Euronews
| Mar 8, 2013
Tensions between the Koreas are at their highest for years after Pyongyang, enraged by new UN sanctions, said it was ripping up all nonaggression pacts with the South. Seoul responded with a warning that Kim Jong-Un's regime would be wiped off the...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 7, 2013
China joined other UN Security Council members in a unanimous vote in favor of tightening sanctions on North Korea to punish it for last month's nuclear test. The vote came after a series of increasingly shrill threats from Pyongyang, including a ...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 7, 2013
North Korea stepped up its anti-US rhetoric even further ahead of a UN vote on new sanctions, vowing to exercise its right to a "pre-emptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors." Pyongyang earlier threatened to rip up the 1...
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Mosaic
| Feb 19, 2013
With Western sanctions hitting the Iranian economy, the BBC looks into the effects on the pharmaceutical industry, as regular Iranians struggle to purchase the medicine they need to survive.
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MBC
| Feb 14, 2013
South Korean broadcaster MBC uses Google Earth, CGI, and information from intelligence services to recreate the location and impact of North Korea's recent nuclear weapons test. They quote a high-ranking government official as saying that further ...
LinkAsia
| Jan 24, 2013
On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed resolution 2087, tightening sanctions against North Korea. In response, North Korea vowed to boost its military capabilities, including nuclear deterrence. Footage from Reuters.
Voice of America
| Jan 9, 2013
Life in Iran is steadily getting more difficult as sanctions bite and EU nations under pressure from the US shun even permitted trade with the country. Iran is seeking to trade with other nations, but it says it is willing to return to talks on it...
Associated Press
| Dec 11, 2012
Japan mobilized its anti-missile defenses amid reports that North Korea made good on its plan to fire a long-range rocket, defying warnings from the United Nations and the US. This time, unlike the last time, the rocket apparently worked.
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Al Jazeera English
| Dec 9, 2012
North Korea may delay its latest attempt to launch a long-range rocket as Japan threatens to shoot it out of the sky. Officials from both Japan and South Korea say the "space satellite" launch is actually a ballistic missile test, in breach of int...
— Jun 25, 2012 at 04:02 pm
...imposed on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime, after the European Union and Australia imposed a new raft of measures on Monday. - M...
— Apr 27, 2011 at 12:10 am
...to the legitimate demands of his people with immediate and genuine reform, not with brutal repression,” said Foreign Secretary William Hague, ac...
— Feb 16, 2012 at 03:15 pm
...had made and must intensify sanctions against Tehran, the minister said, stressing however that Iran had not yet reached the point of no return....
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