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China urged ally North Korea to improve its strained ties with longtime foes the United States and South Korea, state media reported Monday, as U.S. and North Korean diplomats prepared to talk about restarting negotiations on Pyongyang’s nuclear programs.
On a visit to North Korea, Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang told North Korean Premier Choe Yong […]

British lawmaker Tom Watson grilled News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch about covert surveillance techniques by company employees as News Corp. held its first shareholders meeting following a phone-hacking scandal.
More than 100 people demonstrated Friday outside the lot of News Corp.’s Fox Studios.
Watson asked Murdoch whether he was aware that a person who had left prison […]

British lawmaker Tom Watson plans to detail new findings of covert surveillance techniques employed by News Corp. that go “beyond phone hacking.”
Watson said the revelations planned at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Friday “will leave the company liable to civil liability but also huge reputational harm.”
News Corp. officials declined to comment.
Watson has spearheaded a 2 […]

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Attacks aimed at Iraqi police, including two in which assailants slammed explosives-packed cars into police stations, killed 25 people Wednesday and maimed dozens in the worst violence in the capital since August.
Less than three months before American troops are to leave Iraq, the blasts were a brutal example of the challenges Iraqi security forces will […]

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President Barack Obama is on the road selling his jobs plan _ and his re-election hopes _ to plugged-in networkers in Silicon Valley and around the country.
He was to appear Monday at a town hall-style event hosted by the career-focused social networking site LinkedIn to pitch his nearly $450 billion jobs proposal as he travels […]

A Spanish union official says Madrid teachers are staying off the job in massive numbers on the second day of a strike over staff cuts.
Colleagues in the northwest region of Galicia also went on strike.
Virginia Fernandez of the UGT union says official numbers for Madrid are not in but it seems Wednesday’s strike is about […]

Oak trees and sparkling waterfalls have replaced the shards and smoke and bodies. Ten years after the attacks that changed American life, the World Trade Center site is a memorial, and the need to mourn is being eclipsed by the need to honor the memories of the nearly 3,000 people killed.
Children of those lost, some […]