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January 8, 2009 Thursday
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SEOUL - SOUTH Korean farmers urged their government on Thursday to resume regular food aid to North Korea as they prepared to send their own rice shipment to the impoverished neighbor.

 
Pakistan motorcycle bombing

QUETTA (Pakistan) - ONE civilian was killed and eight people were injured when a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded Thursday near a security forces vehicle in remote southwest Pakistan, officials said.

Nepal reinstates priests

KATHMANDU - NEPAL'S Maoist prime minister has temporarily reinstated a group of sacked Indian priests at the Himalayan nation's holiest Hindu shrine after protests forced riot police to intervene.

Internet pundit nabbed

SEOUL - SOUTH Korean prosecution authorities said Thursday they had arrested a popular Internet pundit on charges of spreading 'groundless' allegations that the country's currency, the won, was imperiled.

   
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