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Associated Press Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meets with friend and political ally President Ronald Reagan during a visit to the White House on Feb. 20, 1985, in Washington. Thatcher, who led Britain for 11 years, died of a stroke Monday morning.
Former prime minister Thatcher dies at age 87
LONDON — Love her or loathe her, one thing’s beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. The Iron Lady, who ruled for 11 remarkable years, imposed her will on a fractious, rundown nat...
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Associated Press Japan Self-Defense Force members work near a unit of Patriot missile launchers deployed at Defense Ministry in Tokyo early Tuesday. Japan has deployed missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo as a precaution against a possible North Korean ballistic missile tests.
Risks temper Korea war tensions
TOKYO — As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, one thing remains certain: All sides have good reason to avoid an all-out war. The last one, six decades ago, killed an estimated 4 million people....
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North Korea nukes make Japan nervous
TOKYO — It’s easy to write off North Korea’s threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: it has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile that could re...
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Associated Press A tear gas canister is fired by Egyptian riot police into the compound of the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral after the funeral of four Christians killed in sectarian clashes near Cairo on Sunday. Attacks against Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's estimated 90 million people, have increased since President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood came to power last year.
After violence, Egyptian opposition presses Morsi
CAIRO — After Egypt’s worst sectarian violence in months left seven dead the past two days, Egypt’s leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday called on the Islamist president to make se...
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Japan analysts say new nuclear safety too lax
TOKYO — Analysts who investigated Japan’s nuclear crisis said Monday that government oversight of the crippled plant’s operator is still too lax, as public concern has grown over recent safety pro...
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Associated Press Holocaust survivors and their relatives hold flowers during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday. Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered by German Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust in World War II.
Israel honors Nazi Holocaust victims
JERUSALEM — Among the crowds marking Israel’s annual Holocaust remembrance day at the Yad Vashem memorial Monday was a retired American Air Force colonel from San Francisco who came to honor a fami...
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Paper: Police detain reporters over story
LAGOS, Nigeria — Two journalists were detained Monday by police after their newspaper published a story about supposed plans by the nation’s presidency to disrupt opposition parties and potentially...
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30 Pakistani soldiers killed in northwest valley
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Four days of fierce fighting in northwestern Pakistan left 30 soldiers and nearly 100 militants dead as the army attempted to wrestle control of a remote, mountainous valley fr...
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Associated Press South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence at sunset near the border village of Panmunjom Sunday in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang.
S. Korea: North may test missile
SEOUL, South Korea — A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon ...
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Associated Press A North Korean worker assembles cables at the GS Bucheon factory Sept. 12, 2012 in Kaesong, North Korea.
Made in Korea
There is a North Korean factory with no portraits of the country’s late leaders on the walls, no North Korean flags, no hand-painted posters screaming party slogans. Everything from the tissues to ...
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