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China: Don't Take N. Korea to Council

SEOUL, South Korea – A top Chinese envoy to South Korea said Friday it wasn’t the right time to discuss referring the North Korean nuclear issue to the U.N. Security Council (search) — a move Pyongyang (search) has condemned would be tantamount to a declaration of war. “The important issue …

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Vatican Offers Pope's E-Mail Address

VATICAN CITY – Got a prayer or a problem for the new pope? Now you can e-mail him. Showing that Pope Benedict XVI (search) intends to follow in the footsteps of John Paul II’s multimedia ministry, the Vatican on Thursday modified its Web site so that users who click on …

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Booby-Trap Bomb Kills 12 Near Kirkuk

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Insurgents set off a series of explosions Wednesday, killing 12 police officers near Kirkuk and hitting a Defense Department convoy as a senior American official visited the capital, the U.S. military and Iraqi police said. Al-Jazeera television broadcast what it said was video of kidnapped American. The …

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