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East Asia
Ban Ki-moon, John Kerry hold joint press conference at the State Department
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters during a joint news conference with Secretary of State John Kerry, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. Secretary of State John Kerry, accompanied by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaks to reporters during their joint news conference at…
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West Asia
Turkish PM welcomes his Georgian counterpart in Ankara
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) holds a welcoming ceremony for his Georgian counterpart Bidzina Ivanishvili in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 14, 2013. <Xinhua/Li Ming>
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East Asia
Festival of Kimjongilia, flower of former NK leader, opens in Pyongyang
Visitors attend the opening of the 17th Kimjongilia Festival on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition Hall, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia are flowers named after late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. North Korean soldiers pose for a photo at the…
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Central Asia
Turkmenistan’s President talks with his Ukrainian counterpart
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov (L) talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich during their meeting in Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan, Feb. 13, 2013. <Xinhua/Lu Jingli>
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NK’s Nuclear Test Sparks International Condemnation
The nuclear test conducted by North Korea on February 12 has been triggering extensive criticisms including one from its main ally China increasing international action against Pyongyang. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned North Korea’s nuclear test, saying it was a “clear and grave violation” of U.N. Security Council resolutions. The…
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East Asia
Why Nuclear Test Now?
*Editor’s note: North Korea’s third nuclear test must pose the first challenge for the Obama administration’s second term foreign policy. Not to mention the newly elected leadership of South Korea, China and Japan. Foreign policy expert Andrew Natsios, an executive professor at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and…
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Central Asia
Algerian President talks with Russian FM in Algiers
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) meets with Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov in Algiers, Algeria, Feb. 11, 2013. <Xinhua>
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Politics
Artist’s sketch shows court hearing against five defendants at Guantanamo Bay
In this pool photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, left, confers with his lawyer Army Capt. Jason Wright, second from left, as co-defendant Walid bin Attash, second from right, also attends the…
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West Asia
Assad meets with his supporters when rebels captured Syria’s largest dam
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center left, meets with a delegation of Jordanian political activists, lawyers, doctors and engineers in support of him, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. Syrian rebels captured the country’s largest dam on Monday after…
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West Asia
Egyptian FM, OIC secretary general speak in press conference after the OIC summit in Cairo
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr (L) and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu attend a press conference after the closing of the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Feb. 7, 2013. The two-day meeting closed…
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