Briton Opens First Foreign Law Practice in N.Korea
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North Korea took a further tentative step  on its economic reform path last month when it allowed the  country's first law firm to open on a Pyongyang square named  after the communist state's founder, Kim Il-sung.
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The UN court in The Hague says two British lawyers will represent former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.
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One of the customers of Britain's first offshore off-licence has goods seized by customs officials.
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Secretive North Korea signed deals  with resource-rich Mongolia on Friday, local media said, in the  first visit by a high-ranking North Korean official to Ulan  Bator since 1988.
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New Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday hailed a &quot;historic&quot; new era which is opening in Northern Ireland, as he made his first trip to Belfast since taking office.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown began a major effort Friday to position Britain as China's premier international business partner, offering London as a base for distribution of the Asian nation's state fund for private investment.
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SEOUL, Sept. 13, 2004âNorth Korea has agreed to allow a British diplomat visit the site of a massive explosion that sparked fears the reclusive country had conducted a nuclear test.
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A wealthy Chinese mother who gave birth to her second child in Northern Ireland to obtain EU residence rights won her legal battle yesterday to get round China's "one-child" laws and bring up her daughter in ...
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South Korea's President Roh Moo-Hyun received a royal welcome in Britain, kicking off a three-nation European tour aimed at improving trade relations and political cooperation.
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A former Afghan warlord stood trial in London accused of a series of murders, kidnappings and acts of torture, in the first case of its kind in Britain.
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LONDON  - Britain appointed its first black High Court judge on Thursday and she predicted she would be "the first of many."
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The creation of the first international law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic will be announced on Monday, in a move expected to trigger more
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An Egyptian firm says it has won the right to provide a mobile phone service in communist North Korea, a country which has strictly restricted such services to the general public.
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An Afghan commander accused of  conspiring to torture people and hold hostages has become the  first person to stand trial in Britain for human rights abuses  committed abroad.
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On the heels of plans by the New York Philharmonic to perform in North Korea comes word that the 120-member North Korea State Symphony Orchestra is to play two concerts in England. The Guardian of London reported that after three years of planning and organizing, that orchestra will perform in September at the Royal Festival Hall in London and in Middlesbrough in northeast England. The visit was described as the âbrainchildâ of the opera singer Suzannah Clarke, who, in 2003, became the first British singer to perform in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The newspaper said that she had suggested that her hosts invite other foreign musicians to North Korea and send its orchestra abroad. Ms. Clarke comes from Middlesbrough.
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In a small softening of relations between North Korea and the west, it was announced yesterday that Bill Rammell of the Foreign Office is to become the first British minister to visit the communist state.
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Kim Jong-il's eldest son is reported to have returned to N Korea in a move that could affect the succession issue.