked contrast to the violent demonstrations during the day that left one man dead from gunfire and more than 100 other people wounded. ... |
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