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Despite efforts by the United Nations to impose isolating sanctions on North Korea in response to the country's continued development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, trade between Russia and North Korea soared more than 85 percent in the first four months of the year.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talking to Centrist Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanding action against Jews... Meanwhile another member of the war cabinet Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has ordered detention without trial for a second Jewish man... Israeli politics the war shaking up public opinion... In Louisville a mistrial declared at the civil rights trial of ex Louisville police officer Brett Hankison... In the Central American nation of Guatemala the Public Prosecutor's Office seeking to prosecute Leftist President-Elect... Israel attacking the Syrian capital Damascus early Friday morning... In France Senator Joel Guerriau arrested accused of drugging a...

2003-08-19 13:20 * RUSSIA * FAR-EAST * EMERGENCY * EXERCISE * STATE OF EMERGENCY IN RUSSIA'S FAR EAST VLADIVOSTOK, August 19, 2003 /RIA Novosti correspondent Anatoly Ilyukhov/ -- An emergency situation has been declared in four regions of Russia's Far East with the beginning of a command-and-staff exercise to drill clean-up operations. The areas concerned are Primorye, Khabarovsk territory, Sakhalin region and Kamchatka, the press centre of the Primorye administration told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The state of emergency only accompanies the exercise and does not restrict the constitutional rights of citizens, the local media, enterprises and cultural institutions. The...