N. Korean leader&#39;s mistress reported dead
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SEOUL, South Korea -- A mistress of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il - whose son with him is considered a possible successor - has died of an illness, according to media reports.
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Alexander V. Litvinenko, who fell gravely ill early this month, apparently after being poisoned, died Thursday night after suffering a heart attack, the authorities said.
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South Korean officials said Thursday they were investigating reports that the woman considered to be North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's most influential wife has died after a long battle with breast cancer.
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A 69-year-old woman who disappeared along with her Alzheimer's-stricken husband nearly three months ago died of a gunshot wound, according to preliminary autopsy results.
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A spokesman for the Afghan Taleban says the group has killed one of 23 South Korean hostages it is holding.
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North Korean media have dropped most laudatory references to leader Kim Jong-il, just days after reports that his portrait had been removed from some public places, an analyst at Radiopress, a Japanese news agency that monitors North Korean media, said on Wednesday.
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SEOUL  The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling Uri Party, Shin Ki Nam, resigned Thursday after it was disclosed that his father was a collaborator with Japanese colonial authorities during Japan&#39;s 1910-1945 rule of the Korean Peninsula.
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Security forces killed a Taliban commander involved in the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in an overnight operation that left 15 other rebels dead, the Afghan government said Tuesday.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has taken  his former secretary as his new wife, South Korea's Yonhap news  agency reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the  country.
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&quot;DON&#39;T have a reaction, I&#39;ll leave it to the analysts,&quot; responded US State Department official Adam Ereli to questions about the significance of reports that North Korea&#39;s media had stopped calling Kim Jong-il &quot;Dear Leader&quot;.
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SEOUL North Koreaâs foreign ministry Monday confirmed an explosion in the Stalinist country last week was connected with a power plant project, Chinaâs Xinhua news agency reported from Pyongyang.
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South Korean officials are trying to confirm reports that the most influential woman in North Korea has died. Ko Young Hee, is sometimes referred to as the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
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_ British media outlet Sky News TV quotes an unidentified British government source as saying that Kenneth Bigley is dead. Earlier, Abu Dhabi TV reported that &quot;informed sources
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Japan&#39;s government on Sunday said it is now certain that a 24-year-old Japanese backpacker taken hostage in Iraq has been killed.
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The favourite consort of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is rumoured to have died, according to media reports.
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The Philippine military is verifying reports that Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group leader Khadaffy Janjalani was killed in an aerial assault in the southern Philippines, a local television reported Monday.
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South Korea&#39;s latest assessment of a widely reported explosion in North Korea last week is that there was no blast at all at the suspected site, a vice minister said on Friday.