Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:25
Australia's government faces a mounting crisis after Kevin Rudd, the country's foreign minister, said he was resigning from his post over a widening rift with Julia Gillard, the prime minister.
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Australia's government faces a mounting crisis after Kevin Rudd, the country's foreign minister, said he was resigning from his post over a widening rift with Julia Gillard, the prime minister.

An explosion at a steel plant in northeastern China has killed at least 10 people and injured another 17, a company official has said, in the latest industrial accident to hit the world’s second largest economy.

South Korea has conducted live-fire military drills near the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's threat to attack.

Authorities in Thailand are looking for two more suspects in an apparent plot to bomb Israeli targets there, after announcing that three men already arrested had been seen cavorting with prostitutes on a beach resort.

Police in Thailand say three Iranian nationals held in connection with a bomb blast in the Thai capital on Tuesday were plotting to attack Israeli diplomats.

Smiling and saluting, North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-un, has reviewed a parade of thousands of soldiers who vowed to protect him with their lives as the communist country commemorated the 70th birthday of his late father, Kim Jong-il.

Two Iranians have been arrested and charged with plotting a bomb attack in Bangkok, according to Thailand's foreign minister.

A senior United States envoy will hold talks next week in Beijing with North Korea, resuming a dialogue put on hold last year by the death of leader Kim Jong-il, the officials in Washington have said.

An Iranian man carrying grenades has blown off his own legs and wounded four civilians after multiple blasts in a busy Bangkok neighbourhood, Thai officials say.

The main suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings, Umar Patek, has gone on trial in an Indonesian court where he faces multiple charges, including premeditated murder, for the deadly attacks.
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