
China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) will hold the sixth high-level strategic dialogue between their foreign ministries in Beijing next month, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman announced Thursday.
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The United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has offered Russia’s Interior Ministry closer cooperation abroad, its head said during a meeting with Russia’s interior minister on Wednesday.

A court in Georgia has ruled that former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili remain in custody for two months pending trial on charges of corruption and abuse of office, local media reported.
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Asian economic giant Japan on Thursday expressed its full support to the Philippines’ decision to bring its territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea before a United Nations arbitration tribunal as it underscored the need to adhere to international law to preserve regional peace and stability.
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The disturbances, which put a spell on the Middle East and North Africa, will be long term and painful most apparently, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at an international conference on security here on Thursday.
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The World Health Organization has praised Thailand for the world’s best governance for medicine, Thai News Agency reported.
May 22, 2013 | Posted in
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Myanmar from May 24 to 26 to boost bilateral economic ties, becoming the first prime minister to visit the Southeast Asian country in 36 years, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday.
May 22, 2013 | Posted in
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Former North Korean Armed Forces minister Kim Kyok-sik has been appointed as chief of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), a media report monitored in Seoul said Wednesday.
May 22, 2013 | Posted in
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Russia has been asked to increase the level of staff it commits to UN peacekeeping missions around the world, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said after meeting with the UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs in New York.

The Republic of Cyprus will continue to provide its ports for Russian ships, and it believes that such assistance is an important factor in ensuring security in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, Fotis Fotiou, the Defense Minister of Cyprus, told Itar-Tass on Tuesday in an interview ahead of his three-day visit to Russia. He is due to leave for Moscow on Wednesday, May 22.
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