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US envoy
on mission to save N. Korea pact
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SEOUL: US negotiator Christopher Hill arrived in North Korea on
Wednesday amid reports he will offer the secretive communist state a
face-saving compromise to try to save a nuclear disarmament deal.
Hill crossed the heavily
fortified inter-Korean border at the truce village of Panmunjom
around 11 a.m. (0200 GMT), the US military said.
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US Navy plays
waiting game with Somali pirates
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MOGADISHU: The US Navy on
Wednesday piled pressure on Somali pirates holding out for a
$20-million ransom for a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks and
other arms.
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Risks of religious
devotion in India
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JODHPUR, India: A collapsed wall,
rumors of a bomb, coconut milk spilled by devotees; the checklist
grew Wednesday of possible catalysts for a stampede at a Hindu
temple in India that left 149 dead.
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McCain ad slams
Obama as ‘hypocrite’
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WASHINGTON: Republican White
House hopeful John McCain Tuesday released an ad slamming rival
Barack Obama as a “hypocrite,” drawing an immediate rebuke from
the Democrat’s campaign...
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Japan’s
opposition vows alternative as polls loom
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TOKYO: Japan’s opposition
leader Ichiro Ozawa presented himself Wednesday as the prime
minister in waiting, pledging to slash wasteful spending and focus
on people’s needs if his bloc wins looming elections.
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MOSCOW: Five Russian children
were killed Wednesday when a staircase collapsed in a school near
the Ural Mountains city of Orenburg, news agencies reported,...
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