May 19, 2013
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Associated Press South Korean vehicles return home while being escorted by a military vehicle upon their arrival at the customs office near the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, on Wednesday.
Talk of missile test not consuming city
PYONGYANG, North Korea — As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was stran...
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Korean capital shows calm
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Scores of North Koreans of all ages planted trees as part of a forestation campaign — armed with shovels, not guns. In the evening, women in traditional dress danced in the...
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30 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 Two North Korean men working for ShinWon, a South Korean clothing maker, prepare garments for production at a factory on Sept. 21 in Kaesong, North Korea. North Korea says it will recall 51,000 North Korean workers and suspend operations at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of co-operation with its southern rival.
Managers: North Koreans not working at jointly run factory
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean workers didn’t show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining majo...
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Blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15
DAMASCUS, Syria — A suicide car bomber struck Monday in the financial heart of Syria’s capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and incinerating cars and trees in the n...
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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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