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An agency of the Chinese government launched a satellite mapping service, designed to compete with the popular satellite mapping service Google Earth, which may represent new problems for Google’s operations in mainland China. Google and China are at odds since last year, when a serious attack of hackers originating in the Asian country took [...]

A fleet of warships from the United States and South Korea began today in the Sea of Japan, military maneuvers in the face of North Korea. U.S. military denied that the maneuvers are a provocation, but admitted that they are intended to send a strong message to the communist regime and are a response to the sinking of a warship South Korea in March [...]

Brazil is the only country that ran in the 19 editions of the World Cup. It scooped five titles and is the biggest winner. In recent decades always figured among the favorites. And on Tuesday, in its debut edition of South Africa, flirted with the largest “zebra” in its history. Everything was decided in the second half after a goalless draw in [...]

Brazil has got rid of the ghost of the absences on the eve of a World Cup. It passed without much trouble by the extensive preparation phase began on May 21. This scenario is not repeated since 1990, when the absence of players was frequent. It is true that there were two scares, but both of small proportion. The stage was so good at the medical team [...]

The highly paranoid and reclusive communist regime of North Korea today issued a statement marking the beginning of the year 2010 and has stated its wish to put an end to the “hostile relationship” with the Unites States of America. This latest statement from Pyongyang is being viewed as a negotiation tactic towards the highly fluctuating six part [...]

A human rights activist, is believed to be detained in the authoritarian state of North Korea, as per the colleagues of the individual. Robert Park, 28, managed to make his way into North Korea from China by slipping frozen Tumen River and was on a mission to shed more light on the worsening human rights in the country. The activist made his way into [...]

A significant way in how the whole world turns actually rests in the hands of US President Barack Obama and his administration. Tempering the nuclearization of global weaponry, harnessing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions posthaste and on a global scale, truly changing the fate of Afghans, assuring stability in the potentially combustible [...]

The extremely isolated and hard line communist state of North Korea has after a long time revalued its national currency in a bid to save the crumbling economy of the nation that has led to a extreme high rate of inflation ans mass public misery. The revaluation efforts are also aimed at putting a stop to the thriving black market that has seen immense [...]

In an October 1 meeting, Western governments ‘proposed that Iran agree to ship up to 80 percent of its LEU to Russia in return for eventual shipments of 20 percent enriched uranium to fuel a small medical reactor in Tehran.’ At an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) negotiations in Vienna last month, outgoing IAEA Director General ElBaradei [...]

North Korea in a statement has announced that, this time it will employ all necessary steps and will retaliate mercilessly in order to secure and protect the Yellow Sea border it shares with South Korea. Pyongyang has also stated that South Korea will be given proper retribution for the naval clash that took place last week between the two countries. In [...]