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North Korea fired its fifth short-range missile in three days. South Korea's Defense Ministry said a missile had been fired on Monday morning.
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*Washington says not looking to send envoy to Pyongyang. His sentencing comes after two months of saber-rattling that saw North Korea threaten the United States and South Korea with nuclear war. Pyongyang has previously tried to use American prisoners as bargaining chips in talks with Washington.
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SEOUL, May 2- North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labour on Thursday for what it said were crimes against the state, a move that will likely see him used as a bargaining chip in talks with Washington.
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LONDON, April 30- UK authorities are investigating whether Kazakh miner ENRC breached Britain's rules for listed companies, specifically with acquisitions made in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a 2012 sale in Kazakhstan, it said in its annual report released on Tuesday.
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LONDON, April 30- UK authorities are investigating whether Kazakh miner ENRC breached Britain's rules for listed companies, specifically with acquisitions made in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a 2012 sale in Kazakhstan, it said in its annual report released on Tuesday.
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DANDONG, China, May 1- China has stepped up checks on shipments to and from North Korea almost two months after agreeing to new U.N. sanctions that demand greater scrutiny of trade, but the flow of goods in and out of the reclusive state appears largely unaffected.
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DANDONG, China, May 1- China has stepped up checks on shipments to and from North Korea almost two months after agreeing to new U.N. sanctions that demand greater scrutiny of trade, but the flow of goods in and out of the reclusive state appears largely unaffected.
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SEOUL, April 30- South Korea's central bank held interest rates steady in a 4-3 vote with Governor Kim Choong- soo casting the final vote to keep rates unchanged while three board members called for a cut, minutes released on Tuesday showed.
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WASHINGTON, April 29- The United States called on North Korea on Monday to immediately release on humanitarian grounds a U.S. citizen accused of trying to topple the reclusive state's government.
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By Kim Do-gyun and Lim Sang- gyu. PAJU, South Korea, April 29- North Korea held back seven of 50 remaining South Koreans at the suspended jointly run factory zone north of the heavily armed border on Monday, citing last-minute checks on taxes and wages.
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SEOUL, April 26- South Korea will pull out all remaining workers from a jointly run industrial zone in North Korea, it said on Friday, after Pyongyang rejected a call for formal talks to end a standoff that led to operations being suspended.
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SEOUL, April 26- Kim Kyong- hui has battled alcoholism and the killing of her lover to stand alongside her nephew, North Korea's youthful leader Kim Jong-un, as a reminder that he is the true heir of the dynasty's blood-line.
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SEOUL, April 25- South Korea proposed formal talks on Thursday with North Korea to discuss restarting a joint factory zone located just north of the rivals' heavily armed border that was suspended in early April, sharply deepening security tensions on the peninsula.
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WASHINGTON/ CAMBRIDGE- U.S. intelligence was alerted when one of the Boston bombing suspects traveled to a volatile region of Russia last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, raising new questions about the government's handling of the case and how well law enforcement agencies share information and cooperate with one another.
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SEOUL, April 25- South Korea proposed formal talks on Thursday with North Korea to discuss restarting a joint factory zone located just north of the rivals' heavily armed border that was suspended in early April, sharply deepening security tensions on the peninsula.
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SEOUL, April 25- South Korea proposed formal talks on Thursday with North Korea to discuss restarting a joint factory zone located just north of the rivals' heavily armed border that was suspended in early April, sharply deepening security tensions on the peninsula.
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LONDON, April 25- Emerging stocks hit a near two-week high on Thursday, boosted by gains in shares in India, Russia and South Korea. Hungary's forint hit a three-week low following this week's rate cut. Russian, Indian, South Korean and Turkish shares all rose by more than 0.5 percent, though China.
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HONG KONG, April 25- Hong Kong's banking regulator said on Thursday it was doubling the size of its anti-money laundering team to strengthen supervision amid intensifying scrutiny of monitoring and compliance systems at global financial institutions.
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SEOUL, April 25- South Korea's economy grew a seasonally adjusted 0.9 percent in the January-March period from the previous quarter, the central bank estimated on Thursday, the fastest in two years and far above market expectations.
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SEOUL, April 25- South Korea's economy grew a seasonally adjusted 0.9 percent in the January-March period from the previous quarter, the central bank estimated on Thursday, the fastest in two years and far above market expectations.
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*Data due at 8 a.m., April 25 ( 2300 GMT, April 24. SEOUL, April 24- South Korea's economic growth probably ticked up in the first quarter but fell short of achieving a firm recovery at a time of heightened risks from a falling yen and North Korea's war threats, a Reuters poll shows.