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Koreas agree to hold talks on reopening complex

By SAM KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea on Thursday agreed to hold talks on reopening a jointly run factory complex and other cross-border issues, after months of deteriorating relations and a day before a U.S.-China summit in which the North is expected to be a

China frustration with NKorea offers hope for US

By MATTHEW PENNINGTONAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - China's growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding discussions between Washington and Beijing about what to do if the government in Pyongyang

Koreas agree to hold talks on reopening complex

By SAM KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea on Thursday agreed to hold talks on reopening a jointly run factory complex and other cross-border issues, after months of deteriorating relations and a day before a U.S.-China summit in which the North is expected to be a

UK, French claims put Obama in tough spot on Syria

By BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is facing a new quandary from a pair of assertive allies, France and Britain, that suggest his stated "red line" for more forceful U.S. action in the Syrian civil war has been crossed with solid evidence of chemical weapons