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BBC News
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Several thousand foreigners have fled South Africa after days of violent attacks by angry mobs.
Mozambique is laying on special buses, which have taken some 9,000 people home this week, an official said.
Some Zimbabweans are also going home, preferr..
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BBC News
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South African security ministers have been discussing using the army to help stop a wave of attacks on foreigners, which has left at least 23 people dead.
The deployment of troops, which has been demanded by human rights groups and the opposition, coul..
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USA Today
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The South Korean president signed a commitment with North Korea Thursday to seek a formal end to the Korean War, ending a historic three-day summit during which he was snubbed by his host and upstaged by a nuclear agreement 600 miles away in Beijing.
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USA Today
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An unsmiling North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il offered a stiff greeting to South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun in the northern capital Pyongyang Tuesday, an awkward start to their historic meeting and a sharp contrast to the warm atmosphere at the first N..
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BBC News
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A group of South Koreans held hostage by Taleban militants in Afghanistan have said they were beaten and ordered at gunpoint to convert to Islam.
At a news conference in Seoul, the former captives also said they were made to work "like slaves" during t..
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CNN
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A Taliban commander who masterminded the July kidnapping of South Korean aid workers was among 16 militants killed by U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan soldiers, according to a police official. The coalition press center said the military operation was..
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SF Gate
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The Taliban freed the seven remaining South Koreans they were holding hostage in central Afghanistan on Thursday evening, Afghan officials announced. All of the hostages appeared to be in good condition.
The release of the last hostages ended a six-wee..
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USA Today
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Taliban militants were expected to release seven remaining South Korean hostages Thursday, bringing to an end a six-week drama that saw two captives executed by the kidnappers, a South Korean official said.
South Korean presidential spokesman Cheon Ho-..
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CNN
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Taliban militants released eight South Korean hostages in Afghanistan after more than a month of captivity. Earlier on Wednesday three women, identified as Ahn Hye-jin, 31, Lee Jung-ran, 33, and 34-year-old Han Ji-young, were handed over to representative..
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CNN
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South Korean negotiators in Afghanistan have reached a deal with Taliban militants holding 19 South Korean Christian aid workers for over a month, a presidential spokesman in Seoul said Tuesday. Seoul welcomes the deal, but the spokesman cautioned that ma..
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FOX News
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South Korean and Afghan officials searched for a meeting place Thursday after agreeing to hold face-to-face talks with the Taliban to seek the release of the remaining 21 South Korean captives, a chief negotiator said.
A delegation of eight South Korea..
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BBC News
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Fighting has erupted in the area where a group of South Korean hostages are being held by the Taleban, suggesting an operation has begun to free them.
Local officials told the BBC there had been fighting between government and Taleban forces in Ghazni..
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CNN
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The body of a second South Korean hostage killed was found Tuesday in the Chahor Devor area of Ghazni province in central Afghanistan, according to an Afghan Interior Ministry official. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, in a telephone interview with CN..
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CNN
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Taliban leaders said on Sunday their fighters would kill 22 remaining South Korean hostages if the Afghan government did not release rebel prisoners by a new deadline of 0730 GMT on Monday, a spokesman said. Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said the..
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BBC News
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Taleban rebels threatening to kill a group of 23 South Korean hostages in Afghanistan say they have extended the deadline for their demands to be met.
The rebels have given officials until 1900 local time (1430 GMT) to trade Taleban prisoners for the h..
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Reuters
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President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a frontline combat role, the White House said on Wednesday.
The United States has had thousands of U.S. troops..
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USA Today
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press that a Seoul offer to help resolve a banking impasse blocking North Korea's nuclear disarmament went unheeded by Washington and Pyongyang.
Roh, whose term expir..
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BBC News
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North Korea has test-fired several missiles towards the Sea of Japan.
South Korea's defence ministry said the launches appeared to be part of a routine military exercise.
Japanese and South Korean news agencies say the test-firing involved short-ran..
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BBC News
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Twelve workers, 11 of them foreign, have been kidnapped from a construction site in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, a South Korean firm has said.
At least five other foreign workers have also been abducted in the south from an Italian-run oil vessel an..
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BBC News
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Lawyers in Sudan's Darfur region are investigating reports of slavery during the conflict, the BBC has learned.
"There are many cases of abductions," a Sudanese lawyer told the BBC.
They are too afraid of possible reprisals from either militias or s..
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