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Kim Jong Il died from a heart attack on December 17 last year at the age of 69

Lavrov: ‘No Signs of Instability in N. Korea’

21:53 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)

Moscow does not see any signs of instability in North Korea a month after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.

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Kim Jong-il dead
21:53 26/01/2012
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died at the age of 69 on December 17, 2011.
Diplomats Deny Russians Paid to Escape Concordia
20:38 26/01/2012
Russian passengers of the cruise ship Costa Concordia were not paying their way out of the sinking vessel, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said on Thursday.
Russia Accounts for 27% of Strasbourg Court Backlog
19:41 26/01/2012
Russia accounts for 26.6 percent of cases pending at the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR), a larger share than any other country, the international court’s president Nicolas Bratza said on Thursday.
Ex-Minister Denies Mubarak Ordered Protesters Killed
19:13 26/01/2012
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did not order troops to fire on protesters during nationwide riots in 2011, former Interior Minister Habiba el-Adly said, the news portal Ash-Shuruk reported on Thursday.
S. Sudan Army on High Alert over Oil Dispute
19:03 26/01/2012
South Sudan has put its army on high alert due to the ongoing conflict over oil transit charges with its northern neighbor, Sudan, local media reported.
Kazakh Official Wants own Church Fresco Image Repainted
18:04 26/01/2012
A regional official in Kazakhstan asked to paint over his image included in a fresco of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem adorning a local Orthodox Christian church, the Tengrinews.kz portal said on Thursday.
Reporters Without Borders Downgrade Russia Freedom Rating
17:19 26/01/2012
International media freedom monitor Reporters Without Borders has downgraded Russia in its annual Press Freedom Index, to 142nd from 140th place.
Moscow Freezes Transdnestr Support
16:23 26/01/2012
Russia is freezing indefinitely its $300-million support line for the breakaway Moldavian province of Transdnestr after a Kremlin candidate lost the vote in the region.
Syrians Rally in Support for al-Assad
16:22 26/01/2012
Mass demonstrations in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s reforms were held on Thursday in many Syrian cities, the state TV said.
Pre-Flight Safety Breaches found in Polish Armed Forces - Media
16:13 26/01/2012
The Polish Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has found numerous violations in the organization of flights for top officials in the Polish Armed Forces between 2005 and 2010, Gazeta Wyborcza reported on Thursday.
Prophet Mohammed's Hair to Arrive in Chechnya
15:31 26/01/2012
Muslims of Chechnya are joyfully preparing to greet a holy relic, a hair of the Prophet Mohammed, which will arrive on a flight from Turkey on Thursday afternoon, RIA Novosti reports.
U.S. Presidential Hopeful Promises Moon Base by 2020
13:54 26/01/2012
US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised to build a moon base by 2020 if he becomes the next U.S. President in November, the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives said in an address to a crowd of over 700 people on Florida’s “Space Coast” on Wednesday.2
German Court Bans Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Excerpts
11:41 26/01/2012
A Munich court has banned British publisher Peter McGee from printing excerpts from Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Germany because it breaches copyright laws, Focus magazine reported on Thursday.
U.S. Ambassador McFaul Hopes Reset with Russia Continues
07:54 26/01/2012
The new U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, told liberal Moscow-based Ekho Moskvy radio that he hopes the “reset” in the Moscow-Washington relations will continue.

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