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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - President Kim Dae-jung said Tuesday he was ``shocked'' by Japan's refusal to revise its controversial history textbooks and warned that the issue could imperil ties between the two countries.

SEATTLE (AP) - Mayor Paul Schell walked out of a hospital on Sunday smiling and with sunglasses covering a black eye, one day after an activist protesting the police killing of a black man struck him with a megaphone.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - President Kim Dae-jung refused to meet a high-level Japanese delegation Monday in a show of anger over Tokyo's refusal to revise history textbooks that critics say whitewash Japan's wartime atrocities.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - President Kim Dae-jung refused to meet a high-level Japanese delegation Monday in a show of anger over Tokyo's refusal to revise history textbooks that critics say whitewash Japan's wartime atrocities.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Angered by Japan's refusal to revise controversial history textbooks, South Korea on Thursday ended military exchanges and canceled a planned visit to Tokyo by a top defense official.

TOKYO (AP) - As hundreds of candidates officially kicked off campaigns Thursday for parliamentary elections, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi began stumping in hopes of converting his soaring popularity into a landslide victory for his...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashed in southeastern Turkey Wednesday as it was heading toward northern Iraq to patrol a no-fly zone, the U.S. military said. The pilot was rescued.

By The Associated Press Quebec to Offer Mass Vaccinations Against Meningitis QUEBEC (AP) - Free vaccinations against meningitis will be offered to about 1.7 million young Quebecers because health officials fear that a deadlier strain of the...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Europe's top finance officials will make their first assessment Friday of the economic impact of last week's terror attacks in the United States.

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A prominent human rights lawyer who has defended Zapatista sympathizers was killed after receiving several death threats, and a note left with her body warned that the same could happen to others, Mexico City's attorney general...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - India has asked its neighbor and rival, Pakistan, to take action against Islamic militants responsible for terrorist activities in the contested region of Kashmir, officials said Tuesday.

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian space designer Vasily Mishin, who spearheaded the botched Soviet effort to reach the moon before the United States, has died in Moscow at the age of 84.

Without him, we can do nothing.