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N. Korean Navy warns of naval clash in Yellow Sea By Lee Joon-seung SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Yonhap) -- The North Korean Navy warned Thursday that repeated violations of its water by South Korean warships is raising the possibility of a clash in the Yellow Sea. The announcement by the Navy Command carried by the (North) Korea Central news Agency, said it will deal firmly with any violations of its sovereignty.

8. While negotiations between the Georgian and Abkhaz sides remained stalemated, a combination of developments brought about a dangerous dynamic in the situation around Abkhazia, Georgia. One month after the decision of the Russian Federation to withdraw from the 1996 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) restrictions on Abkhazia, Georgia (see S/2008/219, para. 14), on 16 April the President of the Russian Federation issued an instruction authorizing direct relations with the Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto authorities in a number of fields. The Russian Federation stated that the decision was aimed at supporting Russian citizens and the local population and...

April 21, 2008 Russian jet 'shoots down' Georgian spy plane Georgia today accused Russia of an “unprovoked act of aggression” after a Russian jet allegedly shot down an unmanned Georgian reconnaissance plane, Alexi Mostrous writes. Officials in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, released video footage which they said showed a MiG-29 fighter launching a missile at the Georgian plane as it flew over the country’s breakaway Abkhazia region. The allegation - dismissed as “nonsense” by Moscow - is likely to aggravate tensions between the countries, which are locked in a standoff over Georgia’s ambitions to join NATO and Moscow's support for Abkhaz...

USFK's top commander says Kim Jong-il should beware joint marine force SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Yonhap) -- The top commander of U.S. troops here has issued tough warnings that if North Korea attacks South Korea, its leader will have sleepless nights worrying that U.S. and South Korean marines might show up in his bedroom. "(North Korean leader) Kim Jong-il should have trouble sleeping at night wondering if he attacks the South, will American Marines and the ROK Marines -- the Ghost Catchers -- show up in his bedroom," U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. B.B. Bell said in a speech at an...

By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer Sun May 28, 7:26 AM ET KRAKOW, Poland - Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was punched and sprayed with what appeared to be pepper spray by an unidentified man in downtown Warsaw, but escaped without injuries from what police said may have been an anti-Semitic attack.

MIAMI -- British music producer Adam Kidron says he just wanted to honor the millions of immigrants seeking a better life in the U.S. when he came up with the idea of a Spanish-language version of the national anthem. The initial version of Nuestro Himno, or Our Anthem comes out Friday and features artists such as Wyclef Jean, hip-hop star Pitbull and Puerto Rican singers Carlos Ponce and Olga Tanon. Some Internet bloggers and others are infuriated by the thought of The Star-Spangled Banner sung in a language other than English, and the version of the song has already been...

WARSAW, August 1 (RIA Novosti, Leonid Sviridov) - A group of Polish nationals beat the children of Russian diplomats here Sunday night. Three Russian teenagers and a Kazakh schoolboy were returning from a movie when the assailants attacked them in a park. According to witnesses, the attackers included about 15 people, aged 19-25. They shouted anti-Russian slogans and obscenities. According to witnesses, the assaulters seemed to be an organized group of skinheads in jogging suits. The victims retreated to a bus stop, where the beatings continued. The group stole mobile phones, money and tore chains from the teenagers' necks. During...

MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin called the attack on children of Russian diplomats in Warsaw a crime and ordered his staff to contact their Polish colleagues on the issue Monday. Three children of Russian diplomats, aged 15-16, were severely beaten and robbed in Warsaw Sunday. Putin ordered his staff to find what Polish authorities are doing to investigate the crime. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday that it had summoned the Polish ambassador, while the Russian Embassy in Warsaw sent a note of protest to the Polish Foreign Ministry. The children suffered various injuries and...

/begin my translationU.S. Had 170 Recon Flights over N. Korea in June KCNA, Pyongyang (via Yonhap News) 2005/06/30N. Korean news agency KCNA claimed on June 30 that the number of U.S. reconnaissance flights over N. Korea in June amounts to 170. Quoting military sources, KCNA denounced, "Although many threads of dialogues between the North and the South(Korea) are in progress, with exchange and cooperation picking up, American imperialists are viciously redoubling reconnaissance flights against our republic(note:N. Korea.)  It continues, claiming, "Various kind of tactical and strategic reconnaissance aircrafts which took off from American airbase in S. Korea or outside were involved in surveillance activities. They...

A police informant initiated much right-wing incitement in recent weeks, according to Maariv newspaper. Similar police tactics were used in the mid-1990's against protestors of the Oslo Accords. Much of the "right-wing incitement" of recent weeks, attributed by the media to the national camp, was initiated by none other than an undercover police informant. So reports Maariv today, in an article featured in a front-page headline. The paper states that the police agent has initiated some of the more extreme protest acts of recent weeks - acts that were widely attributed to the entire national camp. The activities thus cast...

Details now emerging. In Japanese..... North Korean MiG locked on to Japan EP-3 surveillance craft over Sea of Japan in March 2003, during joint work over international waters between Japan and North Korea, with US Navy. US Navy RC135-S "Cobra Ball" surveillance aircraft was also locked on for shootdown by DPRK Airforce in international airspace.Japan Air Self Defense forces scrambled (several) F-15s from Komaki Air Base in Western Japan to challenge the DPRK MiGs, which backed down and released their radar "Lock On". Later and soon after, the DPRK enemy aircraft harrassed US Navy Aircraft for nearly 20 minutes,...

<p>Readers of this forum may recall an ugly and disgusting incident that occured in Baghdad, Iraq early on the day of the city's liberation.</p> <p>A rabid Western 'human shield' was captured on video insulting the liberation force of US Marines as they entered the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, shoving propaganda in people's faces, as well impeding official Coalition military activity when the US forces stood guard outside in front of the Palestine Hotel, near the square where the large statue of Saddam was toppled.</p> <p>"Whining "Human Shield" in Front of Palestine Hotel Captured on Video by Lebanon TV (LOL!)"</p>

YOMIURI SHIMBUN WEBNEWS (from the original Japanese version/"Freepranslation" by "AmericanInTokyo"). Top story (13 March 2003 Japan Time):--It has been revealed that increasing indications are that the North Koreans are going to lauch a No-Dong missile toward the Sea of Japan, as a test of the rocket's capabilities and in further escalation of the situation on the Korean Peninsula.--This information is confirmed through various sources of the Japanese government to Yomiuri News. The information aligns with satellite intelligence by the US, collected recently, which shows apparant North Korean intents, and the information was passed on to the Japanese government.--The Japanese AEGIS...

This is just developing as of 11:20 p.m. tonight, Eastern Time, February 20th. (It is already February 21 in Asia). This developing story apparantly is not on any major English outlets yet.Fuji Television Network in Japan (FNN) reports with a headline that it has been revealed that yesterday's dangerous and provocative incursion by a North Korean MIG-19 figher jet into South Korean airspace across the DMZ and over the Yellow Sea, occurred at the approximate same time as another, separate incursion by some (did not specify how many) North Korean Korean People's Army ground troops, also into South Korea across...