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AFP – SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future despite the upcoming talks with Washington, a former senior US diplomat who recently visited Pyongyang said Monday.

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N.Korea unlikely to give up nuclear weapons: US expert

AFP – NAIROBI (AFP) – Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of financing the 1994 Rwandan genocide and is one of the most wanted men in Africa, is currently in Kenya, a senior US official said here Monday.

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Top Rwanda genocide fugitive in Kenya: US envoy

AFP – SHANGHAI (AFP) – US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and expanded political freedoms, seeking to get around China’s media curbs with a webcast town hall event in booming Shanghai.

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Obama presses Internet freedoms in China

AFP – CHICAGO (AFP) – A near-empty Illinois prison is among the US locations being considered to house transferred Guantanamo detainees, officials announced Sunday.

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Illinois prison mulled for Guantanamo detainees

AFP – BANGKOK (AFP) – Former US president Jimmy Carter launched a campaign Monday in which thousands of volunteers will build homes for the poor in five nations along the Mekong River, a humanitarian group said.

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Former US president Carter builds homes in Asia

AFP – TOKYO (AFP) – Japan and the United States will hold talks here on Tuesday to seek ways to solve a sticking row over the relocation of a US military base on the island of Okinawa, the foreign ministry said.

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Japan, US to seek solution to Okinawa base row: ministry

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Obama administration is increasing pressure on Pakistan to fight Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants as part of a revised US strategy for the Afghanistan war, The New York Times reported Monday.

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New US Afghan plan ups pressure on Pakistan: report