N.Korea gulag play draws standing ovation
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A wrenching musical play about North  Korea's prison camps drew a standing ovation from a  high-powered Washington audience -- a reaction activists said  hoped would focus attention on human rights even as the world  grapples with Pyongyang's threat of a nuclear test.
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Human rights campaigners have reacted with delight to news that Chile&#39;s former military dictator General Augusto Pinochet could finally stand trial.
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Relatives and friends screamed in delight at the homecoming of an accused Israeli-Arab spy whose release from an Egyptian prison could signal a thaw in Israel-Egypt relations.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan received an unusual standing ovation in the 191-nation General Assembly on Wednesday following calls for his resignation from conservative U.S. lawmakers.
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North Korea yesterday signalled that it may decide to lift the veil on some of its human rights violations after being challenged to allow the inspection of one of the country&#39;s notorious prison
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Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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The New York Philharmonicâs concert in North Korea, to take place on Feb. 26 at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, will be broadcast live internationally. The broadcast will be produced by the New York Philharmonic and EuroArts Music International, in co-production with the Munhwa Broadcasting Company of South Korea and ARTE France, and in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union. Details of the broadcast in the United States are to be announced later. The concert, to be conducted by Lorin Maazel, above, the orchestraâs music director, will include the national anthems of North Korea and the United States; the Prelude to Act III of Wagnerâs âLohengrinâ; Dvorakâs Symphony No. 9, âFrom the New Worldâ; and Gershwinâs âAmerican in Paris.â The concert, and the Philharmonicâs visit, have aroused controversy, with some contending that they offer legitimacy to North Koreaâs government.
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In a rare nod to religion,  communist North Korea has welcomed 500 Buddhist monks and  followers from the South to a temple dating from the 11th  century when Kaesong was capital of a unified peninsula.
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U.N. nuclear watchdog officials said on Friday they were "satisfied" with a tour of a North Korean reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to scrap under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency said.
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Overwhelmed after winning his first world title, North Korean weightlifter Cha Kum-choi stunned reporters at a news conference when he burst into a song of praise for his country&#39;s reclusive leader Kim Jong-il.
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MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin yesterday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who faces criticism over corruption in the agency&#39;s defunct oil-for-food program, enjoyed a standing ovation Wednesday from General Assembly members.
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There is no stopping the Rok Sako To Rok Lo makers.
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A concert by the New York Philharmonic  in North Korea next week that officials say could break  cultural boundaries and draw the two countries closer will be  broadcast throughout the reclusive Communist state.
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Thousands of people danced and brought flowers in North Korea's capital Friday to celebrate the 65th birthday of "dear leader" Kim Jong Il, amid progress in ending its nuclear programs and speculation abroad over who will eventually succeed him.
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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of demonstrators waving banners and flags gathered in Red Square in a show of unity against terrorism as the country mourned the hundreds of victims of a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia.    More than 100,000 people were expected to take part in the evening rally in the capital, organized by a pro-government trade union and advertised on state-controlled television by celebrities who appealed to citizens to turn out to say no to terror...
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The protesters coming to New York are receiving an outpouring of hospitality from scores of people who are opening their homes as temporary, free shelter.