S.Korea surveillance plane crashes in southwest

SEOUL: A South Korean surveillance plane has crashed in the southwest of the country, the defence ministry in Seoul said on Friday.

A ministry official denied an earlier report by South Korea’s YTN cable TV network said that it had been a U.S. plane that crashed. “It’s ours,” the official said. “We’re on a search and rescue operation.” AGENCIES

SKorea warns NKorea after artillery barrage

SEOUL: South Korea denounced a barrage of artillery fired by North Korea into the sea as a grave provocation Tuesday and warned that it would deal sternly with any further such acts.

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NKorea seizes SKorean fishing boat amid tension

SEOUL, South Korea: North Korean authorities seized a South Korean fishing boat Sunday in waters off the divided peninsula’s eastern coast, the South’s coast guard said amid heightened tensions over the sinking of a southern navy ship.

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Former Taliban minister arrested in Afghanistan

KABUL: Afghan officials have claimed arrest of six Taliban commanders, including former Taliban minister Mullah Abdul Hai Motmahen, during an operation in Ghazni province in south Afghanistan.

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12 killed in Karachi shootings

KARACHI: The fresh wave of targeted killings that began Friday night in Karachi, claimed 12 more lives in separate incidents of firing in various parts of the city.

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US aircraft carrier ups pressure on NKorea

SEOUL: A massive nuclear-powered U.

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100s at Broadway theater to help child actress

NEW YORK: The cast and crew of The Lion King is trying to save the life of one of its own.

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NKorea threatens nuclear response to war games

SEOUL: North Korea Saturday threatened to respond with nuclear weapons to a major US-South Korean naval exercise starting this weekend, saying it was ready for a retaliatory sacred war.

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Dismissed Gen McChrystal gets hero’s send-off

WASHINGTON: The former top U.

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NKorea declares "sacred war" on US, South

SEOUL: North Korea said on Saturday it would begin a sacred war against the United States and South Korea at any time necessary based on its nuclear deterrent, in response to reckless military exercises by the allies.

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