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Only days before the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea began, North Korea issued a stern warning not to criticize its nuclear program, saying through its state media that any inclusion of it in a statement would be a "declaration of war."

South Korea has claimed on Sunday that North Korea has moved a long-range rocket to its northwestern site in preparation for a launch next month.

Indicative of a growing closeness, India and South Korea Sunday aimed to double their annual trade to $40 billion by 2015, boosted military ties and eased visa norms to promote more business contacts.

US president Barack Obama is in South Korea on an official visit to talk about nuclear terrorism and how the world's nuclear material should be made more secure.

Investigators in France have said a suggestion by gunman Mohamed Merah that he was linked to al-Qaeda may have been false.

The African Union has said it will deploy 5,000 troops to hunt down Joseph Kony.

Brazil, Russia, India and China have become powerful engines of global economic growth over the past decade. The economist who first named these diverse emerging economies the "BRIC" nations, says their growth will continue, and may spread to some other emerging economies.

India has shared information about the Iranians being involved in an attack on an Israel diplomat in New Delhi.

AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping (l) and the acting Peace and Security Council Chairman, Nigerian Ambassador B. Paul Lolo brief reporters at African Union HQ, March 23, 2012

Tsewang Rigzin of Tibetan Youth Congress and hunger strikers, Mar 22, 2012.