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HuaweiSEOUL, South Korea - President Barack Obama’s envoy for North Korea sought to calm fears of war on the Korean peninsula, saying Wednesday that Washington and Seoul are working on ways to deal with the North in the wake of a deadly shelling of a front-line island.
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SEOUL - Japanese and South Korean defence ministers will meet next week in Seoul to discuss boosting military ties in the wake of deadly attacks from North Korea, a South Korean official said on Tuesday.
KABUL - A bomb placed in a bag exploded on a road in downtown Kabul on Tuesday, wounding two civilians and an Afghan policeman, authorities said, in a relatively rare attack in the capital.
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