SKorean ministry says it backs planned probe into frontrunner
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South Korea's justice ministry said Monday it would accept a plan for an independent inquiry into new claims opposition presidential election frontrunner Lee Myung-Bak was linked to a fraud case.
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Scotland Yard strengthened its team aiding the probe into the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Wednesday as concerns for the country's nuclear security grew.
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Top international nuclear regulator  Mohamed ElBaradei won a pledge from South Korea on Monday to  cooperate with the U.N. watchdog in the run-up to a report that  Seoul hopes will lift suspicions of clandestine atomic  activities.
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South Korea's incoming conservative government agreed Wednesday not to scrap the ministry handling reconciliation with North Korea, following fierce opposition from liberals who have a majority in parliament.
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BEIJING - Sweden&#39;s ambassador to North Korea said Friday that diplomats who visited what North Korean officials claimed was the source of a huge explosion saw no evidence to support fears it might have been caused by a nuclear blast.
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UK News, LONDON - The former lover of British interior minister David Blunkett wants to testify before an inquiry into allegations he fast-tracked a visa application for her Filipina nanny, a London newspaper reported Sunday.
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LONDON  -- The government said on Friday it was considering a request for cooperation from United States investigators who are probing alleged corruption at BAE Systems, including in its dealings with Saudi Arabia. The Home Office denied a report in the Guardian saying ministers were refusing to cooperate with the U.S. probe, launched in June, into the defense firm's compliance with anti-corruption laws. Washington sent the Home Office a formal request for legal assistance with its inquiry into BAE more than two months ago, the Guardian said. The Guardian said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had refused to pass on the request to the Serious Fraud Office for processing, a step needed for SFO investigators to speak to U.S. authorities.
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South Korea is seeking independent verification on the nature of a huge blast in North Korea last week, which its communist neighbor has said was linked to a hydroelectric scheme, Seoul's defense minister said on Tuesday.
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Taiwan's parliament approved on Tuesday a bill to set up an independent body to investigate the mysterious election-eve assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian, but his cabinet decided to veto the bill.
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SEOUL: South Korea said Friday it was satisfied with a UN atomic energy agency report which showed that unauthorised nuclear experiments by government scientists went further than previously thought.
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Defence Ministry spokesman Salih Sarhan said: âThe investigation is under way and we are still collecting information. The investigation is mainly to know whether there was any information leakage.
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A police investigation which found no evidence of UK collusion with the CIA is backed by the government.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell and South Korea's defense minister Yoon Kwang-Ung endorsed plans to pump more money into beefing up South Korea's defense capability despite a planned cut in US forces there.
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The Security Council was to hold a fourth straw poll on the next UN leader which will determine whether the front-runner, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, seen here in September 2006, has the backing ...Comment
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SEOUL, South Korea -- The United Nations nuclear watchdog will send a group of inspectors to South Korea this week to help it complete a report in November on Seoul&#39;s secret past nuclear experiments, a South Korean official said Sunday.
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South Korea is seeking independent  verification on the nature of a huge blast in North Korea last  week, which its communist neighbor has said was linked to a  hydroelectric scheme, government officials said on Tuesday.
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South Korean government officials are struggling to confirm persistent reports from North Korea of the recent death of its leader Kim Jong Il&#39;s favorite mistress, a former