SKorea lifts travel ban on top NKorea defector: official (AFP)
                   
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03-Sep-2008 7 related
        

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea has lifted an overseas travel ban on Hwang Jang-Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean defector ever to come here and a harsh critic of the Pyongyang regime, an official said Wednesday. Hwang, former secretary of the ruling Workers' Party and an ex-tutor of Kim Jong-Il, defected during a trip to Beijing in 1997. He remains under police guard at a secret address against any attempts by the... [read full story]                    

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Alexander Stoddart interview: 'I believe in the elite for all'

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Published Date: 22 November 2008 ALEXANDER STODDART welcomes me into his studio, and into the 19th century. Indeed, if one could visit the workshop of one of the great monumentalists of a century ago, it might look a lot like...

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Iran fails to halt U.N. assembly rights resolution

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Western nations claimed a success on Friday when a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran passed through a key committee more easily than in the past.

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