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No communiqué expected from G7 finance ministers' UK meeting: Canada

May 13, 2013 10:53
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are not expected to issue a communiqué after meetings this weekend in Britain, a senior Canadian finance official said on Wednesday. The official told reporters it was possible that Britain would issue a chairman's statement after the meeting. (Reporting by Louise Egan and Randall Palmer; Writing by David Ljunggren; Editing by James Dalgleish)

G7 committed to 'nurturing' economic recovery: Britain

Agence France-PresseMay 11, 2013 09:45
The Group of Seven top economies is committed to "nurturing" world economic recovery, British finance minister George Osborne said Saturday after a meeting of the international body. "Overall, our discussions over the past two days have reaffirmed that there are still many challenges to securing sustainable global recovery, and we can't take it for granted," he told reporters. "But we are committed as the advanced economies in playing our part in nurturing that recovery and ensuring a lasting recovery so that we have prosperity in all our countries."

Possible radioactive traces found from North Korea nuclear test

April 23, 2013 05:46
By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Radioactive gases that could have come from North Korea's nuclear test in February have unexpectedly been detected, a global monitoring body said on Tuesday, possibly providing the first "smoking gun" evidence of the explosion. But the April 9 measurement - almost two months after Pyongyang said it had carried out the underground detonation - gave no indication of whether plutonium or highly enriched uranium was used, it said.

AFP 0500 GMT News Advisory

April 11, 2013 01:46
Duty Editor: Sarah Stewart Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US warns North Korea 'very close to a dangerous line' + US senators strike deal on gun-sale background checks + Syria conflict, N. Korea tensions dominate G8 meeting NKorea-SKorea-US-military,update-WRAP SEOUL The United States warn North Korea it is skating a "dangerous line" with an expected missile launch that could start a whole new cycle of escalating tensions in a region already on a hair-trigger.

AFP 0100 GMT News Advisory

April 10, 2013 21:45
Duty Editor: John Weaver Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US warns North Korea 'very close to a dangerous line' + US senators reach deal on gun-sale background checks + Obama worries Republicans, Democrats with new budget NKorea-SKorea-US-military,update-WRAP SEOUL The United States warns North Korea it is skating "very close to a dangerous line" ahead of an expected missile launch that could start a new cycle of escalating tensions in a region already on a hair-trigger.

Second meeting of TURKPA Commission on Social, Cultural and Humanitarian to be held

April 5, 2013 13:34
The second meeting of the TURKPA Commission on Social, Cultural and Humanitarian issues will be held in Ankara today. The organization told APA that the second meeting will be held in the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey. The report and recommendation on “The main issues of creating a common Turkic terminology fund” will be discussed in the meeting. Members of the parliaments of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kytgyzstan and Turkey, and staff members of the TURKPA International Secretariat will participate at the meeting.

N.Korea blast 'roughly congruent' with earlier tests: CTBTO

February 12, 2013 02:31
North Korea's blast was similar to previous nuclear tests, the Vienna-based monitoring agency CTBTO said early Tuesday, slamming it as a potential threat to international security. If confirmed as a nuclear test, it would represent "a clear threat to international peace and security...," the agency added in a statement. "The event shows explosion-like characteristics and its location is roughly congruent with the 2006 and 2009 DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) nuclear tests," the agency said.

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February 12, 2013 02:30
North Korea's blast was similar to earlier nuclear tests, the Vienna-based monitoring agency CTBTO said Monday. "If confirmed as a nuclear test, this act would constitute a clear threat to international peace and security...," the agency added in a statement. ssw/jj

Monitoring agency "confident" it will detect North Korea atomic test

January 30, 2013 13:02
* North Korea carried out nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 * Says it is ready for more after U.N. censure move * Agency has more than 270 monitoring stations worldwide VIENNA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The international agency that monitors nuclear tests said on Wednesday it would have no trouble detecting the seismological activity around any nuclear test by North Korea "within minutes" but it could take at least several days to confirm whether it was an atomic explosion.
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