Asylum seekers in Japan embassy
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A group of seven asylum seekers, believed to be North Korean, reach Japan's embassy in Beijing.
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Japan has issued tourist visas to Taiwan&#39;s former president, Lee Teng-hui, and his family, defying warnings from China which has demanded the decision be reversed.
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AMMAN - Japanâs Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa arrived in Jordan early Thursday to set up a task force to deal with the kidnapping of a Japanese in neighbouring Iraq, the embassy said.
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BEIJING : Forty-four North Korean men, women and children scaled the walls of the Canadian embassy in Beijing in a likely bid for political asylum, an embassy spokesman said.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- A top diplomat from Tokyo met with Jordanian and Iraqi officials in Amman on Thursday in the hope of obtaining the release of a Japanese hostage held in Iraq, hours before a deadline for his killing expires.
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Israeli police were called inside the British embassy in Tel Aviv after an armed man entered the compound seeking asylum, Israeli police and British officials have told AFP.
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TOKYO - Japan sought international help Wednesday to secure the release of a Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq and pledged to do its utmost to gain his freedom after refusing to bow to the kidnappers&#39; threat to behead him unless Japan withdraws its
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BEIJING (CP) - China said Thursday it wants the Canadian Embassy to hand over 44 people thought to be North Korean asylum-seekers who climbed over a spiked fence onto embassy grounds.
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Four people believed to have fled North  Korea arrived at a port in northern Japan in a small boat on  Saturday and later told police they want to go to South Korea,  Kyodo news agency reported.
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A group of suspected North Koreans has entered the Canadian Embassy in Beijing in an apparent bid to win political asylum. A Canadian embassy spokesman says some 45 people scaled the wall around the embassy compound Wednesday.
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In a move that will add to current concerns about North Korea&#39;s human rights record, 44 refugees from the impoverished country have sought refuge in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing.
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BEIJING -- Seven men and women, apparently North Korean defectors, sought refugee at a Japanese school early Friday morning. Japanese diplomats in Beijing said that they were two men, four women and a girl.
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Twenty-nine people, believed to be  North Koreans seeking asylum, broke into a Japanese school in  Beijing on Wednesday by climbing on stools and cutting through  the wire perimeter fence.
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Twenty-nine North Koreans sought asylum Wednesday at a Japanese school in Beijing, hoping to ultimately reach South Korea, the Kyodo news agency reported.
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Astana - Moscow, November 17 KAZINFORM - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is planning to discuss with his Japanese colleague Nobutaka Machimura relations between the two countries, including the peace treaty problem.
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States, which may pave the way for him to leave Japan after almost half a year in detention. He has been held in Japan since July when he was stopped with a passport that US officials said was invalid.
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KUWAIT CITY : Japan&#39;s Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa arrived in Kuwait to supervise arrangements for the repatriation of the body of Japanese tourist Shosei Koda who was beheaded by militants in Iraq.