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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 22:49 AM
WASHINGTON (AFP) - China, long consideredas protector of North Korea, increasingly unsure of its own influence and willsupport the unification of the peninsula if the regime collapsed, said the leakU.S. documents on Monday.In an expansive banquet last year, ambassadorof China to Kazakhstan reveals that Beijing considers the programnuclear North Korea as "very troublesome," according to a memopembocor obtained by the site Wikileaks.Ambassador Cheng Gouping "said China hopespeaceful reunification in the long term, but China hopes the two countrieswill remain separate in the short term, "said the leaked telegram by the AmbassadorRichard Hoagland and the U.S. large print repeated by the British newspaper TheGuardian.In another telegram is reproduced in The New York Times,a Chinese official who removed his name said that Beijing believesNorth Korea had "gone too far" after a trialboth nuclear and fired a missile.The official told a U.S. diplomat"That Chinese officials have expressed displeasure to Chinacolleagues and has been pressing North Korea (North Korea) to return to the tablenegotiations, "he said."Unfortunately," Chinese officials said suchquoted, "the protests had no effect.""'The only country that can make progresswith North Korea is the United States, '"said China's pajabatquoted as saying.Wikileaks has made infuriated the U.S. government againstmassive spread of sensitive data. Memos to the public afterNorth Korean border rained gunfire on an island in South Korea,killed four people and increase tensions.Impasse arises when the leader of North Korea's reclusive KimJong-Il, who suffered a stroke, preparing to hand over power to sonyoungest male lesser-known Kim Jong-Un, which is believed to still old20s years.Dai Bingguo, China's state counselor, is quoted in a telegramwhen told U.S. officials after a visit to Pyongyangthat Kim Jong-Il has lost weight but "appeared quite healthyand still have a 'sharp mind'. "Kim said he still drank alcohol, saying thatjust a matter of scheduling to stop North Korean leader fromparticipation by the guests in one of the legendary drinking sessions,according to the telegram.Many U.S. experts believe that China wants to maintainstatus quo for North Korea, worried that if the collapse would trigger a flood of refugeesand bring a united Korea and U.S. allies to the border.But a senior official of South Korea Chun Yung-Woo toldin a telegram saying that Chinese officials are more"Advanced" has come to believe that North Korea "lessvaluable to China as a buffer state "since the nuclear testfirst in 2006.Chun also said that South Koreans believe that KoreaNorth "has collapsed economically" and will "collapse inpolitical "two to three years after Kim's death.Chun, who was deputy foreign minister and nowa national security adviser, said that China "is very lessinfluence on North Korea than that of the believer. ""Beijing's 'no desire' to useeconomic influence to force a change in policiesPyongyang and the leader of (North Korea) know about it, "he said.However, another telegram quoted a Chinese official who"With strong ignore any suggestion that the system will collapsewhen Kim Jong-Il to go. "Unnamed officials were "warned that theU.S. experts do not think North Korea will explode after Kim Jong-Ildied, "he said.
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Thursday, December 2, 2010 03:30 AM
Kabul (AFP) - Gunmen kidnapped 16 tamer mines in Afghanistan, on Wednesday, but freed nine of them several hours later and took the rest to an unknown location, police said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, which occurred in the restive region Muhmand Dara on the border with Pakistan. However, criminal groups and guerrilla kidnapped dozens of foreigners and Afghanistan since US-led invasion in 2001 toppled the Taliban regime in Kabul.
"Gunmen attacked and kidnapped 16 tamer mine this morning but freed nine of them several hours later," said General Aminullah Amarkhail, border police chief for Nangarhar province, told AFP.
Amarkhail say, one person was arrested for alleged involvement in the kidnapping.
The tamer mines were worked for the Organization and Rehabilitation Mine Cleanup Afghanistan (Omar) who is based in Afghanistan.
Nine Afghan private security guards for a construction company was kidnapped in Kabul province on Monday, said the interior ministry.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010 07:36 AM WASHINGTON (AFP) - U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that U.S. support of South Korea's "unshakeable". Obama argued that in meeting key officials in security, defense and intelligence regarding the North Korean crisis.
Obama had a meeting at the White House that, after returning from a trip to Indiana.U.S. President had received information about the conflict that preceded Pyongyang's artillery attack against a South Korean island.
"The president reaffirmed the unwavering U.S. support on our ally, the Republic of Korea, and have discussed ways to promote peace and security on the Korean peninsula in the future," said a White House statement.
Obama is then scheduled to be called South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak to discuss the crisis.
The meeting included National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, their representatives and officials of foreign policy in Asia.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Admiral Michael Mullen, chief of the joint chiefs, and his deputy, Gen. James Cartwright, also took part in the meeting.
U.S. Ambassador to UN Susan Rice joined the conversation via video.Daftar participants meeting together with a list of officials who are often called upon by President Barack Obama to discuss the development of Afghanistan.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 09:37 AMThousands of people fled their homes Venezuela, Tuesday, after landslides and overflowing water from several rivers have killed at least 21 people and threatening to cause damage again.
