Cattle prod greets Korean asylum seekers
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Beijing - A group of North Korean men, women and children seeking asylum helped each another climb a wall into the South Korean consulate grounds in Beijing on Monday, but most were caught by Chinese guards or fled.
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OTTAWA - Forty-four North Koreans who sought asylum at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing in September have been taken to a safe third country, the Canadian government said.
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South Korea's President Roh Moo-Hyun received a royal welcome in Britain, kicking off a three-nation European tour aimed at improving trade relations and political cooperation.
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North Korea has urged the U.N. refugee  agency and the Red Cross to help stop the exodus of its  citizens to South Korea after the secret airlift of some 460  North Koreans to Seoul in July, a North Korean newspaper said.
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South Korea, once the world's   third-largest export market for American beef, said on Friday   it would open its doors again to U.S. beef and end a three-year   ban imposed because of mad cow disease.
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MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea  - Neither war, armed troops or befuddled border guards could stop South Korean dog sled teams from going to North Korea and mushing on Sunday where none of them have mushed before.
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Supporters slaughtered a bull and sang praise songs when south Sudan leader John Garang arrived in his southern bastion on Saturday for the first time since a peace accord ended Africa's longest-running civil war.
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FAIRFIELD, Ohio  - When 300 U.S. immigration agents surrounded the chicken processing plant where Danny Alvarez-Reyes works, he did the only thing he could think of: he gave his coat to a scared friend determined to hide in the walk-in freezer.
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South Korea, once the world's  third-largest export market for American beef, said on Friday  it would open its doors again to U.S. beef and end a three-year  ban imposed because of mad cow disease.
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The U.S. ambassador was among customers thronging a major Japanese fast-food chain Monday to savor the return of a popular rice dish topped with American beef that was off the menu for more than two years due to mad cow disease fears.
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A group of 29 people identifying themselves as North Koreans have sought asylum in a South Korean school in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.  - The Bush administration must  restore U.S. beef exports to Japan and South Korea before it  opens the border to Canadian cattle, the National Cattlemen's  Beef Association said, shifting away from calling on the United  States to set a good example on beef trade for nations dealing  with mad cow disease.
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BEIJING  - As many as 29 North Koreans entered a South Korean school in Beijing on Friday and requested asylum, adding to a surge in large-scale defections from the communist nation.
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BEIJING (CP) - China said Thursday it wants the Canadian Embassy to hand over 44 people thought to be North Korean asylum-seekers who climbed over a spiked fence onto embassy grounds.
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A South Korean delegation arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday to try to secure the release of 23 Koreans held hostage by Taliban guerrillas, a South Korean embassy official said.
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43 North Korean refugees entered the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, demanding passage to South Korea. This was the largest number of North Korean defectors to enter a foreign legation ever.
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Cattle worriers to explain bovine girl-on-girl