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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea requested a shipment of rice, cement and heavy equipment days after South Korea offered relief aid to its communist neighbour to help it recover from recent flooding, the Unification Ministry said Tuesday. An overflowing river last month swamped farmland, hou... Monday , September 06, 2010
HONG KONG - A Philippine legislator who was allegedly caught with cocaine at the Hong Kong airport in July asked a court Tuesday for more time to consider his plea on drug trafficking charges. Hong Kong District Judge Kevin Browne agreed to adjourn the case of Philippine Rep. Ronald Singson ... Monday , September 06, 2010
SUKKUR, Pakistan - As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, something new is rising: suspicions and rumours that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property and inundate the villages and fields of millions of poor Pakistanis. The claims... Monday , September 06, 2010 Family of copper heiress Huguette Clark seeks guardian NEW YORK, N.Y. - Two nieces and a nephew of the reclusive heiress of a Montana copper fortune are asking a Manhattan court to appoint a guardian to oversee the 104-year-old woman’s personal and financial affairs. The petition filed Friday also asks the court to bar Huguette Clark’s attorney ... Monday , September 06, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper Monday and unfurled an American flag at the top. Police told KCBS radio that the man was veteran skyscraper climber Dan Goodwin. The 54-year-old Lake Tahoe resident’s other climbing ... Monday , September 06, 2010
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