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South Korea says air strikes will follow any further attacks

The South Korean defence minister-designate has threatened a retaliatory strike if North Korea should attack the country again.

Kim Kwan-Jin, speaking in the South Korean parliament, said the military would strike back to punish the attacker...

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Global economy unlikely to improve significantly next year – UN

A United Nations report unveiled today paints a gloomy picture of the performance of the global economy next year, with growth projected to be a meagre 3.1 per cent, followed by 3.5 per cent in 2012 – rates that are insufficient to spur the recovery...

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Developing countries to benefit from new UN website on climate change funding

30 November 2010 – With developing countries slated to require as much as $100 billion a year for adaptation to climate change and $175 million for mitigation by 2030, the United Nations today launched a website to help them make sense of the multiple...

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Cablegate: Lessons on tech for transparency

Cablegate is everywhere. You can read about it in virtually any digital or print newspaper around the world; you can see it through the links shared on social media sites; you can follow the tag #cablegate on Twitter; you can browse dozens of blogs;...

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