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Family, Friends 'Overjoyed' as Reporters Leave N. Korea

SACRAMENTO – Friends and family of two California journalists were relieved and excited Tuesday after the pair were pardoned by North Korea and released to former President Bill Clinton. But they weren’t ready to start the celebration until Laura Ling and Euna Lee landed in the United States. “I’m just …

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Karzai Widens Lead Over Top Challenger in Afghan Election

KABUL – President Hamid Karzai extended his lead over his top challenger in Afghanistan’s presidential election, new vote results showed Wednesday, but remains short of the 50 percent threshold that would allow him to avoid a two-man runoff. Afghan election officials are slowly releasing results from last week’s presidential election, …

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Lead Poisoning Sickens 600 Kids in China

BEIJING – The number of children sickened from lead poisoning has risen to more than 600 in a northern Chinese province where authorities shut a smelter earlier this week thought to have caused the contamination, state media reported. More than 80 percent of the 731 children living in the two …

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