Seoul: North Korea sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor on Thursday for crimes against the state, prompting a US call for his amnesty in hopes of avoiding him becoming a bargaining chip between the two countries.
Kenneth Bae, 44, was born in South Korea but is a naturalized US citizen and studied psychology for two years at the University of Oregon. His sentencing comes after two months of saber-rattling that saw North Korea threaten the United States and South Korea with nuclear war.
Pyongyang has previously tried to use American prisoners as negotiation assets in talks with Washington. A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Washington was not currently looking for an envoy to try to secure Bae's release as it has sometimes done.
The official said the United States has sought in recent years to break out of a pattern of having to resolve repeated crises with North Korea through transactional deals....
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Maricopa: An Arizona woman who knew she couldn't compete head on with her neighbour's elaborate Christmas light display is attracting attention for her response. Using red and green lights, Kristina Green of Maricopa spelled out the word "ditto" and made an arrow pointing toward her neighbor's home. KNXV-TV reports that Green's display is made of around 600 lights. Her neighbour's set-up has about 16,000 colorful lights. Green has created a...
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Portland: A gunman opened fire in a suburban Portland shopping mall on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another before apparently killing himself as people were doing their Christmas shopping, authorities said. Witnesses described a scene of chaos and disbelief as the gunman wearing some sort of camouflage outfit and what looked like a hockey mask fired rounds from a military-style rifle near the food court at Clackamas Town Center....
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11:16 AM, May 16, 2012
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Washington: Police in several US cities confronted Occupy protests aimed and shutting down port facilities as part of a nationwide day of protest in the aftermath of efforts to clear demonstrators against corporate greed from public parks. Several arrests were made, while ports reported only minor hindrances on Monday in protest against efforts by cities across the country - including New York, Boston and Oakland - to clear the Occupy...
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California The warnings traveled quickly across the Pacific in the middle of the night as a 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan spawned a deadly tsunami, and it was racing east on Friday as fast as a jetliner. Sirens blared in Hawaii. The West Coast pulled back from the shoreline, fearing the worst. People were warned to stay away from the beaches. Fishermen took their boats out to sea and safety. The...
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