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A South Korean-based coalition, acting on behalf of 150 refugees, is pushing the international court at The Hague to charge Kim Jong Il. It presents the refugees' accounts of the brutal regime. Lee Kyung-hee took a deep breath Thursday, and then she recounted the nightmare when her newborn was killed before her eyes in a North Korean prison.
North Korea is making an unlikely foray into designer denim as the "Noko Jeans" label is launched in Sweden.
North Koreans set piles of old bills alight in anger over their government's surprise move to redenominate the national currency, a report said, a sign of growing frustration among citizens left with hoards of worthless bills.
Millions of football fans around the globe will be glued to their television screens on Friday when the draw for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is made in Cape Town.
When I read Gabrielle Bedeian's Dec. 2 letter "Acting against consumerism valuable in fighting world ills," I was saddened to see a Penn State student show such a lack of basic understanding of how the world works.
U.S. Ambassador John Roos urged a quick resolution Friday of a dispute over the relocation of a U.S. Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa that is straining bilateral ties and raising tension within Japan's...
MEAD – A five-year review of the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant is finally complete.
Having a nuclear weapon fall into the wrong hands is one of those cataclysmic possibilities that ranks up there with global warming's worst-case scenario or a large meteor on a collision course with Earth.
Having a nuclear weapon fall into the wrong hands is one of those cataclysmic possibilities that ranks up there with global warming's worst-case scenario or having a large meteor on a collision course with Earth.
A pro-Pyongyang newspaper confirmed on Friday the secretive North has revalued its currency, a move analysts said was aimed at curtailing a burgeoning market economy and clamping down on merchants.
Alvin E. Goerge, 86, of Fowler, died Nov. 28, 2009. Born Aug. 1, 1923, Alvin was the first son of Edward and Rose (Simon) Goerge. He attended Sage Country School and Most Holy Trinity School. A life-long resident of Fowler, Alvin married Joyce Martin on Sept. 26, 1953. Besides farming he retired from Sealed Power after 33 years of service in 1988. He loved to take plane rides, had a good sense ...
It's beginning to look a lot like the winter of President Barack Obama's discontent. Among other problems, his slow and steady slide in opinion polls is matching the nation's slow and steady rise in joblessness. That makes Democrats in Congress fearful of their own potential joblessness. Among other complaints, critics have badgered him in recent weeks for "dithering" too long on Afghanistan ...
The eyes of the world turn to Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday, as the star-studded draw for the 2010 World Cup gets under way at noon EST. The ceremony, during which 32...
A senior U.S. delegation will travel to North Korea next week for talks aimed at restarting nuclear- disarmament negotiations.
A South Korean-based coalition, acting on behalf of 150 refugees, is pushing the international court at The Hague to charge Kim Jong Il. It presents the refugees' accounts of the brutal regime. Lee Kyung-hee took a deep breath Thursday, and then she recounted the nightmare when her newborn was killed before her eyes in a North Korean prison.
WASHINGTON - On Nov. 11, 1918, Frank Woodruff Buckles was one of more than 4 million American soldiers who was relieved to hear that the first world war was over. In the nine decades since then, Buckles, 108, has seen national memorials dedicated for World War II, Vietnam and other 20th century wars and conflicts - but World War I has been left ou.
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