North Korea releases U.S. Christian activist The Star | BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. religious activist taken captive by North Korea in December arrived in China on Saturday and will next fly back to the United States, an official with the U.S. embassy in Beijing said. | Robert Park's release clears an obstacle between North Korea and the United States, ...
Mexican mayor fears massacre of 16 was random The News & Observer | CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- The mayor of a violent Mexican border city said Monday he fears a shooting that killed 16 people in a working class neighborhood may have been random because many of the victims were "good kids" with no apparent ties to drug gangs. | The dead included at least eight teenag...
North Korea releases U.S. Christian activist The Star | BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. religious activist taken captive by North Korea in December arrived in China on Saturday and will next fly back to the United States, an official with the U.S. embassy in Beijing said. | Robert Park's release clears an ob...
Report: Chinese envoy to visit North Korea The News & Observer | SEOUL, South Korea -- A senior Chinese official is traveling to North Korea on Saturday, a news report said, in what is seen as a mission to jump-start stalled international talks on ending its nuclear weapons programs. | Wang Jiarui, head of the l...
Report: US Missionary Freed From N. Korea CBS News Man, 28, Has Been Held in Reclusive Country Since Entering Country Illegally on Christmas | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | In this photo taken on Dec. 9, 2009, and released from Freedom and Life for All North Koreans, U.S. missionary Rober...
North Korea to Free American Missionary CBS News Country Announced it Would Release Robert Park, Who Was Detained for Illegally Crossing Border from China | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | In this photo taken on Dec. 9, 2009, and released from Freedom and Life for All North Koreans, U.S. ...
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UN official says North Korea increasing punishment The Boston Globe | SEOUL, South Korea-North Korea is meting out harsher punishment to citizens who try to flee the country, a sign that overall human rights conditions remain dire in the communist ...
Judge denies feng shui master Wang fortune The News & Observer | HONG KONG -- A bartender-turned-fortune teller who had an affair with the pig-tailed Hong Kong tycoon who was Asia's richest woman lost his bid for her multibillion-dollar estate Tuesday when a court deemed his will a forgery. | The legal battle ov...
China launches emergency sweep for tainted milk The News & Observer | BEIJING -- China has launched a 10-day emergency crackdown on tainted milk products after several were found creeping back onto the market despite a massive scandal that sickened hundreds of thousands of children in 2008. | No one knows how many ta...
SKorea rules out any reward for summit with NKorea The News & Observer | SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's president Tuesday ruled out giving North Korean leader Kim Jong Il a reward for staging any future summit with Seoul. | President Lee Myung-bak recently raised the possibility of an inter-Korean summit sometime t...
Chinese envoy arrives in North Korea Breitbart | South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan, right, talks with B. Lynn Pasc... | South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan, right, shakes hands with B.... | SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A senior Chinese official arrived in North Korea on Saturday in what is seen as a mission to jump-start stalled international talks on ending the reclusive state's...
Kyodo news summary -6-+ Breitbart TOKYO, Feb. 8 (AP) - (Kyodo)—---------- Hatoyama approves Ozawa's remaining as DPJ's No. 2 | TOKYO - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who is also president of the Democratic Party of Japan, said Monday he approved DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's decision to remain in the ruling party's No. 2 post despite a fund scandal for which he acknowle...
