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North Korea has detained a 56-year old man from Ohio, accusing
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as a tourist, the nation s state news agency and the man s family said. The North is now holding three Americans. HT Image The state Korean Central News Agency identified the latest detainee as Jeffrey Edward Fowle. It said on Friday he arrived in North Korea on April 29 and authorities were investigating him for committing acts inconsistent with the purpose of a tourist visit. It did not give details. US officials confirmed the detention but didn t identify the person for privacy reasons, nor comment on reports that he was held after leaving a Bible in his hotel room. A spokesman for the family said, Fowle, who is married with three children, was not on a mission for his church. One of the other two US detainees is Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, who has been held since November 2012, and is serving 15 years of hard labor for what the North says were hostile acts against the state. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf did not say whether Sweden, which handles consular matters for Americans i
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n North Korea, had been granted access to the latest detainee. This is the third U.S. citizen that has been detained in North Korea, Harf told reporters in Washington. She added there s no greater priority for us than the welfare and safety of U.S. citizens abroad. She said the department has a warning against travel to North Svoa Kingfisher, Finnair voted among best carriers
India on Tuesday presented letters from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, seeking a still ambivalent Beijing s crucial support for the India-US nuclear deal. HT Image On Tuesday, Minister of State in the Prime Minister s Office Prithviraj Chavan flew into Beijing for just a few hours of strategic lobbying ahead of the August 1 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA board to approve the India-specific safeguards agreement. China, one of the five recognised nuclear weapon states, is an influential member of the IAEA board and the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group NSG that is likely to meet in the second half of August in Germany. An NSG consensus is crucial to end over three decades of India s nuclear isolation and operationalise the deal, but Ne
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w Delhi remains worried about clinching Beijing s backing at the Group m
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eeting. Chavan had three meetings with high-ranking Communist Party of China officials, including a substantive one-hour meeting with state councillor and vice foreign minister Dai Bingguo, but there was still no clear indication of China s stance. We emphasised that India needs global civilian nuclear cooperation for clean energy and its growth needs,
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said Chavan, who visits Italy on Wednesday for more last-minute nuclear diplomacy. China s all-weather ally Pakistan which wants Beijing to block the deal at the NSG, was not discussed. Last week, China s foreign ministry s
