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02.02.2010, 17:23
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Beijing has announced it may punish US aviation companies involved in the multibillion-dollar arms deal, while Taipei remains defiant in the face of criticism from the mainland.
16.06.2010, 10:40
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North Korea has warned that any rebuke from the UN over the alleged sinking of a South Korean navy ship in April could provoke a military response.
06.08.2010, 06:07
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Japan is remembering the 140,000 people who died after the first-ever use of an atomic bomb, dropped by the US on the city of Hiroshima in August 1945.
06.08.2009, 00:38
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America’s dropping of two nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 64 years ago contributed to Japan's non-nuclear weapons policy. But calls are growing in Japan to rethink the anti-nuclear stance.
25.05.2009, 18:59
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The North Korean nuclear test affects the balance of power in the region, says Pavel Leshakov, the head of the Centre for Korean Studies at Moscow State University.
23.07.2009, 23:43
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“One of the criteria for a just war is that you have to eliminate more evil than you bring in,” says ex-US Army sergeant Geoff Millard. “The war in Afghanistan has brought more evil into the world than it’s taken out.”
09.12.2009, 11:42
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Pakistan sees India’s growing economic and political profile in Afghanistan as a threat, which, it is feared, might lead to growing tensions between the two historic nuclear rivals and even countermeasures by Pakistan.
19.08.2010, 12:37
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Moscow never exports weapons to regions where they “may cause the destabilization of the situation,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
06.09.2009, 22:35
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There’s no military solution to the Afghan war, as the Soviet Union found out in the late 1980s. The conflict has to be ended through negotiation, University of Kent professor Richard Sakwa told RT.
31.05.2010, 16:57
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Russian investigators have arrived in Seoul to conduct an independent investigation into the events which led to the sinking of a South Korean warship in March this year.
Published: 27 March, 2009, 15:00
As North Korea is preparing to launch a missile amid criticism from its neighbours, the Russian Foreign Ministry is calling on all sides involved to refrain from raising tension.