Bad weather makes the closing of the two largest oil refineries in the OPEC member states on Monday (29/11). A source at state oil company PDVSA said they are slowly begin operating again Tuesday.
Millions of poor people in Venezuela live in a shack that was built without planning in the slums on the hillsides in Caracas and along the Caribbean coast. Heavy rains remind the public about the landslide which caused major damage in 1999 that killed at least 10,000 people.
Small landslide toppled dozens of homes, and cars pile up and block the road this weekend. Most of the 21 people are killed by landslides, while others washed away river.
The government has declared a state of emergency in three states and Caracas, as well as cancel a lesson at school and opened hundreds of shelter from the storm.
"The rain will continue for at least three days ahead," said Vice President Elias Jaua told state television station.
Formed long lines in poor areas of Caracas, when the official family record which will be placed in temporary shelters, including hotels, government offices and even the presidential palace.
Vice President Elias Jaua said 5600 people were forced to flee their homes due to heavy rain.
Most areas of the oil-producing states, Falcon, was flooded, resulting in a little oil spill near and Amuay Cardon refinery, which has a combined capacity of 955,000 barrels per day.
The main unit in Amuay, which can produce 645,000 barrels per day began operating again on Tuesday, a source at the oil refinery complex. Cardon will require 10 days to operate normally again after a power outage in the service industry, said Monday.
The source, who refused to be named because he was not authorized to speak, said the shipment of two oil refineries were not affected.Andean Development Corporation, a regional development bank, said the bank was passed 100 million U.S. dollars aid to Venezuela to help the country cope with the disaster.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 10:44 AM Stockholm (AFP) - WikiLeaks, an international organization headquartered in Sweden, in a message on Twitter network, said web pages that deal with new attacks after a similar incident at the weekend, just before the networks began to broadcast a secret diplomatic information the United States.
"We now face another DDoS attack," WikiLeaks said in its official account on Twitter.
DDoS stands for Distributed denial of service. Classic DDoS attack occurs when the legions of computer "zombies", which usually is a device infected with a virus, was ordered to visit a network simultaneously.
Massive attack like that can cripple servers, slow service or fully make it out of the network.
One message that was broadcast recently on a Twitter account, WikiLeaks, stating, "DDoS attacks are now exceeding 10 gigabits per second."
Jon Karlung, leader of web hosting company in Sweden, Bahnhof - which became part of WikiLeaks web host, including documents about the role of Iraq, confirmed the attack, but not the initial target server in Stockholm.
"We do not have cable logs (leakage diplomatic) primer, we do not accept it. But we can see there is an attack, we could not see how big, but we can see their server is very slow," he said.
Karlung said WikiLeaks mainly do web hosting on Amazon's network, the U.S. company, which has a server in Seattle.
"One American company into WikiLeaks web hosts, and it was very unusual," said Karlung.
Karlung add WikiLeaks recent weeks have been using a server based in France.
There has been no answer from Amazon about confirmation requests AFP that the company provides services for WikiLeaks server.
Amazon is the main provider of web hosting services in the World, which rents space on a server computer to customers worldwide.
WikiLeaks reportedly do web hosting on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Internet platform called EC2.
On Sunday, when WikiLeaks started broadcasting electronic messages as much as 250,000 U.S. embassy, the Twitter page that states that these networks have faced a DDoS cyber attack.
WikiLeaks however insisted that the newspaper El Pais, Le Moden, Der Spiegel, The Guardian and the New York Times will resume publication of the first such document, even if networking WikiLeaks jam.
WikiLeaks later able to outsmart the attack by creating sub-networks http://cablegate.wikileaks.org-- because its main network - http: / / wikileaks.org-- could not be accessed after the attack.
Until Tuesday, 18:00 GMT Wednesday (1:00 pm), both address "online" is still operating.
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Friday, November 26, 2010 11:32 pm
North Korea on Friday through its official media warned that the plan of the United States naval training and the South Korean peninsula would bring it closer to the war.
North Korean communist regime on Tuesday, firing cannons and rockets into the South Korean island Yeongpyeong that killed four people.
Pyongyang claimed that the shots that were a reply after South Korea held military exercises.
United States aircraft carrier USS George Washington on Friday toward the Korean peninsula where the U.S. and South Korea plans to hold naval exercises during four days in the Yellow Sea began Sunday.
Washington said the war games had been designed before the attack happened on Tuesday.
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in his article commenting on the plan Friday that war game with the phrase "war-imperialist forces like the U.S. and Korean puppets" and the exercise was intended to "incite a war."
"The situation on the Korean Peninsula inched closer to the brink of war because the plan elements reckless drivers who likes to war with the targets of the DPRK," the media.
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READ MORE - U.S. warns North Korea and South Korea "at the Threshold of War"
Sunday, November 28, 2010 22:06 AMJerusalem (AFP) - Palestinian Fighters in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, but caused no casualties or damage, the Israeli army said.
The rocket exploded in the air as to the Shaar HaNegev, which lies along the northeastern border of Gaza, said the spokesman.
