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Friday, October 20, 2006

CNN Alerts: North Korea & Sudan

Underground war room is being retired.
10/17/06 02:01 PM, EDT
Dr. Strangelove would have a heart attack: America's vaunted underground war room deep inside this granite mountain is being retired. Not only that, but Russian military men have been inside the place.
Darfur violence spills into neighboring Chad
10/18/06 10:30 AM, EDT
Sudanese Janjaweed militia and Chadian rebels have attacked at least 10 villages in southeast Chad in the past two weeks, killing over 100 people and displacing more than 3,000, local and U.N. officials say.
Bush: 'Grave consequence' for North Korea nuke transfer
10/18/06 07:54 PM, EDT
President Bush said Wednesday the United States would stop North Korea from transferring nuclear weapons to Iran or al Qaeda and that the communist regime would then face "a grave consequence."
Sudan willing to discuss boosting AU force in Darfur
10/19/06 02:28 PM, EDT
The Sudanese government, which opposes deploying a U.N. peacekeeping force in the war-ravaged Darfur region, is willing to discuss the world body providing support for the African Union's troubled Darfur peacekeeper force, a senior government official said Thursday.
Report: Kim 'regrets' nuclear test
10/19/06 11:13 PM, EDT
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed regret about his country's nuclear test to a Chinese delegation and said Pyongyang would return to international nuclear talks if Washington backs off a campaign to financially isolate the country, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday.
N. Korea's nuclear scientists a mystery
10/20/06 02:46 AM, EDT
The scientists who have propelled North Korea's decades-long nuclear program are, like much else in the tightly controlled communist country, shrouded in a deep veil of secrecy.
U.S., China press NK on talks
10/20/06 04:32 AM, EDT
China and the United States urged North Korea Friday to break the stalemate and return to peaceful dialogue after the communist regime's surprise nuclear test earlier this month.

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