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S. Korea blocks activists from dropping propaganda leaflets in North 22 Oct 2012 | 03:31 pm
SEOUL — South Korean police on Monday blocked a civic group from sending pro-democracy leaflets across the border by balloon, an unexpected stand-down after North Korea threatened the activists with a...
NLCS 2012: San Francisco Giants and Ryan Vogelsong dominate St. Louis Cardinals to force Game 7 22 Oct 2012 | 08:13 am
SAN FRANCISCO — There had to be times, when he made his bed across the Pacific Ocean and wore the uniforms of the Hanshin Tigers or the Orix Buffaloes, in which Ryan Vogelsong couldn’t have envisioned...
Book World: Drawing on reality 22 Oct 2012 | 05:57 am
In March 1990, two men disguised as police officers stole 13 works of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — works collectively valued as high as $500 million, the largest art heist in hi...
BP set to sell its stake in Russian venture 22 Oct 2012 | 05:42 am
BP has agreed to sell its half of a troublesome but lucrative joint venture in Russia to the state-controlled firm Rosneft for $26 billion to $28 billion in cash and stock, an individual familiar with...
In killer’s mind, counselor found the roots of a new way to treat troubled youth 22 Oct 2012 | 05:33 am
Jack Apsche is one of the few people in history happy to have crossed paths with a serial killer. That was Gary Heidnik, who tortured six women and killed two, and was one of the inspirations for the...
Internet anti-censorship tools are being overwhelmed by demand 22 Oct 2012 | 05:26 am
U.S.-funded programs to beat back online censorship are increasingly finding a ready audience in repressive countries, with more than 1 million people a day using online tools to get past extensive bl...
Obama’s not-so-hidden second-term agenda 22 Oct 2012 | 04:52 am
Everywhere you turn, President Obama is accused of not offering a clear second-term agenda. It’s not surprising that Republicans say it, but you also hear it from quarters sympathetic to the president...
GM is alive in Defiance, Ohio. But Obama’s hopes here may not be. 22 Oct 2012 | 04:08 am
For more than 50 years, the economic fate of this tiny town in northwest Ohio has been inextricably linked to the health of General Motors, its largest employer. And so when two local lawyers put up ...
Editorial Board: The final debate 22 Oct 2012 | 03:55 am
LISTENING TO the last presidential debate, you’d think the only foreign policy issues President Obama and Mitt Romney have to discuss is when the word “terror” was first used to describe the attack on...
Around the world, perceptions of Obama-Romney contest lag reality 22 Oct 2012 | 03:35 am
BERLIN — As President Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for a Monday debate on foreign policy and polls show the Republican challenger with a real chance of victory in two weeks, many observers abroad are...