According to the count of the army, the Palestinians since the beginning of this year has been fired more than 190 rockets or mortars into Israel from Hamas-controlled coastal strip.
Violence has recently occurred after several months of generally calm after the war in Gaza, when Hamas took steps to control the armed groups are smaller and harder, which is believed to be behind rocket attacks.
Hamas strongly opposes the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which began back in Washington in September after stagnating for almost two years.
The second round of talks scheduled to take place on Tuesday in Egypt.
By the end of 2008, Israel waged a large 22-day war over the Gaza Strip to halt rocket attacks against its territory.
Turmoil that has killed 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.
Israeli Air Force bombed more than 40 tunnel, which connects the isolated Gaza Strip with Egypt's Sinai desert during the onslaught began.
Cross-border tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons into the Gaza Strip, which cut off by Israel since Hamas master excommunicated in 2007.
Operation "Cast Lead" Israel, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including hundreds of residents and destroying a large number of areas on the coastal path, stated aims mengahiri firing rockets from Gaza.
Thirteen Israelis were killed in the war.
Stalled Middle East peace efforts since the crisis and the Gaza Strip remained isolated Israel.
Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal areas, isolated Israel and Egypt after Hamas took power.
Group Hamas controls the Gaza Strip in June 2007 after defeating Fatah forces, loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a deadly battle a few days.
Since then, the poor are excluded Israel. Palestine had become two separate unitary areas, namely the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, and the West Bank, which is under Abbas's government.
European Union, Israel and the United States incorporate Hamas into the list of terrorist organizations.
Poor region has a population of 1.5 million is largely dependent on a network of tunnels on the border since Israel and Egypt sealed Gaza off from all quarters in 2006, except for essential assistance, after militants captured an Israeli soldier.
Israeli soldiers on Sunday shot and wounded four Palestinians as they look for building materials near the Gaza border with Israel, medical sources said.
Teenage boy 15 years, including a shot in the northern town of Beit Hanun area, said emergency services spokesman Gaza.
Israeli soldiers opened fire ensures a number of people, "who approached the border fence" after ignoring warning shots.
Gazans are constantly threatened with injury or killed by a search of gravel in the ruins of abandoned buildings along the border, although close to 300 yards particular territory Israel 300.
Israel declared the territory should not be encroached upon it is necessary to prevent Palestinian bombers gunner and reach, and might violate, the border fence. (*)
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010 06:42 AM | Abroad | Middle East / Africa | Read 1173 timesBanjul (Reuters) - Gambia, on Monday announced the country was cut off all economic relations, political and diplomatic with Iran and gave 48 hours to the personnel of the Iranian government to leave the country.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Gambia did not give reasons for those actions.However, his neighbor, Nigeria, early November said that all documents for illegal arms shipments from Iran who intercepted his secret service in Lagos seems to show the weapons are directed to the Gambia to be re-exported.
"All government programs and projects in Gambia, which will be implemented in cooperation with the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been canceled," according to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Gambia. (*)
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Monday, November 29, 2010, 05:50 GMT
YEONPYEONG - China proposes emergency talks on the settlement of the crisis on the Korean Peninsula on Sunday (28/11). This happened after a number of global pressure on China to take a more active role in both the Korean conflict, as well as control the North Korean allies.
In a statement, China assess the condition of the two Koreas are in the situation "alarming". The country will soon be scheduled talks in December, with China, the United States, Japan, and Russia as a mediator.
However, China did not officially say whether North Korea will join or not join in the dialogue.
Previously, some countries had argued the Chinese are too indulgent of North Korea.Even some speculation, assume China will disturb the atmosphere in the Yellow Sea to defend North Korea.
Tensions between South Korea and North Korea continue to rise. Saturday (27/11) for example, Commander of the Sea of South Korea promised to get even "thousand-fold" on all North Korean attack.
Meanwhile, North Korea admitted it regretted any civilian casualties during attacks dilakukam. However, this communist country believes South Korea is to blame.
According to North Korea, South Korea deliberately using its citizens as a shield. Not only that, North Korea also assess the United States should be blamed as the "mastermind" of this.
Source: Republika
Monday, November 29, 2010, 05:46 GMT
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi civilian was killed after U.S. troops opened fire on his car on Sunday (28/11). He was shot blindly when trying to approach a military convoy near Baghdad airport, a few yards from a U.S. military base in the country.
According to U.S. military representatives in Baghdad, his party had recently tried to stop a civilian vehicle was. But the vehicle kept moving with high speed and close to the convoy.
"The driver failed to slow the vehicle and turned on the lights to the convoy," said the U.S. military. "As a result, the vehicle was considered a threat. The convoy was forced to stop and protect the convoy from possible attack."
Meanwhile, according to the local Interior Ministry victims are civilians. He worked as an engineer at the Baghdad airport.
Although the period has ended its operations in Iraq, U.S. forces often seen patrolling in some areas in Iraq. They are on duty to advise and train Iraqi forces.
Source: Republika
