N Korean leader's lover 'dead'
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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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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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A Japanese hostage taken in Iraq has been  killed, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday, citing information  obtained by the Japanese government.
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North Korea&#39;s official media have dropped the honorific ``dear leader&#39;&#39; from reports on Kim Jong Il, a Japanese news agency reported a day after other reports said his portrait had been removed at some public sites.
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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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The girlfriend of an aid worker feared to have been executed by Iraqi militants who claimed he killed one of their men as he broke through a roadblock today said she was âdisturbedâ by mixed reports of his fate.
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A former Khmer Rouge commander who masterminded the abduction and murder of three Western backpackers in 1994, has died, his wife said on Saturday.
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A government minister, now in Pyongyang, said he will seek an explanation from his North Korean hosts of a reported blast in the north of the country three days ago.
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Benazir Bhutto's widowed husband accused members of Pakistan's ruling regime of involvement in his wife's killing and called Saturday for a U.N. investigation
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An alleged top operative of al-Qaida in Lebanon arrested 10 days ago died of a heart attack on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
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Afghanistanâs Foreign Ministry insisted that one of the hostages had died of a heart attack and the other was still alive.
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TOKYO : Japan is enraged at North Korea for allegedly lying about the deaths of two of its citziens the Stalinist state kidnapped, with commentators warning the deception has set back the chances of reconcilation with the outside world.
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Japanese officials meet the alleged husband of a woman kidnapped by Pyongyang, as talks are extended.
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A Japanese government delegation on a visit to North Korea met Friday with a man supposed to be abductee Megumi Yokota&#39;s husband and a doctor at a hospital where Pyongyang claimed she committed suicide, according to the top government spokesman.
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The wife of Kim Jong-il, North Korea&#39;s dictator, has died after a long battle with cancer, according to unconfirmed reports yesterday.
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A South Korean man who had worked for the U.S. military has defected to North Korea, the North's official news agency claimed Wednesday.
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A Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq earlier this week has been killed by his abductors after the Japanese government refused to meet their demands to withdraw its troops from the region, Kyodo News agency reported early Saturday.