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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, March 18 (Yonhap) -- A convoy of vehicles carrying South Korean diplomats

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By Hwang Doo-hyong
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, March 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has refused to accept

Astana, March 18, 2009 (Khabar) - The parliamentary group of the Nur Otan party has developed advices for improving the status of disabled people of Kazakhstan.

Pavlodar, March 18, 2009 (Khabar) - Over 1,5 000 residents of region will be re-trained this year. And the state will help them to find a job in conditions of economic crisis.

Riyadh, March 18, SPA -- Prince Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammad Al
Saud, Minister of Education, received here yesterday the visiting
Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura.

New York, March 18, IRNA

SEOUL, March 18 (Yonhap) -- A group of South Korean government officials visiting
Yemen were attacked presumably by a terrorist group but no one was hurt, Seoul's

By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, March 18 (Yonhap) -- Seoul will once again make an aspiring bid to become
one of the world's fashion capitals as it gets set to launch an international

Jayapura, Indonesia, March 18 (ANTARA) - Flash flood accompanied by huge landslide in Papua provincial city of Jayapura has killed at least four people, Jayapura police spokesman Adjunct Senior Com

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SEOUL, March 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's jobless rate jumped to a four-year high